LONDON, September 3 /PRNewswire/ --

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading trading solutions provider,
announced that the Kyte Group Limited (Kyte), a major UK-based clearing firm
for derivatives and equities, has deployed RTS technology to offer direct
market access (DMA) to European equities via the Merrill Lynch X-Direct
trading platform.

Commented Peter Green, Kyte Group Chief Executive: "We are pleased to
further build our relationship with RTS. By deploying its equities
connectivity and trading tools, our clients can enjoy increased market reach
for both outright trading and hedging."

Kyte's clients include proprietary trading firms, banks, hedge fund
managers and market makers. The firm also offers institutional brokerage
services.

RTS has provided Kyte's clients with its high-performance, feature rich
trading platform, the RTD Realtime Trading Desktop, along with application
programming interfaces (APIs) and RTD Tango, the automated, event-based
algorithmic trading engine. The RTS FIX connectivity to Merrill Lynch
X-Direct enables Kyte to offer low latency, electronic access to European
equities, including those listed on the LSE, OMX, and MTA. In addition, plans
are underway for Kyte to add RTS-provided access to U.S. equity markets.

Darren Simons, RTS UK Sales Manager, said: "We are delighted to expand on
our relationship with Kyte and to bring our high-performance, multi-asset
class technology together with Merrill Lynch's low-latency DMA."

About RTS Realtime Systems Group

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

About Kyte Group Limited

The Kyte Group Limited is an independent Futures Commission Merchant
(FCM) offering clearing and execution services on the world's most prominent
cash and derivatives exchanges. The company is a leading agency clearer on
LIFFE, Eurex, CME and ICE and a premier broker to Tier 1 banks, hedge funds
and professional traders. Kyte manages external investors' funds through its
Kyte Capital Advisors LLP subsidiary and also seeds, manages and markets
hedge funds in the alternative investment world.

Kyte is a major force in today's exchange-traded cash and derivatives
arena, covering equities, CFDs, equity indices, fixed-income derivatives,
short-term interest rate products, commodity futures and options, cash bonds
and spot FX.

For more information, please visit www.kytegroup.com

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