What is a true Evergreen Network and Why Should you Care?

"What is the best today is not always best for tomorrow."

This never rang so true as in the markets of finance, communication and trading. Firms are stagnated trying to get the best solutions to enhance their corporate goals. Exhaustive searches followed by a final decision by a firm, lead to frustration that a new solution is already on the horizon. This leads some firms back to the drawing board thus leaving in place archaic solutions, or other firms settle for good enough and plan to re-evaluate in coming years.

How do you stay ahead of the technology curve?

The answer is clear, find partners that are keeping up with technology as it happens. Choose a firm, like CFN Services, where our core mission is to build infrastructure that support next generation technology. This mission drives us to be evaluating our core infrastructure on a daily basis. With a keen focus on intelligence gathering to ensure that there are no surprises to our clients and that we are always able to offer the best of breed available infrastructure solutions. Always improving latency, efficiencies and resilience, CFN works proactively with customers to communicate the advantages they are receiving being part of an evergreen network. More then 45% of the CFN client base has seen over a 15% reduction of latency on their in-contract existing connections. This was done proactively and the results sent along to the clients to allow them to test the effect of the latency on their trade execution. Thanks to the CFN Evergreen Network, firms have had the ability to stay ahead of the latency curve, without any work on the client side.

What are the Technology Implications of Dodd-Frank and how do you Respond?

CFN Services has designed specific solutions in response to the changes coming with the Dodd-Frank regulations: New regulations require firms to be able to be agile and quickly responsive to the changes in the industry.

Module approaches are required to be able to easily replace components of your trading strategy without going through a full revamp of your whole system.

The markets don't sleep and you can't afford to take down a single process in your trading infrastructure without risking huge effects to your bottom line.

Dodd-Frank Act will have a huge effect on reporting, risk management and certifications, which will require trading firms to have the ability to utilize testing environments that are already equipped and connected to run back testing and real-time analysis. CFN Services, works with trading firms to ensure they have all the processes in place to meet the new regulations and demands that are coming forward, as your partner we are will creative ways for you to meet the current regulations and off-set your time spent on the setting up the environment so you do not take away from the business at hand.