Gräfelfing/Munich, January 26, 2006. MWB Wertpapierhandelshaus AG intends
to acquire a 100% interest in Berlin-based C.J. Diederich
Wertpapierhandelsgesellschaft mbH. The acquisition, which is to be
retroactive as of January 1, 2006, is still subject to the approval of
MWB's Supervisory Board.

Diederich GmbH is a Berlin-based specialist company focusing on
fixed-income securities. It currently supports arround 1,000 order books in
the segments Amtlicher Handel (official trading), Geregelter Markt
(regulated market) and Freiverkehr (OTC). To date, the company's sole
shareholder has been the former official exchange broker Claus Jürgen
Diederich, who is active at the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchange since 1969.

This step reinforces MWB AG's specialist business, and allows it to enter
the fixed-income trading/fixed-income order-book management segment.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Information and Explaination of the Issuer to this News:

MWB AG (www.mwb.de) has been listed since April 1999 and has been admitted
to Deutsche Börse AG"s Prime Standard Segment since January 1, 2003. MWB"s
core business is being a specialist and proprietary trader for foreign
stocks, supplemented by divisions for order execution for financial
institutions, designated sponsoring, institutional sales and capital
marktes business. Furthermore MWB AG is active in the private asset
management business with MWB Baden, holding a 60 percent interest in this
company. The company has applications on the stock exchanges in Munich,
Berlin, Frankfurt, Duesseldorf, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

Contact:
MWB Wertpapierhandelshaus AG
Thomas Posovatz
Rottenbucher Straße 28
82166 Gräfelfing
Tel.: 089/85 85 2-500
Fax: 089/85 85 2-505
E-Mail: investor-relations@mwb.de