RTS Realtime Systems Group Hosts London Roundtable Featuring MTFs and Equity Exchanges

LONDON and CHICAGO, June 2 -- With MiFID now well into its second year, RTS Realtime Systems Group on June 10 is hosting the third and final event in a series of original roundtable discussions, The MTF Roundtable Series 2009, to evaluate the impact of the directive on the European cash equity markets. The first-of-its-kind series of roundtables feature discussion and debate about issues affecting the entire trading community with senior officials from all of the major Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) as well as their counterparts at European equity exchanges, together on a panel for the first time.

The roundtable will take place in London in conjunction with International Derivatives Week on June 10 at 2:15 p.m. London time at the Barbican Centre on Silk Street.

The concept of MiFID was implemented in a period of economic growth and prosperity to achieve greater price transparency, increase investor protection, ensure best execution and open up a market that was perceived to be mainly controlled by a few big players.

  Key topics of the roundtables will be:

  --  Taking a step back - has MiFID succeeded? Is Best Execution working?
  --  What has MiFID meant for the buy side - better value or lots of
      headaches and technology cost?
  --  What is the future for traditional exchanges?
  --  MTFs or traditional exchanges- who is using them and why?
  --  Smart Order Routing - smart enough?
  --  Best Execution: Explicit vs. implicit trading costs
  --  Sponsored access, co-location, risk management

The discussion will be moderated by John Howard, CEO and Publisher of Automated Trader Magazine. Panelists will include:

  --  ARCA Europe - Cees Vermaas, Executive Director, Sales & Relationship
      Management
  --  BATS - Mark Hemsley, CEO, BATS European Markets Division
  --  Chi-X - Hirander Misra, COO
  --  London Stock Exchange (LSE) - Hugh Brown, Head of Secondary Market
      Production Development
  --  Nasdaq OMX - Todd Golub, COO
  --  Turquoise - Eli Lederman, CEO

  --  Xetra - Michael Krogmann, Executive Director - Head of Sales, XETRA
      Market Development

  Market participants can RSVP to events at rtsgroup.net.

  About RTS Realtime Systems Group

RTS is a leading trading solutions provider with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm and 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.