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Eze Software Group Begins Operations Following Completion of Eze Castle Software, RealTick, and Tradar Acquisitions by TPG

4/9/2013 11:35:51 AM

Boston, April 9, 2013 - Eze Software Group today announced the completion of its launch as an independent provider of global, multi-asset class investment technology. Backed by TPG, the new company brings together the collective expertise and proven success of the RealTick® EMS, Eze OMS™ and Tradar PMS teams.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, the new Eze Software Group is uniquely positioned to provide a combination of industryleading products in a single platform for a streamlined workflow across the front, middle, and back office. Eze Software’s global technology platform provides a comprehensive feature set that includes real-time market data, charting, and analytics; pre-, intra-, and post-trade compliance; electronic trading and global DMA; portfolio analytics and modeling; order management; portfolio risk and valuation; post-trade processing; portfolio accounting; and data management.

“The Eze Software Group is new but the solutions we offer have been leaders in the market for years,” said Tom Gavin, chief executive officer for Eze Software Group. “Bringing the RealTick EMS, Eze OMS and Tradar PMS teams together will enable Eze Software to offer an integrated solution backed by our global reputation for unparalleled customer support.”

"We are excited about investing in this industry-leading investment management technology company," said Bryan Taylor, partner at TPG. "Eze Software Group offers the range of products from front to back office with a fullyintegrated global platform. We look forward to partnering with the talented management teams to continue to create innovative products and provide the comprehensive suite of solutions investment managers require."

“TPG has a long-standing reputation of helping to build successful growth companies in the technology sector,” added Gavin. “We are thrilled to partner with the TPG team and look forward to working together as we continue to advance the Eze Software Group technology platform.”

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. acted as financial advisors to TPG. Ropes & Gray LLP acted as legal advisor to TPG.

About Eze Software Group
Eze Software Group is a premier provider of global investment technology to support the front, middle, and back office. Formed in 2013, Eze Software brings together the proven success of the RealTick EMS, Eze OMS, and Tradar PMS teams. It partners with more than 1,500 buy- and sell-side institutions in 30 countries across North and South America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Its clients include broker-dealers, endowments, family offices, hedge funds, institutional asset managers, mutual funds, pension funds, and professional individual investors. Based in Boston, Eze Software employs more than 750 people in 12 offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.ezesoft.com.

About TPG
TPG is a leading global private investment firm founded in 1992, with more than $54.5 billion of assets under management and offices in San Francisco, Fort Worth, Austin, Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. TPG has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, growth investments, joint ventures and restructurings. The firm has extensive technology expertise with investments that have included Alltel, FIS, Hotwire, IMS Health, Intergraph, Lenovo, LPS, MEMC, Sabre Holdings, Seagate Technology, SunGard and Vertafore. For more information visit www.tpg.com.

Contacts:
For Eze Software Group:
Meghan Rocha
mrocha@ezesoft.com
+1 617-316-1153

For TPG:
Owen Blicksilver PR, Inc.
Lisa Baker
lisa@blicksilverpr.com
+1 914-725-5949

ConvergEx Group’s RealTick Adds Ancerno Solutions to Build Out TCA Platform

1/11/2012 5:36:50 PM

New York, January 10, 2012 – ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick®, its award winning execution platform, has partnered with Ancerno Ltd, an Abel & Noser company, to offer Ancerno’s advanced transaction cost analytics (TCA) software and execution consulting services to RealTick’s customers. Ancerno specializes in providing global, independent, broker-neutral TCA products and technologies.

The agreement immediately expands the RealTick TCA product suite and adds comprehensive pre- and post-trade analytics. These services include options for a basic compliance product; a full-featured software only product; and a complete end-to-end package that includes software and access to Ancerno’s execution consulting service.

“As traders face increasing demands for performance and profitability, TCA is no longer a luxury, but an integral part of trading and investment strategy,” said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of ConvergEx’s RealTick. “Ancerno’s reputation for quality is second to none and their level of service meets the high standards that our customers have come to expect.”

“With over 130 pre-set measures, Ancerno’s web-based trading analytics covers the full trading cycle, from portfolio manager, to trader, to execution venue,” said James Noser, president of Ancerno. “With this agreement RealTick customers can make even more informed execution decisions.”

“Ancerno’s flexible and highly customizable nature allows customers to slice and dice data to analyze strategies, investigate outliers, evaluate venues and measure performance from multiple views,” said Daniel Rooney, president of ConvergEx’s RealTick. “Ancerno’s deep trade universe helps customers perform meaningful peer analysis and comparisons, which is increasingly essential to evaluate trading effectiveness.”

RealTick is a provider of comprehensive, global, cross-asset class, multi-broker trading, risk and data solutions. RealTick was recently rated the 2011 Best Provider of Execution Management Systems (EMS) by Waters Technology and Best EMS by Buy Side Technology magazines.

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About ConvergEx Group
ConvergEx Group is a leading technology company providing mission-critical proprietary software products and technology-enabled services to asset managers and financial intermediaries globally. Its products and services span the investment life cycle and are designed to enable customers to achieve improved results through operational and workflow efficiencies, execution and analytical tools and highly personalized service. The firm serves customers accessing over 100 global markets. Formed in 2006, the firm has over 1,200 employees in 22 locations throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

ConvergEx Group includes ConvergEx Execution Solutions LLC (member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC); LiquidPoint, LLC (member CBOE/SIPC); G-Trade Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Westminster Research Associates LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Eze Castle Transaction Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); ConvergEx Prime Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Eze Castle Software LLC; RealTick LLC; ConvergEx Solutions LLC, of which Cogent Consulting, ConnEx, Jaywalk and LDB are divisions; ConvergEx Limited in the UK and Australia; and ConvergEx Asia Pacific Limited in Hong Kong. ConvergEx Group, LLC is a subsidiary of ConvergEx Holdings, LLC. Additional information is available at www.convergex.com.

ConvergEx Group’s RealTick Finishes 2011 with Record Results

1/11/2012 5:36:32 PM

New York, December 28, 2011 -- ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick®, its award-winning execution platform, has wrapped up 2011 with a record number of new buy-side customer wins and a year of European growth that has outpaced all previous years. The number of new client firms live on RealTick grew by 17% globally and 28% throughout Europe.

