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CameronTec Group is the global standard in FIX connectivity incorporating trading technology and professional services that today powers the largest user base among financial institutions.
Uniquely positioned as a software and service provider for enterprise, hosted and managed platforms, our dedicated professional services team ensures optimal integration and deployment performance.
Catalys is our flagship offering, underpinned by our market-leading connectivity technology and engineered on the widely acknowledged standard in FIX engines, CameronFIX.
The Greenline FIX integration, testing and management solutions, comprising VeriFIX®, CertiFIX®, MagniFIX®, MetriFIX® and Exchange Central, build out our offering to provide end-to-end global connectivity solutions for any electronic trading environment using or migrating to FIX and proprietary protocols.
Catalys Market Access offers FIX-powered gateways to more than 60 equity, derivative and FX markets across the globe, as a locally deployed or managed, hosted service.
Our solutions are tested and trusted by the world’s best firms in over 50 countries, on all five continents, that represent the broadest cross section of tier 1 and 2 investment banks, brokers, fund managers, exchanges, regulators, and the ISV community.
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Exceptional trading, investment and information solutions for the world’s financial community.
New technology, new regulation, new challenges: making money in today’s financial markets is all about staying ahead of the curve. Having the capability to spot new trends and act fast turns change into opportunity. That’s why 85% of the world’s premier financial institutions trust Fidessa to provide them with their multi-asset trading and investment infrastructure, their market data and analysis, and their decision making and workflow technology. It's also why $12 trillion worth of transactions flow across our global network each year. Because we’re the market leader, we can also offer unique access to the world’s largest and most valuable trading community of buy-side and sell-side professionals, from global institutions and investment banks to boutique brokers and niche hedge funds.
Fidessa is a global business with scale, resilience, ambition and expertise. We’ve delivered around 25% compound growth since our stock market listing in 1997 and we're recognised as the thought leader in our space. We set the benchmark with our unrivalled set of mission-critical products and services and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities. Ongoing investment in our leading-edge, integrated solutions ensures Fidessa remains the industry's number one choice.
fidessa.com
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As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management services worldwide. In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 30 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.
Advanced Execution Services® (AES) is Credit Suisse's award-winning suite of algorithmic trading strategies, tools, and analytics for global trading across equities, options, futures and foreign exchange. With AES's tools, traders can improve performance versus benchmarks, work orders on multiple liquidity pools, and add consistency to the trading process. The AES team is dedicated to a philosophy of constant improvement and innovation. AES continues to evolve as new trends develop in the marketplace and as our research teams discover more effective trading techniques. This is why AES has been recognized consistently as the leader in algorithmic trading. For more information please contact AES® Trading Desk +852 2101 7258 / (toll free) +800 222 2334. |
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Financial Markets Solutions
With its sophisticated financial markets software solutions, IRESS services a full range of professional and non-professional financial participants.
The IRESS tool suite supports retail, institutional and operator traders, with solutions that are delivered via the desktop, web or mobile device. These solutions offer:
▪ Global market data
▪ Buy-side and sell-side order management (OMS and EMS)
▪ Direct exchange connectivity
▪ FIX (Financial Information eXchange) based routing
▪ Smart order routing (BMR)
The extensive IRESS FIX Interface provides direct connectivity between IRESS clients, global order routing systems and clients' internal order systems. IRESS offers FIX connectivity for all its order management solutions, and IRESS clients can choose to manage their FIX connectivity via a front-end administration module that seamlessly integrates into IRESS’ products.
IRESS is the market leader in equity and derivative systems in Australasia. Globally, IRESS has significant client bases in Canada and South Africa, and a growing business in Asia with operations centred in Hong Kong and Singapore. |
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Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,300 offices in 42 countries.
Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) provides a complete spectrum of services from pre-trade analytics and execution to post-trade execution performance analysis and commission management. We offer a comprehensive algorithmic trading suite and various direct market access (DMA) strategies, including our smart order routing technology and our dark liquidity pool aggregator. Whether you are connecting to us via a third-party order management system or using our Morgan Stanley Passport execution management system, our global product offering provides seamless access to trade portfolios, single stocks, ETFs, options, futures, swaps, and foreign exchange. Our team is committed to providing stellar trading solutions for the most demanding specifications. |
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Macquarie Group is a global financial services provider. It acts primarily as an investment intermediary for institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world.
