In Brief: Dime-TradeCard Marketing Alliance

NEW YORK — Dime Savings Bank has an agreement that will let it market TradeCard Inc.’s cross-border trading system to the bank’s small-business customers.

TradeCard, a four-year-old company based in New York, lets businesses initiate, conduct, and settle international trades online.

Lawrence J. Toal, chief executive officer of Dime, said, “Smaller business have been hampered in their cross-border trading opportunities because of both the costs and the inattention of international trading banks.”

TradeCard has similar agreements with FleetBoston Financial and Comerica Inc.

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