“This has truly been a banner year for us. Since becoming a part of ConvergEx in January, we have seen an extraordinary level of new demand for RealTick,” said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of ConvergEx’s RealTick. “The expansion this year in our product functionality and customer-facing staff, combined with ConvergEx’s breadth of complementary capabilities, helped fuel our growth and contributed to our remarkable success this year.”

One of the biggest milestones of 2011 was the launch of RealTick 11, which offered greatly expanded multi-asset-class trading, integrated transaction cost analysis (TCA), expanded global broker and market connectivity and enriched mobile capabilities. RealTick also received two major industry awards in 2011, being named the Best Provider of Execution Management Systems (EMS) by Waters Technology and Best EMS by Buy Side Technology magazines.

RealTick is the industry’s premier global multi‐broker, multi‐asset class trading platform. RealTick’s ease of use, unsurpassed flexibility and fully configurable trader experience delivers intuitively integrated analysis, execution and evaluation solutions which provide the opportunity for improved trading performance and investment profitability.

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ConvergEx Group includes ConvergEx Execution Solutions LLC (member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC); LiquidPoint, LLC (member CBOE/SIPC); G-Trade Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Westminster Research Associates LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Eze Castle Transaction Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); ConvergEx Prime Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Eze Castle Software LLC; RealTick LLC; ConvergEx Research Solutions LLC, of which Jaywalk, Cogent Consulting and LDB are divisions; ConvergEx Limited in the UK and Australia; and ConvergEx Asia Pacific Limited in Hong Kong. ConvergEx Group, LLC is a subsidiary of ConvergEx Holdings, LLC. Additional information is available at www.convergex.com.

ConvergEx Group Announces Launch of RealTick 11

11/11/2011 2:55:43 PM

New York, November 11, 2011 – ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick®, its global, cross-asset class, multi-broker, multi-prime execution management system, has continued to build out its award-winning platform with the release of RealTick 11.

“With RealTick 11, we are rolling out our most advanced technology. This launch gives our customers numerous new features to enhance trading functionality and provide deep transaction cost analytics (TCA). It offers greatly expanded connectivity to global markets as well as upgrades to RealTick Mobile,” said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of ConvergEx’s RealTick. “More than ever before, it allows our customers to fully concentrate on their core trading activities by using intuitive technology that anticipates their strategies and styles.”

RealTick 11 comes with RealTick’s new cross-asset class Strategy Server and Rules-based Order Routing Engine. The Strategy Server puts traders in control of executing spread and pair orders. It gives them the power to set active and leaning leg settings to manually or automatically manage leg risk across markets, brokers and broker algorithms. The Rules-based Order Routing Engine lets customers define any combination of order fields and parameters to intelligently and automatically route orders to any combination venues, exchanges and/or routes. RealTick 11 also has upgraded its global derivative platform by streamlining its options interface and improving performance. In addition, RealTick has expanded futures trading connectivity and broadened the universe of futures and future options contracts available for trading.

In enhancing its suite of analytic capabilities, RealTick Trading Analytics, RealTick 11 is now providing customers with pre-trade, post-trade and intra-trade analytic solutions. These TCA tools deliver the transparency needed to understand and manage trading costs and ensure best execution throughout the entire trading life cycle - from investment idea to execution.

RealTick 11 is also continuing with its previously announced global expansion and has added Canadian market data from Alpha, Chi-X, Omega, Pure and TMX Select. RealTick 11 will also roll out TSX direct market access and smart order routing and is expanding the Level 2 display for Canadian markets. Depth of book data is also being added for Brazilian BM&F and Johannesburg equity and futures markets.

Further, as customers are becoming more reliant on their iPads® and smart phones, they are looking for more functionality from mobile trading applications. With RealTick 11, customers can now remotely track positions, monitor and cancel orders, and follow market activity and news from any iPad, iPhone® or smart phone.

“RealTick continues to deliver hedge funds, institutions and brokers the most comprehensive global trading platform available,” said Dan Rooney, president of ConvergEx’s RealTick. “With the launch of RealTick 11, we are reinforcing our commitment to building one, fully integrated global platform that allows customers to trade across all asset classes.”

RealTick is the leading provider of comprehensive, global, cross-asset class, multi-broker, multi-prime trading, risk and data solutions. RealTick was rated the 2011 Best Provider of Execution Management Systems (EMS) by Waters Technology and received Buy-Side Technology’s 2011 Best EMS Award.

BNY ConvergEx Group, LLC is comprised of the following businesses: BNY ConvergEx Execution Solutions LLC (member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC), LiquidPoint, LLC (member CBOE/SIPC); Eze Castle Transaction Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Westminster Research Associates LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); G-Trade Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); NorthPoint Trading Partners, LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Eze Castle Software LLC, RealTick LLC and ConvergEx Research Solutions LLC, of which Jaywalk, Cogent Consulting and LDB are divisions. Additional information is available at www.convergex.com.

ConvergEx Group’s Eze OMS and RealTick Win Best OMS and Best EMS at the 2011 Buy-Side Technology Awards

11/7/2011 12:00:59 PM

New York and London, November 7, 2011 – ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that it has received two major awards at the 2011 Buy-Side Technology Awards held in London. The Eze OMS™ was named Best Buy-Side Order Management System (OMS) and RealTick® was named Best Buy-Side Execution Management System (EMS). Both Eze and RealTick were chosen from a record number of entrants.

“We are honored to receive these awards. They are a testament to the hard work and dedication of all of our talented staff around the globe. They have made these cutting-edge tools invaluable to our customers,” said Joseph M. Velli, chairman and chief executive officer of ConvergEx Group. “We believe that to stay competitive in this business you can never rest on your laurels. In the past year, we have made significant investments in our products and have rolled out a tremendous amount of new features and functionalities. Looking forward, we will continue to reinvest and allocate the necessary resources to keep these products the very best in the industry.”

The award‐winning Eze OMS leverages a real‐time open architecture to streamline the investment cycle for all asset classes – from idea generation through settlement. The Eze OMS provides functionality to support portfolio management, compliance, trading and operations in a single platform.

