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Tbricks to offer trading access to the new alternative market BATS Europe Stockholm, Sweden, October 10th, 2008 — Tbricks, the provider of next generation automated trading systems, today announced that it has added BATS Europe to its list of certified trading venues. The Tbricks solution has been devised for automated proprietary trading and targets proprietary trading firms, proprietary trading desks at banks and high-frequency trading hedge funds. They can now leverage Tbricks’ direct connectivity to ensure minimal latency to the BATS Europe marketplace. Jonas Hansbo, CEO of Tbricks, says: “We are very happy to report that we are already certified for this new exciting market place and are looking forward to the go-live of BATS Europe on October 31st. This is yet another step in making the European markets for execution services even more competitive. We at Tbricks are convinced that our clients will find great value in directly accessing a new liquidity pool based on a proven and blistering fast trading platform.” “We are pleased that Tbricks is committed to working with us to bring users to the highly efficient, low latency BATS system,” said Mark Hemsley, chief executive of BATS’ European Markets division. “As we’ve done in the US, our goal in Europe is to Make Markets Better with a trading platform where all market participants are welcome and can successfully employ their trading strategies. We believe agreements such as this one are a significant step in the right direction.” Tbricks launched its premiere product—the Tbricks Genesis automated trading system—earlier this year. Tbricks is initially focusing its activities on financial institutions engaging in proprietary trading. For further information, contact: Urs Rutschmann, COO Tbricks, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +41 79 461 78 11 Randy Williams, VP, Sales & Communications, BATS, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 212 378-8522 About Tbricks Tbricks’ mission is to provide professionals with the most user-friendly and efficient tools for executing automated trading strategies on the financial markets. Tbricks is a privately funded company. The firm has more than 25 employees and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with development facilities in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Tbricks Genesis automated trading was launched in February and is already in operational use. For more information about Tbricks, please visit: www.tbricks.com About BATS BATS Holdings is an innovative global financial markets technology company based in Kansas City, Mo., with additional offices in New York and London. The BATS Trading ECN platform was launched in January 2006 and is one of the fastest-growing, top-tier equity markets in the United States. Recently approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission and scheduled to launch as a national securities exchange in October 2008, the company also has plans for a European launch in October 2008 through its wholly owned subsidiary based in London. 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. BATS … Making Markets Better. For more information about BATS Europe, please visit www.batstrading.co.uk [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
