FRANKFURT, Germany and CHICAGO, August 20 /PRNewswire/ --

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading trading solutions provider, today announced that Raiffeisen Centrobank AG, a leading 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.

Gunter 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."

About RTS Realtime Systems Group

RTS is a leading trading solutions provider with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, and distribution partners in Greece, India, Italy, Japan and Taiwan. 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 nearly 100 exchanges.

For more information, please visit www.rtsgroup.net

About Raiffeisen Centro

Raiffeisen Centrobank AG is a leading issuing bank in Austria, offering the entire spectrum of services and products associated with stock, derivatives and equity capital transactions.

Web site: http://www.rtsgroup.net

Ellen G. Resnick, +1-773-929-9292, cell: +1-312-399-9295, eresnick@crystalclearPR.com, for RTS Realtime Systems Group