RealTick is the leading provider of comprehensive, global, cross-asset class, multi-broker, multi-prime trading, risk and data solutions. RealTick’s ease of use, unsurpassed flexibility and fully configurable trader experience delivers intuitively integrated analysis, execution and evaluation solutions which provide the opportunity for improved trading performance and investment profitability.

The Eze OMS and RealTick were also named Best OMS and Best EMS at the 2011 Waters Technology Awards.

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ConvergEx Group Names Kenneth Byrne Head of Americas Sales for RealTick

9/26/2011 3:15:36 PM

New York, September 19, 2011 - ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that Kenneth Byrne has been named the new head of Americas Sales for RealTick, its award-winning global execution platform. Based in ConvergEx's corporate headquarters in New York, he reports to Daniel Rooney, president of ConvergEx's RealTick.

Mr. Byrne joins RealTick from FlexiSphere, a provider of cloud middleware services that he cofounded two years ago. Prior to founding FlexiSphere, he served as an executive vice president at Reuters as well as an executive vice president for Calypso Technologies. Early in his career Mr. Byrne was an index futures trader and marketing executive for the New York Stock Exchange.

"Ken is a seasoned Wall Street veteran who joins at a time when RealTick is experiencing a tremendous amount of growth," said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of ConvergEx's RealTick. "Ken will play an integral role in helping to identify revenue synergies between RealTick and other ConvergEx businesses. We are thrilled to have him join the team."

RealTick is the industry's premier global multi-Broker, multi-asset class trading platform. RealTick's ease of use, unsurpassed flexibility and fully configurable trader experience delivers intuitively integrated analysis, execution and evaluation solutions which provide the opportunity for improved trading performance and investment profitability.

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ConvergEx’s RealTick Appoints Senior Managers, Expands Global Customer-Facing Staff

9/26/2011 3:15:12 PM

New York, August 3, 2011 – ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick, its award-winning global execution platform, has appointed two senior business development heads, Daniel Rooney and Ian Mawdsley.

Mr. Rooney has been named president of RealTick and head of Global Business Development. Reporting to RealTick CEO Stuart Breslow, Mr. Rooney will direct all global sales and marketing, customer on-boarding and product management activities.

Mr. Rooney brings more than 25 years of relevant experience to his new role. For the six years prior to joining RealTick, he was a managing director of Sales and Business Development in ConvergEx’s LiquidPoint unit. Before joining LiquidPoint, he held a number of business development roles at Reuters and the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Rooney will be based out of RealTick’s Chicago headquarters.

Mr. Mawdsley has been named head of International Business Development, reporting to Mr. Rooney. Mr. Mawdsley has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, with expertise in both electronic and traditional trading. Most recently he was responsible for the development and growth of TradingScreen’s listed derivatives business. Prior to TradingScreen, he worked with the equity prime services arm of UBS. Mr. Mawdsley will be based in RealTick’s London office.

RealTick also announced today that in order to accommodate its rapidly growing global customer base, it has added 15 new sales and service personnel in the U.S. and Europe during the first half of 2011. These new hires are in RealTick’s origination, relationship management and customer services units.

“We are thrilled to welcome Dan, Ian and all our new employees to the team,” said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of RealTick. “Dan brings a wealth of industry experience and insight to build and manage our global growth and Ian’s years of experience with global, multi-asset electronic trading and disciplined approach to business growth will be critical elements to helping us achieve our international objectives. We have seen tremendous growth in the last year and these new hires position RealTick well as we move forward.”

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ConvergEx Group Announces Definitive Agreement to be Acquired by CVC Capital Partners

9/26/2011 3:14:47 PM

New York, July 20, 2011 ConvergEx Group ("ConvergEx"), a leading technology company, today announced that its parent company ConvergEx Holdings, LLC has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by funds advised by CVC Capital Partners ("CVC") in an all cash transaction expected to close in the early autumn.

Upon close of the transaction, CVC will be the largest owner of the ConvergEx group of companies. The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation ("BNY Mellon") will remain as a minority shareholder. The existing ConvergEx management team, led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Joseph Velli, will remain substantial shareholders and continue to manage the company.

ConvergEx was originally formed in 2006 by combining assets of BNY Mellon and Eze Castle Software. Since its formation, the company has expanded its businesses through a series of strategic acquisitions and organic growth.

Today, its products and services include powerful, proprietary technologies for every stage of the investment life cycle across multiple asset classes. The company has over 1,200 employees in 22 locations worldwide and partners with more than 4,000 customers accessing over 100 global markets.

"ConvergEx is thrilled to have CVC join us as our majority investor and our new partner as we continue to build our world-class technology company," commented ConvergEx Chairman and CEO Joseph Velli. "We are also very pleased to be continuing our long-standing and highly productive relationship with BNY Mellon. Together, along with the ConvergEx management team, we see tremendous opportunities in our company's future and we are fully committed to growing our business even further."

"ConvergEx is a best-in-class software and technology provider to asset managers and financial intermediaries with strong positions across its broad portfolio of products and services. We are excited to partner with its highly regarded and exceptionally deep management team," said Kamil Salame, CVC Partner and Head of the U.S. Financial Institutions Group. "The company is well positioned to benefit from the continued growth of Capital markets globally and, given CVC Financial Institutions Group's global resources and CVC's worldwide office network, we believe our partnership will be complementary. Furthermore, we welcome the continued ownership and cooperation of BNY Mellon during this exciting new phase of the company's growth."

"We have had a great period of growth since ConvergEx's inception. In fact, during the first six months of this year, both of our business segments posted strong results and we expect to see 20% year over year growth in 2011," said Velli. "Given that growth story, we were very pleased to be approached by CVC. We had a number of attractive offers and opportunities before us, but we believe that CVC will be the best partner in helping us accelerate our growth even more as we go forward."

ConvergEx's financial advisors for the transaction were Goldman, Sachs & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup, Inc. and Barclays Capital PLC. Kirkland & Ellis, LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP served as legal counsel.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as financial advisors to CVC. CVC received legal advice from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP on the transaction. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., affiliates of Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. provided fully committed financing to CVC.