Macquarie has built a uniquely diversified business. It has established leading market positions as a global specialist in a wide range of sectors, including resources, agriculture and commodities, energy and infrastructure, with a deep knowledge of Asia-Pacific financial markets. Macquarie’s diverse range of services includes corporate finance and advisory, equities research and broking, funds and asset management, foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities trading, lending and leasing and private wealth management.
Macquarie Group Limited is listed in Australia (ASX:MQG; ADR:MQBKY) and is regulated by APRA, the Australian banking regulator, as the owner of Macquarie Bank Limited, an authorised deposit taker. Macquarie also owns a bank in the UK, Macquarie Bank International Limited, which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.
Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs more than 13,900 people in 28 countries. At 31 March 2014, Macquarie had assets under management of $A427 billion. |
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The company was founded to deliver software defined cloud networking solutions for large data center and computing environments. Arista's award-winning 10/40/100 GbE switches redefine scalability, robustness, and price-performance, with over 2000 customers and more than one million cloud networking ports being deployed worldwide. At the core of Arista’s platform is EOS, the world’s most advanced network operating system. Arista Networks products are available worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers.
ARISTA, EOS and Spline are among the registered and unregistered trademarks of Arista Networks, Inc. in jurisdictions around the world. Other company names or product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
www.aristanetworks.com
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| Liquidnet is the global institutional trading network that connects over 700 of the world's top asset managers to large-scale equity trading opportunities across the globe - 42 markets across five continents. Liquidnet is a leader in large block trading globally going beyond what the retail market can provide by defending and securing the integrity and the anonymity of the block trade while continuously looking for ways to bring in new sources of safe, actionable liquidity from asset management firms, exchanges, brokers and corporations. For more information, visit www.liquidnet.com. |
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| TORA is Asia's leading provider of advanced trading technology and financial services. TORA's unrivalled solutions span the entire trading process, offering a full suite of trade execution capabilities in markets across Asia, North America and Europe. TORA's high-performance EMS/OMS has been designed from the ground up by traders, and is currently used by traders at hedge funds, long-only funds and sell-side proprietary trading desks. TORA also provides clients with access to its unique liquidity pools including Asia's leading non-displayed matching engine. TORA's dedicated Asia trading desk delivers to buy-side clients unmatched Asia expertise and extensive analytics focused on best execution. TORA's extensive suite of proprietary algorithms (trading and strategy-focused) is fully customizable and broker neutral. TORA has over 210 employees dedicated to Asia, with offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Romania, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Additional information is available at www.tora.com. |
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Trader Instinct™ - The Global Equities Trading and Consulting Platform
Trader Instinct™
When you Execute with Instinct® through Merrill Lynch, you have a global platform of trading professionals and tools to help you access the natural liquidity provided by one the world’s largest private client and institutional networks. Our Trader Instinct™ platform helps you to achieve high quality execution by drawing on our expansive market presence, knowledge and experience, trading acumen and strategies, financial capital and liquidity destinations. All delivered through one smart global platform that continually adapts to real-time market signals to align your trade objectives and conviction. |
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About Bloomberg
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 319,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions build on the company’s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively.
In today's changing and complex regulatory landscape, the Bloomberg Professional service offers an unmatched desktop solution to monitor, assess and manage risk. Bloomberg was the first to receive approval from Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and operate a multi-asset swap execution facility (SEF).
For more information, visit www.bloomberg.com. The Bloomberg Professional service is owned and distributed by Bloomberg Finance L.P. |
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ITG is an independent broker partnering with global portfolio managers and traders throughout the investment process, from investment decision through to settlement. With our launch of the POSIT® crossing network in 1987, we founded ITG with a strong commitment to empower buyside investors. And over the years, we’ve continued to deepen that commitment by creating a powerful network of intellectual capital, true industry experience, and market-leading technology to offer the unmatched insights that help clients generate and preserve alpha.
With 17 offices in 10 countries and multi-asset capabilities that support the needs of large equity portfolios, we combine the power of global reach with the precision of local vision. Bringing together market-leading tools and unmatched expertise, we have helped clients understand market trends, improve performance, mitigate risk, and navigate increasingly complex markets.
