Orc delivers new market making application for EMEA

Orc delivers new market making application for EMEA

Orc Market Maker combines superior performance with rich off-the-shelf
functionality.

Stockholm, SWEDEN - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - Orc Group AB (SSE:
ORC), a leading provider of technology and services for the global
financial industry, today announced the availability of Orc Market Maker
for EMEA. Orc Market Maker is a high-performance solution designed to
address the most pressing challenges faced by market makers in today's
competitive markets. Developed and proven on some of the most demanding
instruments listed on EUREX, Orc Market Maker provides advanced market
leading technology off -the-shelf at a fraction of the typical cost.

Orc Market Maker features a server based quoting engine and the ability
to connect to multiple markets from a single screen. With support for
options, warrants, and structured products, Orc Market Maker can be
utilized across desks. Furthermore, customers have the choice to buy Orc
Market Maker as a managed service, thus enabling co-located,
low-latency, scalable market making across multiple markets and asset
classes with low cost of ownership.

Features also include sophisticated volatility management, robust and
accurate volatility and pricing models, and rich APIs for integration of
custom volatility and pricing models. With focus on increasing trading
efficiency, Orc Market Maker also features automated hedge management,
market taking and quote responding.

“We have developed Orc Market Maker to address the present and future
challenges of leading market makers, including their needs for
low-latency quoting and access to multiple markets worldwide,” said
Jesper Alfredsson, Vice President Product Management, Orc. ”Orc Market
Maker also offers great flexibility to suit a wide array of users; it is
delivered as an out-of-the-box application, while still offering
extensive support for developing proprietary models.”

Orc Market Maker is currently also available for North American markets,
and will be introduced in APAC during the second half of 2011.

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.

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

www.orc-group.com

 

For further information, please contact:
Jesper Alfredsson, VP Product Management, Orc, Tel. +46 739 01 02 20
Christine Blinke, VP of Marketing and Investor Relations, Orc Group. Tel
+46 739 01 02 01