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About CVC Capital Partners
CVC Capital Partners ("CVC") is one of the world's leading private equity and investment advisory firms, with a network of 20 offices and some 250 employees throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. CVC funds seek to identify attractive investments and then develop sustainable, long-term value in close partnership with management teams. To date, CVC has raised over $44 billion from a diverse and loyal investor base and is currently investing from funds with an aggregate of just under $10 billion in available equity capital. Since its founding in 1981, CVC has completed over 290 investments in a wide range of industries and countries.

CVC has significant experience in financial services investments, and its dedicated Global Financial Institutions Group focuses on investing in leading financial businesses across North America, Europe and Asia. CVC has a number of portfolio companies in the financial institutions sector, including Acromas Holdings (leading finance, motoring and leisure services provider in the UK), Avolon (leading commercial aircraft lessor), Brit Insurance (leading global insurance and reinsurance provider), Fraikin (leading commercial vehicle operational leasing company in Europe), RCBC (leading private commercial bank in the Philippines), and Sun Hung Kai (Hong Kong's leading retail brokerage house and consumer finance company).

About ConvergEx Group
ConvergEx Group is a leading technology company providing mission-critical proprietary software products and technology-enabled services to asset managers and financial intermediaries globally. Its products and services span the investment life cycle and are designed to enable customers to achieve improved results through operational and workflow efficiencies, execution and analytical tools and highly personalized service. The firm serves customers accessing over 100 global markets. Formed in 2006, the firm has
over 1,200 employees in 22 locations throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

BNY ConvergEx Group, LLC is comprised of the following businesses: BNY ConvergEx Execution Solutions LLC (member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC), LiquidPoint, LLC (member CBOE/SIPC); Eze Castle Transaction Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Westminster Research Associates LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); G©Trade Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); NorthPoint Trading Partners, LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Eze Castle Software LLC, RealTick LLC and ConvergEx Research Solutions LLC, of which Jaywalk, Cogent Consulting and LDB are divisions. Additional information is available at www.convergex.com.

ConvergEx’s RealTick and Eze Castle Software Win at the 2011 Waters Awards

7/28/2011 3:08:31 PM

New York, July 18, 2011 – ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that it has won two awards at the 2011 Waters Rankings. ConvergEx’s Eze OMS™ was named Best Buy-Side Order Management System Provider for the second year in a row and ConvergEx’s RealTick® was named Best Execution Management System Provider.

The awards recognize industry excellence for technology service providers and their offerings. A poll of the magazine's 10,000 readers determined the winners of this year's awards.

Commenting on the awards, Joseph M. Velli, chairman and chief executive officer of ConvergEx Group said: “Every year, our customers become more reliant on cutting-edge technology to support their investment strategies. These awards are a great acknowledgement of the fact that ConvergEx's offerings have become critical to our customer's businesses and integral to their daily workflows. This is a true honor for ConvergEx and I am tremendously proud of the achievements of our talented employees.”

Click here for more information about Waters Rankings.

Elizabeth Anderson
ConvergEx Group
1633 Broadway, 48th Floor | New York, NY 10019
W: 212.468.7713 | BB: 917.828.5563 | M: 917.860.1411
eanderson@convergex.com

ConvergEx's RealTick 10 Rolls Out New Risk Technology for Market Access Rule, Operational Requirements

7/28/2011 3:08:19 PM

New York, July 14, 2011 - ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick 10, its global multi©asset class execution platform, is now offering its broker customers an enhanced risk management solution to meet the requirements of the new market access rule (SEC Rule 15c3-5). This rule requires brokers to implement and maintain specific risk management controls prior to providing their end customers with access to execution venues. Certain provisions of the rule are set to take effect today.

"Embedding rigorous controls that provide intermediaries and customers the tools to comply with the current regulatory requirements is an integral component of any trading technology," said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of ConvergEx's RealTick. "Our delivery of these additional controls gives brokers the assistance they need to remain in compliance with the market access rule and to manage their risk as their clients trade."

The RealTick solution also provides a highly configurable administrative application to allow broker customers to manage their trading clients, pre-trade risk controls, credit and margin limits and to monitor risk in real-time.

Options include:

Pre-trade Risk Controls: Price; Trade Size; Trade Frequency; Percent of Portfolio, Aggregate Intraday Cost; and Conflict of Interest
Short Sale Management: Easy-to-Borrow/Hard-to-Borrow; Short Locate and other short sale options
Credit and Margin: Requirements, Limits and Restrictions.

RealTick is the industry's premier global multi-broker, multi-asset class trading platform. RealTick's ease of use, unsurpassed flexibility and fully configurable trader experience delivers intuitively integrated analysis, execution and evaluation solutions which provide the opportunity for improved trading performance and investment profitability.

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Elizabeth Anderson
ConvergEx Group
1633 Broadway, 48th Floor | New York, NY 10019
W: 212.468.7713 | BB: 917.828.5563 | M: 917.860.1411
eanderson@convergex.com

ConvergEx's RealTick Adds More Than Twenty Brokers YTD to its Network

7/28/2011 3:08:06 PM

New York, June 20, 2011 - ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick 10, its global multi-asset class execution platform, has continued to expand its global multi-broker dealer network with the addition of more than twenty brokers year-to-date in 2011. RealTick provides the most comprehensive solution available for institutions seeking to analyze, execute and evaluate trades and strategies across asset classes and markets.

Some of the brokers added include

Abel/Noser Corp.
Avatar Securities, LLC
Bay Crest Partners, LLC
BMO Capital Markets Corp.
Exane SA
Gar Wood Securities, LLC
GETCO Execution Services
Grupo Bursatil Mexicano, S.A.
InterBolsa Securities LLC
Leerink Swann LLC
Louis Capital Markets UK, LLP
Monness, Crespi Hardt & Co., Inc.
Mutual Securities Inc.
Oddo Securities
Redburn Partners LLP
The Royal Bank of Scotland, NV
Scotia Capital
SecureVest Financial Group
SunGard Global Execution Services
Tourmaline Partners, LLC
United First Partners LLC

"With the addition of these brokers we continue to expand the breadth of markets and the depth of liquidity that is available to our customers,¡± said Michel Finzi, managing director and head of Global Business Development at ConvergEx¡¯s RealTick. ¡°We have a healthy pipeline and will continue to add more brokers in more regions so our customers have the broadest range of options to execute their strategies."

