Centrosim is utilizing Orc Trading technology tools including Orc Trader and via Orc Connect, market connections for the Italian Derivatives Market (IDEM), Italian Stock Exchange (MTA), Securitised Derivatives Exchange (SeDeX), and the Mercato Alternativo del Capitale (MAC). Plans are also underway for non-membership market access via Orc Connect to SEB for the major European and North American financial markets (Euronext.liffe, Eurex and CME-CBOT).

"Orc Software provides the powerful and reliable trading, risk management and market access infrastructure to drive our business forward," says Mr Enrico Rugo, Head of Operations Direction at Centrosim. "Over time Orc has satisfied our demands and proven the trading and risk management capabilities of the Orc Trader solution. Through Orc Connect we will now leverage a liquidity access solution that delivers all the benefits of fast, reliable connectivity for non-market-members."

"We are pleased Centrosim continues to utilize Orc Trader for pricing and quoting sophisticated products," says Matteo Carcano, Orc Software's President for Western Europe. "Orc Trading meets the highest market demands for pricing and risk management on electronically traded derivatives, while providing competitive edge to trade from a single platform, on any listed instrument, cross-asset class, on 100+ markets."

Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide customers with the tools for making the best trading and connectivity decisions... strong analytics, unmatched market access, powerful automated trading functionality, high performance futures and options trading capabilities, ultra-low latency, and risk management.

Orc Connect provides traders and brokers with fast, reliable access to liquidity pools, both for market members and non-members, in the critical areas of execution, market data and reference data.

Orc's customers include leading worldwide investment banks, trading and market-making firms, exchanges, brokerage houses, institutional investors and hedge funds.