RTS Provides Low Latency Connectivity to BATS Europe MTF

RTS Further Strengthens Coverage to European Equity Venues

LONDON and CHICAGO, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- RTS Realtime Systems Group, a
leading trading solutions provider, announced the successful completion of
conformance testing to provide connectivity to BATS Europe, a fast-growing
European multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by BATS Global Markets.

BATS Europe currently offers trading in more than 800 of the most liquid
European securities. Participants include proprietary trading houses, bulge
bracket brokers and smaller broker dealers.

To access the BATS Europe trading platform, RTS customers can utilise the
firm's Realtime Trading Desktop (RTD) portfolio, including the RTD-API's, the
RTD front-end trading system, and RTD Tango, the high-performance automated
algorithmic trading solution.

Said Steffen Gemuenden, RTS CEO and President: "RTS is pleased once again to
provide access to an important new trading venue that offers our customers
valuable trading choices throughout the European equity marketplace. We also
look forward to upcoming connectivity to BATS Exchange in the US."

Paul O'Donnell, Chief Operating Officer of BATS Europe, said: "Like BATS
Exchange in the US, our goal is to Make Markets Better with a trading platform
where all market participants are welcome and can successfully employ their
trading strategies. With access to the growing pool of liquidity on our market
now available via RTS, we encourage RTS' customers to subscribe to BATS Europe
quickly to begin benefitting from our high performance, low latency trading
platform."

BATS Europe recently announced continued growth, hitting one-day market share
highs for the FTSE100 (3.9% on April 28), CAC40 (4.16% on April 16), DAX
(3.75% on March 24) and Amsterdam AEX (3.80% on April 15) indices. BATS
Exchange is the third largest US securities exchange, with 10-12% matched
market share.

BATS Europe will soon join RTS for its European "MTF Roundtable Series" hosted
in Frankfurt (May 19), Amsterdam (May 20) and London (June 10). For more
information please visit www.rtsgroup.net or email info@rtsgroup.net.

About RTS Realtime Systems Group

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

For more information, please visit www.rtsgroup.net

About BATS

BATS Global Markets (BATS) is an innovative global financial markets
technology company headquartered in the Kansas City, Mo., area with additional
offices in New York and London.

The BATS platform was launched in January 2006 and, operating as BATS
Exchange, Inc., is one of the fastest growing, top tier equity markets in the
United States. BATS serves the European market through its London based,
FSA-authorised subsidiary, BATS Europe, which operates a Multilateral Trading
Facility for European securities.

The BATS platform is internally developed by a dedicated core team of market
and technology professionals, catering to the needs of the broker-dealer and
trading community.

For further information, please visit
www.batstrading.com

SOURCE RTS Realtime Systems Group

Ellen G. Resnick of Crystal Clear Communications, +1-773-929-9292 (o),
+1-312-399-9295 (c), eresnick@crystalclearPR.com