RealTick is the industry's premier global multi-Broker, multi-asset class trading platform. RealTick's ease of use, unsurpassed flexibility, world class client service and fully configurable trader experience delivers intuitively integrated analysis, execution and evaluation solutions which provide the opportunity for improved trading performance and investment profitability.

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Elizabeth Anderson
ConvergEx Group
1633 Broadway, 48th Floor | New York, NY 10019
W: 212.468.7713 | BB: 917.828.5563 | M: 917.860.1411
eanderson@convergex.com

ConvergEx's RealTick Offers Brazilian Derivatives

4/6/2011 3:30:39 PM

New York and Chicago, April 6, 2011 –ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick 10, its global multi-asset class execution platform, now provides Brazilian futures and options data and execution capabilities from BM&FBovespa S.A. This is the second recent major regional market expansion, building on the addition of NASDAQ OMX Nordic Equity TotalView which was launched in October 2010.

“The importance of having access to aggregated market data and execution across asset classes and markets cannot be overstated in today’s environment,” said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of ConvergEx’s RealTick. “Given its growth history, the Brazilian market forms an integral part of an increasing number of investment strategies for international and domestic institutions and traders. By adding Brazilian derivatives, we are providing clients with even broader options for portfolio diversification, analysis and investments.”

With this offering, RealTick now provides its broker-dealer, institutional and professional clients with enhanced price discovery, access to liquidity and additional execution opportunities in Latin American markets, alongside access to North American, European and Asian markets. RealTick clients will be able to trade Brazilian derivatives, as well as equities, either locally or cross border through the firm’s network of global broker-dealers.

“Throughout 2011, RealTick is continuing a series of strategic moves adding functionality, global data and an even broader range of asset classes and geographies. The move to expand its offerings to include Brazilian derivatives is a critical element in the planned expansion,” continued Breslow. “Expansion in global data and instruments available for execution, the ability to analyze pre-and post trade activity and to evaluate trades in light of specific strategies and market conditions is central to what RealTick delivers.”

RealTick 10 embeds trading as an integral and essential part of the investment equation. Through the redesign and unbundling of its platform, RealTick 10 now provides traders with intuitively designed AXE: Analysis, Execution, and Evaluation – the three critical elements which make for smarter trading decisions and which result in the opportunity for better execution and investment performance. RealTick provides its services across assets on a global basis to broker-dealers, hedge funds, asset managers, professional and active traders, via its execution management system, APIs, FIX and RealTick Mobile™.

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About ConvergEx Group
ConvergEx Group is a leading technology company providing mission critical software and technology-enabled services to asset managers and financial intermediaries globally. Its products and services span the investment life cycle and center on the development, marketing and servicing of technology-based solutions that enable clients to achieve improved investment results through operational and workflow efficiencies, execution and analytical tools and highly personalized service. The firm serves more than 6,000 clients in over 100 global markets. Formed in 2006, the firm has over 1,200 employees in 22 locations throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Elizabeth Anderson
ConvergEx Group
1633 Broadway, 48th Floor | New York, NY 10019
W: 212.468.7713 | BB: 917.828.5563 | M: 917.860.1411
eanderson@convergex.com

Nordic Equity TotalView, NASDAQ OMX’s premier market data product, is now available on RealTick

1/10/2011 10:37:57 AM

Nordic Equity TotalView offers a fast and comprehensive way to access order book data for all companies listed at NASDAQ OMX Nordic (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland and Stockholm) in addition to NASDAQ OMX First North – the Nordic alternative growth market. Nordic Equity TotalView provides information on trading activity, index data, and liquidity measure indicators for over 800 companies. As compared to Nordic Equity Level 1, TotalView provides 21 times more depth - helping clients to highlight and follow liquidity over time, pursue trading strategies, better understand how orders are distributed throughout the market and identify new trading opportunities.

For more information, please see NASDAQ OMX Nordic Equity TotalView.

ConvergEx Group to Acquire RealTick from Barclays Bank PLC

12/16/2010 10:59:32 AM

New York, December 16, 2010 – ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire RealTick®, a leading global, multi-broker, cross-asset electronic execution platform, from Barclays Bank PLC. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close by year end 2010, conditional upon regulatory and other customary closing conditions.

With the close of this acquisition, ConvergEx will broaden its technology offering to include a multi-asset class, easily deployable and completely broker-neutral execution platform. RealTick’s technology platform integrates seamlessly into almost any trading style and offers sophisticated features that enable traders to simplify their daily workflow.

“We chose to acquire RealTick because of its highly scalable technology, proven track record and talented and dedicated staff. The industry is moving rapidly towards consolidating execution management systems and we believe we can leverage ConvergEx’s global footprint to expand RealTick’s multi-broker network to make it the most comprehensive and global offering in the industry,” said Joseph M. Velli, chairman and chief executive officer of ConvergEx Group. “This deal is part of ConvergEx’s long-standing strategy of growing its technology offering for asset managers and financial intermediaries by building or acquiring best-in-class tools that complement our existing product lines. This is another example of technology that we will be able to place on our clients’ desktops to help them improve their workflow and performance."

“We are thrilled to be joining forces with ConvergEx,” said Stuart Breslow, chief executive officer of RealTick. “This transaction aligns us with a premier technology company with a global reach and a deep client base. Our clients have grown to expect RealTick’s continual innovation of technologies that help them analyze, execute and evaluate performance. These clients will now benefit from the broad range of complementary capabilities that ConvergEx has to offer.”

“Over the past several years, RealTick has become a leader in the market, offering a cutting-edge product which is widely utilized across the institutional client base,” said Jerry Donini, head of Equities at Barclays Capital. “We look forward to continuing to work with RealTick as it enters its next phase of growth.”

