In order to manage the risk of future price movements in non-ferrous metals, RTS says it is offering a professional trading platform, the RTD Realtime Trading Desktop.

With special designed futures and options functionality in combination with an integrated risk & vola management tool, RTS says its solution will offer traders highly sophisticated trading functionality.

Steffen Gemuenden, deputy CEO of RTS, commented: With the addition of LME we continue to give our customers access to an ever more varied and complete selection of exchanges. The reality is a trader can now buy and sell financial instruments, energy products and now precious metals all from a single application.

Mr Gemuenden also revealed that the first company to put this live will be Fortis Bank Global Clearing NV.