REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 15, 2008 – Fortex, Inc., the leading provider of independent, real-time multi-asset trading platforms, today announced that daily currency trading on its Fortex FX trading platform exceeded $5 billion in March. In spite of market uncertainty and the woes associated with the subprime mortgage industry, the company’s approach to providing FX traders with direct access to global liquidity pools has delivered ten-fold growth in approximately 24 months.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 19, 2008 – As the result of successful STP integration with many of the world’s leading banks, Fortex, Inc., the leading provider of independent, real-time multi-asset trading platforms, today announced that its clients can now take full advantage of prime brokerage services. Fortex clients can trade directly with top-tier global banks for better pricing and liquidity while minimizing credit risk and significantly improving their profit margins.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct 1, 2008 – Fortex, Inc., the leading provider of independent, real-time multi-asset trading platforms, today announced that its average daily FX trading volume hit $12 billion by the end of June, more than doubling its previous high of $5 billion at the end of March.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., August 18, 2009 – Fortex, Inc., the leading provider of independent, real-time multi-asset trading platforms, today announced that it has deployed its high-performance, low-latency Fortex FX platform for Advanced Markets, LLC, a leading provider of direct market access FX (FX DMA) trading services. Using the Fortex FX platform, Advanced Markets provides a fully transparent, low-latency FX DMA model for online institutional and individual FX traders.

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., February 3, 2011 – Fortex, Inc., the leading provider of independent, real-time multi-asset trading platforms, today announced that it has deployed its high-performance, low-latency Fortex FX platform for Sun Hung Kai Financial (“SHKF”), the leading non-bank financial institution in Hong Kong. The Fortex deployment enables SHKF to become the first provider of direct market access FX (FX DMA) trading services in Asia.

CHARLOTTE, NC and REDWOOD CITY, Calif–May 28, 2012 – Advanced Markets, LLC, a leading provider of foreign exchange direct market access (DMA) and Fortex, Inc., a leading independent developer of real-time, multi-asset trading platforms, today announced the release of UltiMT, a technology, liquidity and credit offering that enables banks and brokers to provide MetaTrader front-end system traders with direct, high-speed access to multibank foreign exchange and precious metals pricing and trade executions.

Anthony, what is UltiMT and why does its unified system architecture represent a major leap forward?