ConvergEx is a leading technology company providing products and services to asset managers and financial intermediaries globally. Its products and services span the investment life cycle and center on the development, marketing and servicing of technology-based solutions that enable clients to achieve improved investment results through operational and workflow efficiencies, execution and analytical tools and highly personalized service. The firm serves more than 6,000 institutional clients in 100 global markets. Formed in 2006, the firm has over 1,000 employees in 22 locations throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

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BNY ConvergEx Group, LLC is comprised of the following businesses: BNY ConvergEx Execution Solutions LLC (member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC), LiquidPoint, LLC (member CBOE/SIPC); Eze Castle Transaction Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Westminster Research Associates LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); G-Trade Services LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); NorthPoint Trading Partners, LLC (member FINRA/SIPC); Eze Castle Software LLC, and ConvergEx Research Solutions LLC, of which Jaywalk and Cogent Consulting are divisions. Additional information is available at www.convergex.com.

RealTick 10 is launched today. Designed to Deliver AXE - Analysis, Execution, and Evaluation

11/15/2010 11:13:35 AM

(New York and London: November 15, 2010) RealTick® (www.realtick.com), the leading global provider of multi-broker, multi-asset electronic trading solutions announced today it has, in its latest release RealTick 10, delivered a platform which embeds trading as an integral and essential part of the investment equation. Through the redesign and unbundling of its platform, RealTick 10 now provides AXE: analysis, execution, and evaluation – the three critical elements which make for smarter trading decisions and which result in the opportunity for better execution and performance.

RealTick 10 is designed to meet the seismic and rapidly changing dynamics in global markets and trading over the last two years. Starting with the trading cycle as its basis, it is architected to simultaneously account for information, access to liquidity, complex orders and strategies, and the regulatory requirements that buy-side and sell-side traders must consider as they trade. Traders have complete control over their trades at all times, with access to the analytics to make smarter trading decisions and the venues for better trade performance, and the ability to assess and manage risk – integrated into a single platform. In addition, RealTick 10 now delivers mobile capability.

As RealTick considered its new release, it undertook a strategic review of the current market environment, portfolio manager expectations, and trader behavior and activity. RealTick recognized the importance of trading itself, as part of the investment management performance equation for buy-side and profitability for the sell-side.

The result is a platform that sees today’s environment more as an ecosystem – where traders interact with a market that is set within a climate, with ever changing weather patterns and conditions. RealTick 10 accounts for the breadth and depth of the demands and complexity of this environment, which consists of AXE: Analysis, eXecution and Evaluation.

For analysis, beginning with an overhaul of the ergonomic interface of the platform, traders create their own view of the trading environment and market, and can customize the entire platform (including more than 1,000 discrete fields) based on their strategies and styles. This suits their preferences and demand for delivery of pre-trade and post-trade analytics that can lead to better execution in today’s hypercompetitive, multi-asset, and multi-broker global trading environment.

If traders prefer, RealTick 10 now completely unbundles the RealTick platform, so traders can access the complete suite of RealTick trading and market data solutions using either the revamped RealTick front end on a completely customized basis, or using FIX, Microsoft® Excel via a new dedicated RealTick add-in, RealTick’s revamped robust developer API, or any combination of methods.

For execution, and building from this intuitive base, traders now have more powerful access to “performing” liquidity via RealTick LiqudityScope™. LiquidityScope™ directs and analyzes order performance during execution and automatically sends orders to more liquid venues.

Further trader control is delivered to execute a variety of complex order types, including bracketed orders, and spreads & pairs trading using a new dedicated pairs trading module. These are set by traders with the ability to optimally organize trading and set defined conditions on execution. Additionally, equity option traders and risk managers can now analyse and automatically manage their risk exposure using an included option risk management module.

For evaluation, with RealTick 10, traders can filter, analyze, and adjust orders across asset classes and multiple benchmarks; single stock and portfolio trade performance measurement are included.

In addition, given the demands of global trading, RealTick Mobile™ allows traders to stay in touch wherever they are, offering a mobile companion to the RealTick trading experience usable on any smartphone device (e.g. iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, etc.). Traders can monitor outstanding orders, position updates, and P&L in real-time, worldwide.

These capabilities are supported by advanced pre-trade risk management monitoring and controls, which are essential in light of recent regulatory rulings. In addition to determining a risk hierarchy for market and position based management and control, traders have suitability analysis, exposure alerts, order entry permission and restrictions, and “fat finger” checks. RealTick risk management tools and comprehensive global multi-asset order routing network have been refined over the years, and are now available via FIX and RealTick API, in addition to the revamped RealTick front end.

Said Stuart Breslow, RealTick CEO: “Trading, risk management, and market interactions have become ever more complex. Due to competitive pressures, it is imperative for traders to be able to nimbly respond to market conditions and stay in touch with their trades as they occur. We set out to unbundle and repackage our time-tested trading technologies to provide traders with a platform that delivers what’s required to achieve trading alpha. RealTick 10 delivers on that expectation, providing capability that translates into opportunity for improved trading performance for traders and their firms.”

About RealTick
RealTick is the electronic trading industry’s premier multi-broker, broker neutral, multi-asset trading platform. RealTick’s unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front-to-back solution, including sophisticated trading tools; unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers, exchanges, ECNs and ATSs, plus alternative pools of liquidity; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick is supported by state-of-the-art global data centers and a redundant network for ultimate stability and resiliency. For more information, visit www.realtick.com.
*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

For Further Information:

Terrence Mulry
Mulry Consulting LLC
+1 201.891.1853
+1 917.860.8137

Rustam Lam
Global Head Of Marketing, RealTick
+44 (0) 20 7786 5091

RealTick Adds Bank Of America Merrill Lynch’s Newest Pairs Trading Algorithm

9/13/2010 10:49:00 AM

New York, 13 September, 2010 — RealTick® (www.realtick.com), the leading global, multi-broker, cross-asset electronic trading platform, announced today that it has further expanded its capabilities and now enables clients to execute US equity pairs trades using Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s (BofA Merrill) newly-released algorithm.

RealTick users can now access BofA Merrill’s newest tool to execute pairs trades, alongside the firm’s existing execution and liquidity services for global equities, options and futures. The pairs algorithm includes SPREAD, RATIO, INVSPREAD and INVRATIO strategies with customizable parameters and summary views.

“Clients continue to ask us for high-performance execution strategies deployed quickly and efficiently,” said Michael J. Lynch, head of Americas Execution Services at BofA Merrill. “We’re pleased to make available our new pairs functionality through RealTick.”