We are your trusted, independent partner offering objective insights and guidance through complicated and changing global market structures. |
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| As the equity execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated’s subsidiaries provide independent, agency-only brokerage services to clients throughout the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading tools, experienced high-touch trading group and unparalleled access to insightful content and unique agency-only liquidity, Instinet helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Over the course of its 40+ year history, Instinet has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies as well as the world’s first major electronic trading venue, one of the first U.S. ECNs and, most recently, the Chi-X businesses. |
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Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
ASX is one of the world’s leading financial market exchanges offering a full suite of services, including listings, trading, clearing and settlement, across a comprehensive range of asset classes. As the first major financial market open every day, ASX is a world leader in raising capital, consistently ranking among the top five exchanges globally.
ASX’s Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC) is Australia’s only purpose-built finance data centre. It puts businesses at the heart of the financial markets community with over 100 customers within the ALC, and over 200 financial market specialists from across the world connected via ASX’s low latency network, ASX Net.
ASX Net provides businesses with an unparalleled link into the financial markets. It links to more than just ASX’s world-class services. It can provide direct connection to alternative liquidity venues, brokerage firms, data vendors and application service providers, plus the global markets via ASX Net Global.
ASX Centre Point, Australia’s largest mid-point matching system, is built to deliver a superior trading outcome. It offers a suite of advanced order types designed to maximise price improvement, protect against information leakage and uncover natural block liquidity.
Follow us on Twitter @ASX or www.asx.com.au |
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| BSE is India's fastest exchange with a response time of 200 microseconds. BSE had played a prominent role in developing the Indian capital market. BSE is a corporatized and demutualised entity, with a broad shareholder-base which includes two leading global exchanges, Deutsche Bourse and Singapore Exchange as strategic partners. BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, debt instruments, equity derivatives, currency derivatives, interest rate derivatives, mutual funds and stock lending and borrowing. BSE also has a dedicated platform for trading in equities of small-and-medium enterprises (SME). BSE provides a host of other services to capital market participants including risk management, clearing, settlement, market data services and education. It has a global reach with customers around the world and a nation-wide presence. BSE systems and processes are designed to safeguard market integrity, drive the growth of the Indian capital market and stimulate innovation and competition across all market segments. Indian Clearing Corporation Limited, the wholly owned subsidiary of BSE, acts as the central counterparty to all trades executed on BSE platform and provides full novation guaranteeing the settlement of all bonafide trades executed on the BSE Platform. BSE Institute Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of BSE, runs one of the most respected capital market educational institutes in the country. Central Depository Services Ltd. (CDSL), a subsidiary of is one of the two central depository services in India. |
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Headquartered in Hong Kong, Telstra's international operations is part of Telstra Corporation Limited, a leading telecommunications and information services company in Australia. We provide top-tier international customers across Asia Pacific, Europe and the US with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions including managed network services, data, voice, and satellite solutions.
Through our strategic investments over the years, we now own one of the most technologically advanced IP backbone networks in the world, through a number of global subsidiaries. We have licenses in Asia, Europe and the Americas and facilitate access to more than 2,000 PoPs in 230 countries and territories across the globe.
Our focus is on growth opportunities within Asia through onward investments, deploying disruptive technologies in the region and across the world, and growing international and local customer relationships.
Our success story comes from our deep understanding and experience in the Asian market for more than 30 years. We consider Asia to be a key growth market - both for Telstra as well as our customers – due to the region's vast economic potential, particularly in the current global financial climate. Within Asia, Telstra has the flexibility, agility and expertise to serve customers operating in the region as well as businesses from Europe, the Americas and other global companies looking to expand into Asia. |
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| Markit is a leading global diversified provider of financial information services. We provide products that enhance transparency, reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. Our customers include banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, auditors, fund administrators and insurance companies. Founded in 2003, we employ over 3,000 people in 11 countries. For more information, please see www.markit.com. |
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J.P. Morgan’s Electronic Client Solutions (ECS) designs, distributes and services leading-edge analytics, execution and liquidity products globally to J.P. Morgan’s institutional trading clients. The complete ECS suite of electronic products is designed to source liquidity effectively across an ever-changing landscape of liquidity centers, minimize transaction costs and maintain anonymity for our clients. It includes pre- and post-trade analytics, global direct market access and smart order routing, global algorithmic trading products and differentiated liquidity.
