The system, which went live on the 2nd October 2009, offers trading on the CME Group Nikkei 225 contract.

Trader Securities' customers will benefit from the sophisticated features available in both the J-Trader and Pro-Mark trading front-ends.

Patsystems is also delighted to be providing the J-Vision back office reporting platform which greatly simplifies the provision of Japanese regulatory reports to users. With multi-time zone and multi-currency support, J-Vision will be able to support any of the international or domestic markets to which Traders Securities wishes to connect.

The J-Vision solution leverages high availability technology from our proven exchange clearing and settlement solution in use in exchanges globally.

Duncan Symmons, Managing Director Patsystems Tokyo, said: "We are delighted to be supporting Traders Securities in launching this new Global Index Trading initiative. The trading and back office package solution has allowed Traders Securities to rapidly connect to these new markets without the typical high cost and delays of making significant changes to legacy back office systems. This new offering significantly brings down the barriers to entry for brokers looking to offer new domestic and overseas markets to their customers."

Kiyoshi Hashimoto, President Traders Securities Co, Ltd. "We are delighted to launch Global Index Trading service which enables our customers to trade the stock index futures all over the world. By using J-Trader offered by Patsystems, our customers - primarily individual investors - will be able to trade the stock index futures they desire under the same conditions as institutional investors."