“Pairs trading has gained widespread adoption with clients engaged in relative value trading, so we are pleased to add BofA Merrill’s latest pairs capabilities. Clients increasingly see the benefits of using an advanced trading platform to effortlessly execute trading strategies across multiple asset classes,” said Michel Finzi, Global Head of Business Development at RealTick.

“Today’s traders are looking for the latest tools and functionality, combined with the highest level of client service from their brokers and trading platform. Our aim is to provide access to the widest network of brokers and their latest electronic products, within a functionally rich and configurable platform, providing traders with a competitive advantage at their fingertips,” adds Finzi.

BofA Merrill is part of RealTick’s global multi-broker network, which includes, among many others, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Bulltick Capital Markets, CA Cheuvreux, Citigroup, ConvergEx Group, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Instinet, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Knight, MF Global, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, RBC Capital Markets, Societe Generale and UBS.

RealTick continues to upgrade its fully configurable multi-broker, multi-asset class Execution Management System with advanced features that enable traders to simplify their daily workflow and stay focused on achieving better execution performance across brokers, algorithms, liquidity pools and asset classes, with ease.

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About RealTick
RealTick is the electronic trading industry’s premier global, broker neutral, multi Management System (EMS). RealTick’s unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers, exchanges, ECNs and ATSs, plus alternative pools of liquidity; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools. broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick EMS is supported by state and a redundant network for ultimate stability and resiliency.
For more information, visit www.realtick.com
*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

For additional information contact:
RealTick:
Rustam Lam, Director
+44 (0) 20 7786 5091
rlam@realtick.com

Bank of America Merrill Lynch:
Kerrie McHugh
Media Relations
+1 646 855 3375
kerrie.mchugh@bankofamerica.com

RealTick And Latin American Broker Bulltick Capital Markets Expand Execution Offering In Equities And Futures

6/14/2010 10:55:35 AM

New York, 14 June, 2010 - RealTick® (www.realtick.com), the leading global multi-broker, cross-asset electronic trading platform has expanded the suite of products provided by the Latin American investment banking and brokerage house, Bulltick Capital Markets. This longstanding relationship now enables clients to access Bulltick’s direct to market and algorithmic trading execution capabilities for the major LatAm and US markets. In addition, clients can access Bulltick’s execution for futures and international equities.

"Regional investors are increasingly seeking trading opportunities across local, pan-regional and international markets, while at the same time international investors are increasing their exposure to the LatAm markets. Bulltick is able to service both types of investors with an integrated local, US and international execution expertise." said Alejandro Creixell, Managing Partner, Bulltick Capital Markets.

"Our aim at RealTick is to provide clients with access to the broadest network of global and specialist brokers across all regions, thereby enabling traders with the ability to execute their orders and implement their investment ideas as effectively as possible. By expanding the execution capabilities from Bulltick we are enabling investors to access one of the world's fastest growing regions," said Michel Finzi, Global Head of Business Development at RealTick.

"We use RealTick as our trading platform internally and deploy it for trading clients, so we are pleased to have expanded our relationship together. Bulltick is able to provide electronic execution and support in the major Latin American markets, across large, mid and small cap stocks, as well as cross border execution expertise" adds Creixell.

"This integration is another example of how through a single, easy to use platform, clients have rapid access to the widest network of brokers, electronic products, markets and expertise globally and regionally," adds Michel Finzi.

Bulltick is part of RealTick’s global multi-broker network which includes, among many others, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, CA Cheuvreux, Citigroup, ConvergEx Group, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Instinet, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Knight, MF Global, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, RBC Capital Markets, Societe Generale and UBS.

About RealTick
RealTick is the electronic trading industry's premier global, multi-broker, broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System (EMS). RealTick's unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front-to-back solution, including sophisticated trading tools; unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers, exchanges, ECNs and ATSs, plus alternative pools of liquidity; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick EMS is supported by stateof-the-art global data centers and a redundant network for ultimate stability and resiliency.
For more information, visit www.realtick.com.

*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

About Bulltick
Bulltick Capital Markets LP is an investment bank specialized in Latin America. Through its subsidiaries, the company offers sales and trading, research, investment banking and asset management services, locally and regionally, specializing in cross border transactions. Bulltick’s client base is composed of major financial institutions and qualified investors in Latin America, and the international investment community with interests in the region. Operating since 1999 and headquartered in the U.S., Bulltick Capital Markets maintains a geographic footprint that extends across Latin America with business presence across the region and offices in Miami, Sao Paulo, Mexico, Bogota and Buenos Aires.
For more information go to www.bulltick.com

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For more information contact:

RealTick
Rustam Lam, Director
+44 (0) 20 7786 5091
rlam@realtick.com

Bulltick
Alejandra Slatapolsky, Head of Communications and Marketing
+1 305 722 5008
alejandras@bulltick.com

RealTick Expands Relationship With Jefferies, Adding Newest Algorithmic Suite And Pairs Trading Capabilities

5/12/2010 11:53:18 AM

New York, May 12 2010 — RealTick® (www.realtick.com), the leading global, multi-broker, cross-asset electronic trading platform, has expanded its capabilities with Jefferies & Company, Inc., as part of its international multi-broker network. This longstanding partnership allows clients to now execute US equity Pairs trades, plus international equities, using new algorithms from Jefferies, a major global securities and investment banking firm.

RealTick users can now access Jefferies’ newest suite of algorithms. This enhanced functionality is demonstrated in three new innovative algorithms: MultiScale, Trader, and Panel, all of which allow a trader to take more control over executions and be more responsive to changing market dynamics.

Additionally, Jefferies has upgraded its Pairs trading algorithms, providing simultaneous execution of two stocks using pre-defined conditions including: spread, price ratio and relative performance versus a benchmark. International algorithmic execution is also available alongside Jefferies’ existing direct access, program trading and smart order routing capabilities for US, international equities, and US options in RealTick.

“As Jefferies continues to expand globally, we expect our algorithmic suite including our Pairs algorithms, coupled with RealTick’s highly user friendly platform, to provide clients with enhanced execution capabilities and performance for their trading strategies.” said Daniel Charney, Head of Global Electronic Trading Services at Jefferies. “All of our algorithms use sophisticated order placement, enabling the strategies to intelligently source displayed and non-displayed liquidity.”

