Raiffeisen Centrobank AG, a leading Austrian issuing bank, is now offering direct-market access trading to the Vienna Stock Exchange, using Realtime System's Group's RTD Connect solution. This enables other RTS customers to access this Xetra Electronic trading platform-based exchange.

RTS' RTD Connect solution is easy to deploy between RTS customers, simply requiring a "plug n' play interface" between two RTD servers, according to the company. Until now, Raiffeisen Centrobank had been using the high performance RTD Realtime Trading Desktop for its proprietary trading.

"With this new offering we are able to further strengthen our order routing reach, providing customers the full scope of functionality available on Xetra Vienna," stated Gunger Englhart, responsible for order routing for Raiffeisen Centrobank. Further order routing destinations are available on request, he said.