Steffen Gemuenden
Chairman & CEO
RTS Realtime Systems Group

What a year this has been! We consider ourselves very fortunate that, despite the extraordinary volatility, the state of the global economy and the reverberations throughout the financial services sector this fall, RTS has fared well. Our diversified and growing base of products and services continue to meet the evolving needs of banks, brokers, traders, CTAs, hedge funds, exchanges and other market participants.

We also recognize that our clients are facing tremendous pressure to keep their costs down and maximize efficiencies. To that end, our data center offering has grown in popularity as clients turn to us for a hosted solution that combines robust technology with speed, low latency and access to multiple marketplaces.

In this issue, we discuss our newest data center expansions and offer a closer look at Equinix, the company that houses several of ours data centers. We are especially pleased to share with you information about MATLAB®, the high-level technical computing language and interactive environment that will soon be incorporated into our RTD Tango algorithmic trading solution. We also take a look at the new ONN.TV offering and share highlights from our “Market Chat” series during the 24th Annual Futures and Options Expo last month.

It was great to see so many of you at our algorithmic trading seminars co-hosted with partners and exchanges across the world. We enjoyed the interaction with all attendees and are already planning the next series. For updates on this and other RTS developments, visit our newly rebranded, website www.rtsgroup.net.

On behalf of all of us at RTS, we wish you a joyous holiday season and a happy and healthy new year. We look forward to working with you in 2009.