RTS Provides connectivity
to Mexican Derivatives Exchange

Frankfurt/Mexico City - RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading independent software vendor, and MexDer, the Mexican Derivatives Exchange, today announces the connection to MexDer's marketplace.

With the new connection to the Mexican Derivatives Exchange (MexDer), RTS is further strengthening its global reach. The increased interest and the region's continuous growing potential made it a logical step for RTS to develop its first interface for a market place in Latin America.

As a premium derivatives front-end provider RTS already offers high professional solutions to futures and options traders. Additional tools for volatility and hedging transactions including dartboard trading, options pricing, Quote Machine® and integrated Risk/Vola Management make the RTD Realtime Trading Desktop unique.

Steffen Gemünden, Co-CEO and President of RTS comments: "With the connection to MexDer, our first in the region, we are tapping into another very exciting and prosperous market. RTS is very pleased to see the positive developments in the Mexican market and is committed to support MexDer's domestic and international efforts."

Jorge Alegria, CEO of MexDer comments: "RTS's connectivity to MexDer opens up new opportunities to their customers who trade the global derivatives markets and should benefit our domestic membership as we aim to incorporate more members to help the liquidity to grow. With the recent opening of our market to remote membership, Mexico offering tax free advantages for foreigners trading MexDer and the development of a FIX interface, we see this as another very positive step forward in our overall strategy."

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 one of the pioneers in designing electronic trading tools, RTS has developed an extensive suite of products for options and futures traders. In addition RTS' software features a variety of tools, including the RTD Quote Machine®, RTD Electronic Eye®, RTD SalesTrader, and the Autohedger as well as a basket trading system. With RTD Tango, the recently launched algorithmic trading system, RTS has further strengthened its product portfolio. 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 MexDer:
MexDer, Mercado Mexicano de Derivados, S.A. de C.V., is the Mexican Derivatives Exchange which started operations on December 15th 1998, with the listing of futures contracts on financial underlying assets. MexDer has had transcendental achievements over the last years, such as: a new financial options market (March 2004), regulatory changes, a new no withholding tax scheme for overseas participants, new domestic memberships, omnibus accounts, and a remote access platform called MexFix which is based on the Financial Information eXchange protocol which allows direct access to our trading system to international clients with remote membership.

Nowadays, MexDer is one of the top ten growing futures exchanges worldwide in terms of trading volume according to the FIA.

Combining technology, liquidity, strength and reliability our market is able to offer to customers the leading marketplace for trading derivatives on Mexican benchmarks and one of the best alternatives of derivatives exchanges worldwide.

For more information about our company and our products, please visit: www.mexder.com