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Get in TouchProximity Hosting Solutions Tap into best-of-breed proximity and colocation hosting solutions
Whether you want to offer proximity hosting to clients or need proximity to specific venues, Platform Equinix offers secure and reliable facilities where you can deploy next to matching engines and access nodes for more than 60 leading exchanges and trading platforms.
Our best-of-breed proximity and colocation hosting solutions give you a competitive edge:
- Create additional revenue streams by offering premium services to key clients
- Offer low-latency, secure, and reliable colocation hosting solutions next to, or very close to, market data sources, trading platforms, and execution venues
- Allow clients to maintain control and privacy of their data and cages with flexible management options
- Quickly connect to new clients and be installed and ready within 24-48 hours
- Provide clients with a choice of more than 690 networks and 475 IT service providers
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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).