Networks
BT Promotes Payne to Lead Radianz Services
30-year BT veteran Payne will now hold the position of managing director of BT Radianz Services, concurrent with his role as chief operating officer for BT’s Global Banking & Financial Markets division.
HFN Expands Global Network Access After Epsilon’s Metcom Buy
The deal expands HFN's existing Metcom deal, leveraging Epsilon's global cloud capabilities to allow local network access in Europe and Asia.
Neptune Adds Rabobank and TD Securities as Latest Dealers
Trading network adds banks to bring total dealer members to 24.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Crossing Network—Instinet
Instinet powers to the front of the Rankings with its VWAP Cross offering
Tradeweb Invests in DealVector to Grow Fixed-Income Suite of Solutions
DealVector has over 600,000 deals loaded on its platform across more than 1,000 firms and plans to grow that base with this investment.
UPDATE: Cloud Network Operator GTT Buys Perseus for $37.5 Million
The deal, completed last week, sees GTT aquire Perseus and its ultra-low-latency international data and trading infrastructure.
Net Vet Cubbon Saddles Up at Colt
Cubbon brings a career of networking technology experience, including at other financial extranet providers.
BSO Offers Global Data Access to CME Co-Lo Clients
The arrangement will allow CME clients to connecto to other markets worldwide from CME's co-location center via BSO's network.
Colt Embarks on Asia Network Upgrades in Global Expansion Push
Colt is on an aggressive expansion plan to provide its Colt IQ Network service to more enterprise customers in Asia, but in some countries, this requires some groundwork first. Wei-Shen Wong outlines the vendor’s plans in the region.
Colt Preps High-Bandwidth HK Net
This expansion is in line with the network provider’s overall investment project in Asia.
BT Connects Five Datacenters in the Global FX Market
UK telecommunications provider has linked financial hubs in the UK, the US, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong.
BT Launches Radianz FX Express Network
BT's new network connects five FX hubs with a focus on reliability to meet demand from a growing number of buy-side firms entering the FX market.
Contineo Launches Data Analytics for Structured Products Community
Contineo's I/O provides financial service providers and market participants with proprietary analysis and data on the structured products market.
Colt Grows IQ Network Service in Singapore, Hong Kong
The expansion is part of Colt's plan to invest significantly in Asia over the next three years.
Colt Adds Data, Trading Venues to PrizmNet
The network provider is expanding its connectivity to equities and FX markets in the US and Canada
IPC Suffers eSpeed Connectivity Outage
Nasdaq says IPC's service at eSpeed's primary datacenter was impacted by a power issue.
Avelacom Brings Low-Latency Managed Connectivity Infrastructure to Emerging Markets
The vendor is creating a network of Points of Presence in emerging markets.
Bombay Stock Exchange Joins IPC Financial Markets Network
The connectivity is in response to client demand fo raccess to non-traditional venues.
DelphX Negotiation Tool Allows Dealers to Quote Corporate Bonds Held by Investors
The tool allows dealers to negotiate future transactions that allow them to take advantage of bond inventories held by investors.
IPC Adds BOX Exchange Data to Financial Markets Network
Making its data available to IPC's network clients will expose BOX to a broader range of buy-side firms, officials say.
Lucera, Perseus Launch Global On-Demand SDN Financial Network
New York-based network, trading infrastructure and time-synchronization technology provider Perseus and high-performance infrastructure provider Lucera Financial Infrastructures have partnered to launch a new global Software Defined Network (SDN)…
Solarflare, Velocimetrics Partner for Deeper Network Data Analysis
The agreement enables users to leverage Solarflare's' extensive packet-capture capabilities with Velocimetrics' in-depth analytics.
Perseus Sets Up Irish Ops Center
Fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom has set up a network operations center in Galway, Ireland to provide 24/7 operations support for the vendors clients 365 days per year to support the vendor’s managed network services.
Exablaze Preps New NIC, 40GigE Support
Australian low-latency networking technology vendor Exablaze, a spin-off from highi-frequency trading firm Zomojo, is developing a stripped-down version of its ExaNIC network interface card, and is building support into its products for 40 Gigabit…