RTS Realtime And Shinyoung In Korean Connectivity

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading trading solutions provider, and Shinyoung Securities Company Ltd., a leading brokerage firm in Korea, announced today that they have signed an agreement to provide direct market access (DMA) to the Korea Exchange, the third largest derivatives exchange globally by volume. Under the agreement, RTS is able to offer its clients access to the KOSPI index options, the leading exchange-traded derivative contract by volume, as well as KOSPI 200 index futures and the underlying cash markets.

Henk Huitema, RTS Managing Director, Asia Pacific, said: "We have been steadily increasing our connectivity and presence in Asia as our clients' interest in the region continues to grow. We are especially pleased to join with Shinyoung in offering our clients high-speed, low latency access to the rapidly growing Korea Exchange and its enormously popular futures and options contracts. We look forward to offering more connectivity and our RTD Tango algorithmic trading solution throughout the Asia Pacific region."

Said Ike Lee, Head of Sales, Shinyoung Securities: "We believe that RTS is one of the most efficient and fastest channels for non-Kospi traders to get into the Korean market. We strive to provide our customers with the best solutions to help them maintain their competitive edge."

RTS clients using the RTD Realtime Trading Desktop can price, trade and quote on over 100 exchanges worldwide. RTD Tango is an event-based automated algorithmic trading system, enabling users to code, deploy and test thousands of trading strategies simultaneously. Since its inception in 2005, RTD Tango has been widely used by the brokerage and proprietary trading community across the globe.

RTS Realtime System Connectivity to FEX

RTS Realtime Systems Group, has committed to provide connectivity to the Financial & Energy Exchange (FEX).

The Financial & Energy Exchange (FEX) is building a world class exchange platform, focused on developing a suite of services for the Asian derivative markets. The benchmark FEX products will include traditional Asian energy products such as crude oil and thermal coal.

The offering will also extend to emerging energy and environmental products to help service existing and new liquidity pools. The FEX exchange traded futures market will utilise OMX technology, the premium matching engine technology supplier to world exchanges. The Clearing Corporation of Chicago, the world's largest independent clearing house, will provide clearing services.

Henk Huitema, Managing Director, Asia Pacific for RTS, said: "RTS is pleased to provide access to a new trading venue. Our ongoing connectivity enhancements offer our customers the ability to continually tap into new trading opportunities throughout the world as they develop.”

Tom Price, Executive Director, FEX, said: “Our decision to partner with RTS was an logical one given RTS’s global connectivity. RTS meets FEX’s stringent infrastructure support requirements in a professional and responsive manner. We look forward to a valuable partnership.”

RTS offers access through its Realtime Trading Desktop (RTD) portfolio, including its RTD-API’s, the RTD front-end trading system, and RTD Tango, its high performance automated algorithmic trading solution.

Additionally, RTS will be providing direct market access to the new marketplace in its data centre and hosting facilities across the world.

RTS Realtime Increases DMA Access to Vienna

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a trading solutions provider, today announced that Raiffeisen Centrobank AG, an issuing bank in Austria, has recently expanded its services by offering Direct Market Access (DMA) to the Vienna Stock Exchange, enabling other RTS customers to access this Xetra electronic trading platform based exchange.

RTS’ RTD Connect solution is easy to deploy between RTS customers, simply requiring a “plug ‘n play interface” between two RTD servers. Until now, Raiffeisen Centrobank has been using the high-performance trading platform RTD Realtime Trading Desktop for its proprietary trading.

Günter Englhart, responsible for order routing for Raiffeisen Centrobank, said: “With this new offering, we are able to further strengthen our order routing reach, providing customers the full scope of functionality available on Xetra Vienna. Further routing destinations are available on request.”

Said Christian Zahm, Sales Manager for RTS in Frankfurt: “We are pleased to deepen our long-term relationship with Raiffeisen Centrobank and to offer a new benefit to other customers as we extend our RTD Connect Network. With this endeavor, we now have an additional partner offering connectivity to other RTS customers.”