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RTS Expands Exchange Connectivity To The Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Date 30/03/2004

RTS Realtime Systems Group, one of the leading global Independent Software Vendors providing professional trading software for Locals, Market Makers, Proprietary Traders, Brokers and Institutionals, today announces the connection to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

As a certified software vendor for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, RTS now offers stock trading in addition to the already implemented options and futures market.

The state-of-the-art trading system RTD Realtime Trading Desktop is used on the world's major stock markets such as Nasdaq, NYSE, LSE, Xetra and Euronext and now is also available for the Hong Kong markets.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange offers trading of stocks, warrants, bonds, equity linked instruments as well as exchange-traded funds.

Steffen Gemuenden, Member of the RTS Board of Directors, comments: "This is an important step in RTS's strategic plan to broaden its presence in Asia's financial markets. Our aim is to connect more and more exchanges in the Asian and Pacific area to increase our global network." Furthermore he states: "With trading equities, options and futures RTD offers the integrated solution to trade the whole Hong Kong market."

RTS already provides connectivity to more than 50 electronic exchanges including a number of other Asian/Pacific exchanges like ASX, ASX-D, HKFE and SFE.