Sky Road and Marketcetera Release Hosted Trading Solution for Cross-Asset Portfolio Management

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and NEW YORK, NY and CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - August 10, 2009) - Sky Road LLC, a leading solutions provider to the financial community and Marketcetera, the leader in open source platforms for automated trading, have integrated Marketcetera's open source automated trading platform with Sky Road's solutions for cross-asset portfolio management, supporting trading, risk, and operations functions.

"As the financial services landscape continues to evolve and as firms face new pressures, we are finding that financial institutions are increasingly in need of solutions that provide speed of implementation, flexibility, scalability, and comprehensive trading capabilities," says John Borse, CEO of Sky Road. "By developing a solution with Marketcetera, we are now able to offer even more advanced trading capabilities to our clients."

Sky Road is leveraging Marketcetera's open source automated trading platform to expand Sky Road's offerings to include enhanced trading functionality, such as electronic trade capture, order management and order routing. The two firms' shared clients will benefit from the joint offering by now being able to utilize Marketcetera's leading edge trading technology via Sky Road's robust hosted platform.

"We see a huge potential in the marketplace for hosted trading solutions, as evidenced by the SaaS platform we rolled out to our high frequency trading customers last month," said Graham Miller, CEO of Marketcetera. "By mashing up our platform with their own technologies to offer more visibility and control, Sky Road has demonstrated that they share our vision and understand the value of using alternative delivery channels to provide better trading capabilities to the marketplace."

About Sky Road LLC

Sky Road LLC (www.skyroadasp.com) is a leading software-as-a-service solutions provider to the financial community. Sky Road has the unique ability to customize solutions to the needs of its clients. The Sky Road Platform, an integrated technology solution, provides firms trading sophisticated cross-asset strategies with front to back office functionality, portfolio management, custom reporting, market data integration, prime broker and fund administrator connectivity, and infrastructure for disaster recovery. Sky Road Energy provides power market professionals with a software-as-a-service solution offering pre-trade analysis and research tools for power markets. Sky Road partners with leading global software and market data vendors and has clients ranging from start-up hedge funds to multi-billion dollar institutions.

About Marketcetera

Marketcetera (www.marketcetera.com) provides open source software for automated trading systems. By providing maximum flexibility and technology choice to financial services institutions of all sizes, Marketcetera's platform lets brokers and traders build effective automated trading systems, develop proprietary algorithms, create order management solutions and manage risk faster, easier and at much lower cost than with closed platforms.