Steffen Gemuenden
Chairman & CEO
RTS Realtime Systems Group

With Spring comes new life, and we are pleased to share with you in this issue of Screenshot a feature on the new life we’ve brought to our front-end trading solutions. Based on customer feedback, the extensive technology enhancements and new features are designed to generate increased efficiencies for our broad range of customers, while offering greater functionality and enhanced speed. Please take the time to read about the new capabilities to ensure that you’re able to take advantage of all that interest you.

As we close the first quarter, we have been quite busy this year already. In addition to the technology upgrade, we have forged important new partnerships such as those with The MathWorks MATLAB and First Insight.  These partnerships can play an important role in giving proprietary and algorithmic traders “the edge” by incorporating valuable data directly into their trading strategies.

Also in the first quarter, we completed the successful launch of the next generation front-end technology for MexDer. We believe that Latin America presents our clients with vast opportunities, as detailed in “Latin America on the Horizon”.

We kicked off the year with the first edition of the 2009 series of algorithmic trading seminars in New York. As we continue this series, we are also launching a new series of Webinars to allow for maximum participation, and we share in this issue a schedule of upcoming seminars and webinars. These programs not only provide general information on the subjects but enable participants to interact with presenters.

I hope you enjoy the read and have a wonderful springtime.