BOCA RATON, Fla., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ELX Electronic Liquidity Exchange, the new fully electronic futures exchange, announced that Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and provider of trading systems, is the first ISV committed to provide connectivity to the new futures exchange, supporting access to the exchange for a wide range of market participants.
ELX welcomes RTS's capability of providing global institutions with access from the exchange's first day of trading. In combination with eSpeed's electronic trading system, ELX expects that RTS's suite of products will help create liquidity and lower trading costs for market participants.
RTS offers access through its Realtime Trading Desktop (RTD) portfolio including RTD Application Programming Interface (RTD-API), RTD front-end trading system, and RTD Tango, its high performance algorithmic trading system. RTS plans to initiate connectivity to the new exchange's futures products when the exchange commences operations this year.
Steffen Gemunden, Co-CEO of RTS said, "RTS looks forward to working closely with the founding members of the new exchange and other participants in order to contribute to providing unparalleled trading opportunities in the futures marketplace."
About ELX
ELX Electronic Liquidity Exchange was established by 12 leading financial institutions as a competitive alternative serving global futures market participants. The founding firms include Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Citadel, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, eSpeed, GETCO, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, PEAK6 and The Royal Bank of Scotland. US Treasury futures are expected to be the first product launched by the exchange in 2008, with additional products anticipated thereafter. eSpeed is the technology provider for ELX, which will leverage eSpeed's electronic trading system to provide high-quality execution and market leading execution speeds.
About RTS Realtime Systems Group:
RTS is a leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New York, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, and distribution partners in Greece, India, Italy and Japan. Founded in 1992, RTS is a pioneer in the design and creation of high performance, functionally rich, multi-asset electronic trading software, with thousands of user connections to more than 85 exchanges and liquidity pools globally through its deployed trading screens and application programming interfaces (APIs). RTS' software suite includes the RTD Realtime Trading Desktop with further add-on modules, the Java-based distributable front end eRTD, as well as the automated algorithmic trading platform RTD Tango, with its full back-testing capabilities. Through its data centers, the firm provides flexible and high-speed connectivity options, state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and professional application services provider (ASP) solutions -- True DMA (True Direct Market Access). RTS' client list includes many of the world's leading banks, brokers, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), hedge funds, market makers, investment firms, day trading companies, introducing brokers, exchanges and other market participants. Please visit http://www.rtsgroup.net/. For more information, please contact: globalsales@rtsgroup.net.
ELX Electronic Liquidity Exchange