“Our aim is to ensure clients have access to the widest network of brokers and their latest electronic products globally. We are pleased to have significantly expanded the execution capabilities available via Jefferies, particularly in relation to Pairs trading, which is gaining greater focus with clients,” states Michel Finzi, Global Head of Business Development at RealTick.

“Traders looking to capture alpha increasingly want a single platform with the tools they need to execute sophisticated trading strategies, backed by the highest level of client service, from their brokers and execution platform,” adds Finzi.

Jefferies is part of RealTick’s global multi-broker network, which includes, among many others, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, CA Cheuvreux, Citigroup, ConvergEx Group, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Instinet, JP Morgan, Knight, MF Global, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, RBC Capital Markets, Societe Generale, and UBS.

RealTick continues to upgrade its fully configurable multi-broker, multi-asset class EMS with advanced features that enable traders to simplify their daily workflow and stay focused on achieving better execution performance across brokers, algorithms, liquidity pools and asset classes, with ease.
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About RealTick
RealTick is the electronic trading industry’s premier global, broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System (EMS). RealTick’s unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front-to-back solution, including sophisticated trading tools; unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers, exchanges, ECNs and ATSs, plus alternative pools of liquidity; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick EMS is supported by state-of-the-art global data centers and a redundant network for ultimate stability and resiliency.
For more information, visit www.realtick.com.
*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

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For additional information contact:

RealTick:
Rustam Lam, Director
+44 (0) 20 7786 5091
rlam@realtick.com

RealTick Launches Advanced Options Functionality For Multi-Asset Trading In Latest 9.3 Release

4/23/2010 10:44:03 AM

London, April 21, 2010 — RealTick® (www.realtick.com), the leading global multi-broker, cross-asset class electronic trading platform has expanded its options functionality, providing RealTick clients with advanced execution capabilities and tools for trading in European, Asian and US markets.

RealTick 9.3 includes enhanced spread trading capabilities, allowing users to view and interact with the ISE spread (complex order) book, facilitating multi-legged options strategies. In addition, RealTick now provides an indicative spread montage across exchanges for enhanced use of RealTick managed spreads. This new release also enables users to automatically delta hedge options positions. This functionality is in addition to previously available options trading benefits around US and European option trading in RealTick including real-time options analytics, volatility based trading and other broker based options algorithms.

“We continue to see accelerating multi-asset usage through RealTick. Traders are looking to increase trading opportunities and investment returns through the use of additional and linked multi-asset strategies. This package of advanced functionality is in response to that demand, providing clients with further cross asset capabilities in a single platform,” states Peter Ward, Head of International Sales at RealTick.

“In addition our broker partners want to efficiently offer a broader range of markets and electronic execution services, in particular direct to market and algorithms in options and futures markets, on top of their existing equities execution available to clients, ” continues Ward.

“Traders are looking for a single platform which is functionally rich, integrates well into their workflow and is fully configurable to their trading needs. The ability to easily execute across asset classes with chosen brokers, monitor multi-asset positions in a single blotter and have a suite of advanced trading tools, empowers clients with opportunities for better execution performance and provides a competitive advantage in executing investment strategies across equities, options and futures markets,” adds Ward.

RealTick’s global multi-broker network includes, among many others, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, BNY Convergex, CA Cheuvreux, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Instinet, JP Morgan, Knight, MF Global, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, RBC Capital Markets, Societe Generale, and UBS.

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About RealTick
RealTick is the electronic trading industry’s premier global, broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System (EMS). RealTick’s unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front-to-back solution, including sophisticated trading tools; unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers, exchanges, ECNs and ATSs, plus alternative pools of liquidity; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick EMS is supported by state-of-the-art global data centers and a redundant network for ultimate stability and resiliency.
For more information, visit www.realtick.com.
*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

RealTick
Rustam Lam, Director
+44 (0) 20 7786 5091
rlam@realtick.com

RealTick Expands Electronic Offering Through The Addition Of Goldman Sachs’ Global Futures And Options Execution

4/19/2010 10:34:32 AM

London, April 12, 2010 — RealTick® (www.realtick.com), the leading global multi-broker, cross-asset electronic trading platform has added Goldman Sachs’global futures and options execution services to their platform. RealTick clients can now use Goldman Sachs’ latest algorithms, worked and direct access execution services for futures and options markets.

"The integration of global futures and options execution adds to Goldman Sachs’ equity offering already available on RealTick, including algorithmic, worked, dark pool liquidity and direct to market execution services in global equities. This addition provides clients with the potential for broader cross asset execution opportunities and linked trading strategies, as institutions worldwide are moving to more cross asset class trading to generate additional returns for their investors.” states Peter Ward, Head of International Sales at RealTick.

"Traders increasingly demand a single, functionally rich platform which can integrate well into their workflow and trading style, across asset classes, whilst providing easy access to their list of broker partners and their execution services. Our focus at RealTick is to provide clients with rapid access to the widest network of brokers and their global electronic products across asset classes,” adds Ward.

Goldman Sachs is part of RealTick’s global multi-broker network which includes, among many others, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, CA Cheuvreux, ConvergEx Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Instinet, JP Morgan, Knight, MF Global, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, RBC Capital Markets, Societe Generale and UBS.

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About RealTick
RealTick is the electronic trading industry’s premier global, broker neutral, multi-asset Execution Management System (EMS). RealTick’s unsurpassed flexibility and customizability streamlines trader workflow by delivering a fully integrated front-to-back solution, including sophisticated trading tools; unrivalled electronic access to leading global brokers, exchanges, ECNs and ATSs, plus alternative pools of liquidity; real-time market data, news, analytics and risk management tools. Used by institutions, broker-dealers and traders worldwide, RealTick EMS is supported by state-of-the-art global data centers and a redundant network for ultimate stability and resiliency.
For more information, visit www.realtick.com.

*RealTick is a registered trademark of Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

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For more information contact:
RealTick
Rustam Lam, Director
+44 (0) 20 7786 5091
rlam@realtick.com