Equinix EF-eXchange News (Europe)

The Summer 2008 newsletter is out today - some highlights:

>>Since the last issue of our quarterly EF-eXchange newsletter, we’ve seen a number of major organisations sign up with Equinix and join our Financial eXchange community. Recent successes include Chi-X Europe, which has selected our new London datacentre to provide a scalable platform to support its pan-European equity multi-lateral trading facility (MTF). Additionally, several major exchanges and trading platforms have partnered with Equinix in Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York.

>>And because Equinix is the only major financial datacentre operator that’s working across all of the world’s top ten financial centres, we’re proving increasingly attractive as a network connectivity venue for exchanges that need to reach their base both within and outside of their regions. Because of this, we’re finding that organisations are no longer prepared to limit themselves by aligning with more traditional hosted data locations.
Instead they’re choosing Equinix enhanced colocation and network connectivity that can improve the ‘vascular’ performance of their electronic order flow and remove the constrictions that result from the limited carrier and network connectivity.
We’re excited that our Financial eXchange offering is at the heart of this drive, and that each new member of our global community is bringing further value for existing members. We hope you find this second issue of EF-eXchange News useful. If you’d like to contribute to our next issue – or would like to comment on anything you’ve read here, feel free to contact us at
efx@eu.equinix.com

>>New PartnerS

Merrill Lynch have launched a proximity hosting solution at the Equinix Frankfurt datacentre, addressing the need for ultra low latency connectivity to exchanges. Merrill Lynch are offering unparalleled direct market access to the Eurex and Xetra exchanges for the Equinix Financial eXchange clients. The latency improvement over a London access point is in excess of 30%, with simple connectivity options allowing quick start up. This execution capability forms part of Merrill Lynch’s overall offering with financing and clearing services for exchange members and non-exchange members alike. If there are any questions please contact eurodma@ml.com.

QuantHouse is an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions. This includes ultra low latency market data technologies, algo-trading development framework, infrastructure and professional services to help hedge funds, proprietary desks as well as low latency sensitive sell side firms trade ahead.

Founded in 1999, CJC is a leading consultancy operating exclusively in the market data sector. Their expert team has more than 250 years experience working with all market data systems, which they deploy on behalf of clients and vendors. Through strategic partnerships, CJC support client operations across all time zones, delivering 24-hour, ‘follow the sun’ technical services that meet the needs of today’s always-on financial markets.