FRANKFURT, Germany, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Solution Provider Hits Another Milestone

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading trading solutions provider,
announced today that it is the first trading solutions provider that has
passed the conformance test for the NYSE Euronext Universal Trading
Platform's Common Customer Gateway via UTP-Direct protocol. The newly
designed Universal Trading Platform replaced the market platform NSC for NYSE
Euronext's European cash regulated market.

On December 8, 2008, all European bonds were transferred onto the new
trading platform. The migration of equities and ETFs was completed on
February 16, 2009. The Universal Trading Platform will also power NYSE
Euronext's new pan-European MTFs, NYSE Arca Europe and the company's U.S.
equities trading platform.

When the roll-out of the Universal Trading Platform on all NYSE Euronext
markets is completed, traders will benefit from the new platform's advanced
features, which include greater speed and efficiency, to trade cash and
derivatives products across Europe and the United States. RTS will offer
customers direct access through the low-latency UTP-Direct protocol to all of
NYSE Euronext's markets trading on the Universal Trading Platform. The
protocol will be available through RTS data centers, providing true direct
market access.

RTS, a provider which recognizes the importance and value of providing
technology hosting and proximity services, offers traders the ability to
deploy the event-driven RTS algorithmic trading application RTD Tango out of
its global data centers to further enhance performance and reduce costs.

Sudhir Chotoe, Sales Director at RTS, said: "RTS offers a true
cutting-edge solution package that enables traders to benefit from
innovative algorithmic trading solutions, profit from turnkey hosting
services and access a wide range of trading instruments asset classes across
the world."

Anthony Attia, Executive Director and Head of the Universal Trading
Platform Program at NYSE Euronext, said: "The Universal Trading Platform
offers our customers a new-generation electronic trading platform, providing
additional functionalities, increased capacity and lower latency. We are
pleased to see RTS's early involvement in providing our customers with the
UTP-Direct protocol. This new protocol enables our customers to benefit from
the lowest possible trading latency on the Universal Trading Platform."

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 over 100 exchanges.

For more information, please visit www.rtsgroup.net.

About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) offers a broad and growing array of financial
products and services in cash equities, futures, options, exchange-traded
products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions, all
designed to meet the evolving needs of issuers, investors and financial
institutions. Spanning multiple asset classes and six countries, NYSE
Euronext's exchanges include the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Liffe,
Euronext and NYSE Arca.

For more information, please visit www.euronext.com.