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Get in TouchGlobal Market Access The world exchanges inside Equinix
Platform Equinix gives you direct access to the world’s top 16 financial markets. Through 99 world-class data centres across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, you can connect to local exchanges via regional facilities or interconnect your global data centres—all under one roof.
Realize the benefits of Platform Equinix.
Platform Equinix enables you to rapidly deploy a scalable, global footprint while enjoying industry-leading standards for security and reliability.
- Choose from more than 690 network providers
- Tap into the world's most robust financial ecosystem composed of more than 75 exchanges and trading platforms, over 400 buy- and sell-side firms, and more than 150 technology providers
- Rely on secure, low-latency connectivity to financial centres around the world
- Control bandwidth costs with fixed-rate cross connects—even as your bandwidth scales
- Maximize throughput at peak times
- Track numerous global exchanges across multiple asset classes
- More easily comply with best execution obligations
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Financial Services Ecosystem
Equinix is home to a high-performance, global trading ecosystem connecting you to the most partners while reducing the number and cost of high-speed interconnections.
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Global Market Access
Equinix operates in 38 markets across 13 countries and 5 continents, including strategic locations in all of the top 15 financial markets in the world.
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Proximity Hosting Solutions
Whether you're looking to offer proximity hosting to your clients, or looking for proximity to specific venues, you can rely on Equinix for our secure and reliable data centre facilities.
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Advanced Financial Services
A consultancy offering for the trading systems of the Deutsche Börse Group
In Their Words“We are constantly increasing volume, expanding across the country, and bringing in new customers. As we do this, we can take advantage of the Equinix global platform, which extends across every important metropolitan area around the world. ”
— Jim Bird, CTO, BIDS Trading
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BIDS Trading (PDF)
Learn how presence inside Equinix helps BIDS Trading grow its business and support record trading volumes while reducing operational costs.
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Boston Options Exchange (PDF)
When you operate an all-electronic equity options market, security, transaction speed, and the ability to easily connect to other exchanges are paramount to success. These issues were top of mind as Boston Options Exchange (BOX) was evaluating choices for a new data centre.
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ABN AMRO Clearing Customer Success Story (PDF)
Equinix delivers a consistent global experience and greater flexibility.
In Their Words“We are constantly increasing volume, expanding across the country, and bringing in new customers. As we do this, we can take advantage of the Equinix global platform, which extends across every important metropolitan area aroundthe world. Our partnership with Equinix reinforces our brand, and shows prospective customers that we are committed to excellence.”
— Jim Bird, CTO, BIDS Trading
Brochures & Datasheets
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Financial Ecosystem Brochure (PDF)
Learn how you can maximize connections while minimizing risk in a dynamic market.
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BCTR Americas Brochure (PDF)
Your trading operations are mission-critical. Be sure you can count on your backup environment.
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BCTR – Hong Kong Brochure (PDF)
Leading banks choose Equinix’s state-of-the-art BCTR solution to keep their trading rooms running when calamity strikes.
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BCTR - Europe Brochure (PDF)
Technology and processes need to be in place to capture and recover every piece of business information in the event of an unexpected IT outage.
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See what Platform Equinix can do for you (video)
Find out why Gartner is placing so much emphasis on the "platform effect" and how you can leverage it to speed growth.
Whitepapers
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Key Trends in Financial Data Infrastructure
What are the significant financial data trends? What trading infrastructure innovations are on the horizon? How can you optimize your infrastructure? Read the whitepaper to find out.
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Connecting the Dots: Better Collaboration Among Industry Players will Address Customer Needs
Continuing technology and connectivity investments in capital market infrastructure have set off a chain of events that will significantly alter the global trading landscape.
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Rewriting the Rules for Financial Trading Infrastructure
The technology arms race continues, as does the roller coaster ride of global financial markets. Yet the real revolution lies in distributed trading, a new globalized way to do business, being pioneered by the high frequency trading (HFT) community, but increasingly applied by all market participants. We call it next generation machine-to-machine e-commerce (M2M 2.0).