The ECS offering is bolstered by its connectivity to the unmatched liquidity of JPMorgan Chase as well as J.P. Morgan’s tradition of superior client service and steadfast commitment to be best in class. For our clients, ECS strives to be the advisor of choice and a valued, best-in-class global electronic trading solutions provider. ECS is committed to delivering exceptional client outcomes through a combination of subject matter expertise, value-added products and access to differentiated liquidity, all built upon a foundation of operational excellence.
ECS is a part of the full-service global equities platform within J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank, a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $19.7 trillion of assets under custody, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. Across our business, our goal is to help clients succeed, contribute to orderly and well functioning markets and support global economic growth. |
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| With over 170 clients worldwide, including UBS, Barclays, Berenberg Bank, GBM, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan, FIX Flyer develops advanced technology for managing complex, multi-asset, institutional securities trading using highly scalable software and network technologies. FIX Flyer provides Managed FIX services, the Daytona trade surveillance monitor, the Ignition regression testing, certification and trade validation tool; Flyer Online OMS; and tools for commission and risk management. The Flyer Engine is the first FIX server designed to manage high volume, ultra low latency trading networks and ECNs, easily scaling to thousands of connections. FIX Flyer hosts and partners with Equinix, the leading global provider of network-neutral data center and interconnection services and Netezza, the world's leading data warehouse appliance company. FIX Flyer is an IBM Business Partner with real world experience in IBM WebSphere LLM, MQSeries, and HS22 blade server hardware. FIX Flyer has headquarters in New York City with offices in Boston and Hyderabad India. Visit fixflyer.com for company information and to request a free demonstration. Follow us on twitter.com/fixflyer. |
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UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, and retail clients in Switzerland. Its business strategy is centered on its pre-eminent global wealth management businesses and leading universal bank in Switzerland. Together with a client-focused Investment Bank and well-diversified Global Asset Management business, UBS will expand its premier wealth management franchise and drive growth across the Group.
The Investment Bank provides corporate, institutional and wealth management clients with expert advice, innovative financial solutions, outstanding execution and comprehensive access to the world’s capital markets. It offers investment banking and capital markets, research, equities, foreign exchange, precious metals and tailored fixed income services in rates and credit through its business units - Corporate Client Solutions and Investor Client Services. The Investment Bank actively participants in capital markets flow, including sales, trading and market-making across a range of securities.
UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in more than 50 countries, with about 35% of its employees working in the Americas, 36% in Switzerland, 17% in the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 12% in Asia Pacific. UBS employs about 61,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). |
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| Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions enabling unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. The Endace division of Emulex provides network visibility products that deliver complete network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Visit www.emulex.com |
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Software AG helps organisations achieve their business objectives faster. The company’s big data, integration and business process technologies enable customers to drive operational efficiency, modernise their systems and optimise processes for smarter decisions and better service.
Software AG’s Apama is an award-winning Complex Event Processing engine which offers a powerful platform for algorithmic trading, FX eCommerce, risk and compliance monitoring and other high performance, low latency capital markets applications.
Apama for FX e-commerce
- Customizable end-to-end FX e-commerce solution with liquidity management, risk management and pricing distribution and execution
- Rich functionality includes custom pricing models, intelligent auto-hedging, and tools for client and proprietary trade-flow management in highly fragmented fast-paced markets
Apama for Algorithmic Trading
- Market-leading platform for flexible and powerful algorithmic trading solutions for buy-side and sell-side
- Rich catalogue of components includes SOR framework, pre-trade risk firewall and third-party quant plugins for fast development
Apama for Risk & Compliance Monitoring
- Powerful and extensible monitoring solution for market surveillance, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), pre-trade risk and other forms of behavioural monitoring
- Efficiently analyse high-volume, high-velocity data in real-time or historical mode for improved and faster decisions
Learn more at www.softwareag.com |
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| PFSOFT is a broker neutral technology provider that offers its highly customizable Protrader solution to banks and brokerages. Protrader is a multi-asset turnkey solution that features price aggregation, powerful modules for algorithmic trading and asset management, as well as 50+ existing FIX integrations to brokerages, exchanges, banks, and ECNs. PFSOFT is privately owned with offices in Ukraine, China, and Turkey. More information can be found at http://pfsoft.com/. |
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Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, enterprise, cloud, networking, digital media and financial services companies leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 32 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. By connecting directly to their strategic partners and end users, customers are forming dynamic ecosystems inside Equinix. These interconnected ecosystems enable companies to optimize the performance of their content and applications and protect their vital digital assets.
