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Colt is opening network routes between London and Frankfurt, and Paris and Brussels, which it claims provide the lowest latency in the market and which are already attracting customers from trading firms. Leveraging optical fibre technology from California’s Infinera, the London to Frankfurt route offers latency of 4.22 milliseconds between endpoints at London’s Poplar Business Park and Schmidstrasse in Frankfurt. The Malakoff (Paris) to Anderlecht (Brussels) route operates at a latency of 2.65ms. Both will be open by the first week of September.
Frankfurt-based asset manager Lupus alpha is working with data centre service provider Interxion to optimise its critical IT applications and ensure low-latency connectivity for its institutional and retail investment strategies.
With the recent launch of its Financial Markets Framework, IBM is positioning itself as a provider of pre-integrated solutions to trading and investment firms, leveraging its own portfolio of hardware and software offerings, and augmenting them with consulting expertise and partner products. The move follows a direction that the IT giant has already taken in verticals such as banking, insurance, and outside of financial services.
A-Team’s Pete Harris talks about transparency, efficiency and the network effect and how it enables frictionless trading at a lower cost at SunGard’s New York City Day.
Atrium Network’s addition of FXCM to its list of foreign exchange connections is part of the French connectivity provider’s ongoing expansion both in terms of asset class and geography. FXCM will use Atrium’s extranet to connect its North Bergen, New Jersey, data centre to Atrium points of presence (POPs) in the New York/New Jersey metro area.
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