Gräfeling/Munich, January 25, 2006. The Munich-based securities trading
company MWB has received the license to act as an issuing house within the
meaning of section 1 (1) clause 2 no. 10 of the Kreditwesengesetz (KWG -
German Banking Act) from the Bundesanstalt für
Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin - Federal Financial Supervisory
Authority). This authorizes the company to provide a large number of
banking services for all aspects of capital markets business.

MWB also strengthened its capital markets team at the start of the new
year. The Managing Board believes that this division, which is benefiting
from the resurgence of the German IPO market, offers excellent
opportunities to further develop the company and to make it more
independent of its core specialist business.

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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 and institutional sales. 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