www.equinix.com |
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| IPC is a leading global provider of specialized communications solutions for the financial trading community. With a 100-percent focus on this sector and over 40 years of expertise, IPC provides customers with integrated solutions that support traders and participants across the entire trade lifecycle including sell-side and buy-side financial institutions, inter-dealer brokers, liquidity venues, clearing and settlement firms, independent software vendors, corporate finance departments, financial information exchange providers and market data providers. IPC’s offerings include a unified communications/application platform, award-winning hard and soft turrets, managed voice and data network connectivity solutions and dedicated service and support. IPC’s global reach extends to more than 60 countries - including a network of 5,000 customer sites over 630 cities and an installed base of approximately 118,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has approximately 900 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.ipc.com. |
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About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is a leading client-centric global universal bank. Its businesses encompass a wide range of products and services in investment, corporate and retail banking as well as in asset and wealth management. The Group operates in all regions of the world.
About Autobahn
Autobahn Equity is Deutsche Bank’s algorithmic trading platform, providing you with access to execution solutions in markets worldwide. The platform combines award-winning algorithms with our direct market access (DMA) offering for smarter liquidity.
About Stealth & SuperX Plus
Stealth is Deutsche Bank's next generation liquidity seeking algorithm. The strategy utilises advanced high frequency alpha models to source dark and bright liquidity, identifying short term market signals for smarter executions. By continually adapting to intraday market conditions, Stealth rapidly captures trading opportunities when quality liquidity is discovered.
SuperX Plus intelligently seeks dark liquidity while offering a sophisticated level of order protection for smarter execution. It is dark trading made intelligent, bringing you global access to the best pools of liquidity. The algorithm provides access to deep, diverse liquidity without advertising your size or intent to the market, minimizing the risk of information leakage.
www.db.com
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| S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions provides innovative exchange and value-added market data services, as well as advanced trading and infrastructure solutions. These solutions are at the forefront of today’s rapidly evolving technology, which underpins the global financial services industry. Innovative data delivery options ConsolidatedFEED and SnapFEED are designed to support both buy and sell-side institutions, in addition to vendors, with consolidated normalized global content from over 120 exchanges. QuantFEED, QuantFACTORY and QuantLINK are a suite of cutting edge, end-to-end algorithmic-trading solutions designed to empower hedge funds, proprietary trading groups and MTFs/ECNs. For more information visit: www.spcapitaliq.com. |
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BT Firmly focused on the financial services sector
Over 30 years' experience providing network-centric, mission-critical services for data and voice communications and hosting in the financial community including banks, brokers, exchanges, investment managers, payment processors, hedge funds, financial application providers, CCPs and CSDs. We have an existing user community of thousands of financial institutions around the world that already use our award winning BT Radianz Services for the financial sector. Our solutions cover the entire trade lifecycle and range of trading strategies.
www.bt.com/financialservices |
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Vocus Communications provides core connectivity and co-location solutions to the enterprise, government and wholesale markets in Australia and New Zealand.
Founded in 2008 as a wholesale IP transit supplier, we have grown rapidly to become an ASX300 company (ASX:VOC). We have become a truly integrated telecoms company, now working with multiple partners within the FIX community.
Vocus boasts the shortest fibre optic path from the Sydney’s CBD to the new ASX data centre in Gore Hill. The dense fibre optic network in Australia’s major capital cities also supports the Vocus core connectivity offering. We pride ourselves on a truly redundant, high bandwidth capability interstate and international Ethernet network. We own and operate 11 data centres through Australia and New Zealand.
The main solution base for the Vocus focuses around three major business requirements:
- Isolating your core network from your WAN provider
- Relocating your IT infrastructure away from your people
- Connecting to the Cloud
The Vocus head office is based in North Sydney, with offices located in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Newcastle and Auckland.
For more information please do not hesitate to contact us
1300 88 99 88 or email sales@vocus.com.au
Communicating Faster
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