CO-LOCATION HOSTING SERVICES – ELECTRONIC TRADING

Over the past decade, futures trading technology has undergone a major transformation. Ten years ago, co-location was not in anyone’s vocabulary. Now it is almost a given in the high-speed trading community, and the search is on for new ways to maintain the so-called “infrastructure edge.”

A deluge of telecommunication companies and network vendors are pouring resources into the financial space, making it possible to build extremely fast networks of co-located servers. Telecommunication carriers are now building and marketing new fiber paths between major financial centers that are specifically tailored to financial customers. This new landscape has created a renewed interest in cross-asset trading that links market centers in Chicago, New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo.

The CME, Eurex, ICE and NYSE Liffe now offer high-speed access via co-location services. The expansion of co-location services has opened up a number of interesting arbitrage opportunities among these futures markets and also between these futures markets and related markets in other asset classes such as equities, equity options and foreign exchange.

PROXIMITY CO-LOCATION MANAGED SERVICE PROVIDER  
Clients who leverage Interactive Data 7ticks' proximity services receive co-location cabinets, power, cooling, and direct cross-connect exchange access for the ultimate in ultra-low latency trading. Interactive Data 7ticks builds, manages, and monitors the network infrastructure and financial exchange connections, providing our clients the ability to concentrate on what matters most — trading!