According to the partner agreement, Lakeview will provide services and solutions based on Orc products to customers in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Benelux, France and Italy. Lakeview's offering will typically include customization, integration; upgrades, as well as technical and business support of Orc-based solutions. The agreement is not limited to specific products, but will include Orc Trader and Orc Liquidator products.

"Orc is the ideal partner to support our plans for expaning our state of the art trading solutions offering," said Peter van Kleef, Managing Director, Lakeview Capital. "By combining successful investment strategies with industry-leading trading technology, this broader offering should be very attractive to our clients."

"Peter van Kleef of Lakeview is widely recognized as a leading authority on algorithmic trading, based both on his solid experience and a deep theoretical knowledge of this field," said Andrea Beste, Sales Director, Germany and Switzerland. "We have cooperated successfully with Lakeview on various events in the past, and we really look forward to taking this several steps further by their joining our Orc Vantage partner program."

Orc Trading provides the competitive edge to trade from a single platform capable of running thousands of complex trading strategies simultaneously. Orc Trading is used by financial firms worldwide for enhanced trading, pricing and risk management on electronically traded derivatives.

Orc Connect is the global financial industry's leading connectivity solution. 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.