LONDON and CHICAGO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ --

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@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.