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RTS Realtime Systems Announces A New Alliance With IT Firm Essex India As Its Distribution Partner

Date 16/10/2006

RTS Realtime Systems AG and Essex India, today announce that they have entered into a distribution agreement to sell and support the entire portfolio of RTS’s professional trading solutions to the Indian market.

Pune based IT company Essex India, close to Mumbai, will act as a certified RTS partner and will cover the entire distribution process from consulting, sales and customer service to local support.

RTS has almost 15 years of experience providing trading solutions and risk management tools to market makers, proprietary traders, brokers and individuals around the world. RTS’s global customer base can access over 70 exchanges and growing and we offer this access on multiple exchanges for trading all traded products from one screen.

“We believe in our capacity to reach out to the financial community and convince them of RTS’s trading solutions,” says Achal Darbari, CEO of Essex India. “We are partnering for success - Essex is a small but dedicated company with strong ties within the industry; we are well poised and positioned to distribute RTS’s front-office solutions.”

Steffen Gemünden, Co-CEO and President of RTS, adds, “We are very pleased with this partnership. Asia and India, in particular, will be amongst the key markets in the next decade. Partnering with Essex means being represented in one of the most promising and prosperous markets.” During the preliminary talks with Essex we were sure that our knowledge and solutions, combined with Essex’s on the ground approach would be a good team.

Having distribution alliance partners in Greece, Italy and Portugal RTS has now extended its certified partner program to a non-European partner. For more information about India please contact your nearest RTS-office or simply write an email to globalsales@rtsgroup.net

PRESS RELEASE About RTS Realtime Systems Group:
RTS is a leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with local sales and support offices in the major financial centers and distribution partners in Greece, Italy and Portugal. RTS is the market leader in terms of functionality in electronic trading software for all traded products. With more than 3,000 user licenses and connections to more than 70 exchanges around the world, RTS has secured a solid position in the industry. In business since 1992, RTS has over fourteen years' of experience developing software to enable trading on the electronic exchanges.
As a global player in the area of electronic trading, RTS also offers an additional service to its customers. Upon request, RTS data-centers can provide flexible and high-speed connectivity options, state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and professional ASP solutions.
For more information about our company and our products, please contact: globalsales@rtsgroup.net

About Essex India:
Essex India is a complete derivatives solutions company offering world class trading systems, training and analytical tools to Indian brokers, traders and fund managers.
Essex's mission is to enhance their clients' competitiveness, profitability & decision-making process by providing state of the art trading systems and training solutions.
For more information please go to www.essexindia.com.