Rosenthal Collins Group to offer Orc Trading suite to futures clients and traders

Rosenthal Collins Group to offer Orc Trading suite to futures clients
and traders

Chicago, Monday, September 19, 2011 - Orc Group (SSE: ORC), a leading
provider of technology and services for the global financial industry,
announced today an agreement with Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC (RCG), a
leading futures commission merchant, to offer Orc's solutions to RCG's
global client base. The order was booked in Q1, 2011, and the contract
is based on Orc's licensing subscription model.

RCG will add the Orc Trading suite of products to its technology
offerings for clients, giving them a high-performance trading solution
for advanced futures spread trading, options on futures trading, market
making, and other low-latency trading strategies. Orc Spreader serves
traders needing a fast futures spread trading solution; Orc Market Maker
is designed for options market makers, including options on futures
traders; and Orc Liquidator addresses the needs of professional traders
who wish to deploy custom trading strategies.

Marty Leamy, President, Americas at Orc, notes, “RCG is a key FCM in the
advanced futures and options on futures trading space, and we're pleased
to be able to provide its user community with a fast, powerful solution
for derivatives trading. In particular, we expect our newest solutions,
Orc Spreader and Orc Market Maker, to be important solutions for its
clients.”

Maureen Downs, President of RCG, comments, “Our clients demand
low-latency, reliable trading solutions. We're happy to be able to offer
Orc's powerful trading tools to our client base.”

For further information:
For Orc: Barry Vasudevan, Marketing Director - Americas, +1 212 351
7624, barry.vasudevan@orc-group.com

For RCG: Brian Gaffud, Senior Director of Business Development,
312-795-7731, bgaffud@RCGdirect.com

 

About Orc

Orc is a leading provider of technology and services for the global
financial industry. Orc delivers trading and market access solutions
used by proprietary trading and market making firms, investment banks,
hedge funds and brokerage houses worldwide.

Available as deployed software or as managed services, Orc develops and
provides the tools needed for running profitable trading or brokerage
businesses in today's competitive and ever-changing markets.

With market presence in all major global financial centers, Orc provides
sales and support services from its offices across EMEA, the Americas
and the Asia-Pacific regions.

About Orc Group revenue model

Standard agreements follow Orc's licensing subscription model, a
flexible approach designed to streamline the customer on boarding
process and provide ease of access to software updates, together with a
mature support framework. Customers are invoiced quarterly, in advance,
and revenue allocated to the invoicing period.

Orc Group is publicly traded on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm (SSE: ORC).

www.orc-group.com

 

About Rosenthal Collins Group

With more than 80 years of experience in the futures industry, Rosenthal
Collins Group is one of the world's leading regulated Futures Commission
Merchants (FCMs) offering trading execution, clearing, brokerage,
foreign exchange, managed futures programs and a full range of
electronic trading services to institutional, commercial, professional
and retail customers around the globe. RCG holds clearing memberships on
all principal U.S. futures exchanges and has access to world futures
markets through a network of correspondent relationships. With over
30,000 active accounts and more than 150 correspondent brokerage
relationships, RCG cleared and executed more than 147 million contracts
in 2010. Further information about Rosenthal Collins Group can be found
at www.RCGdirect.com.