Financial Services Firms

Electronic and Algorithmic Trading Financial and Trading Institutions operate in a dynamic environment where reliability and resilience are critical to the firms bottom line. In an environment such as this, network fluctuations can not be tolerated.

CFN Services provides you peace of mind because CFN is carrier agnostic so we are able to custom design the network that best meets your needs. FiberSource® software platform, is able to access over 500 Carriers networks globally.

CFN Services Provides Financial Service Firms:

Network Optimization: CFN provides professional service offerings around network design, planning and implementation. CFN works with financial entities to help improve the efficiency, and economics of their global network, while ensuring a clear path for future growth. CFN transport solutions reside at layer 1 which provide the end user increased security, control of their network,reliability. Layer 1 transport also avoids the issues of micro-bursts that effect many Enterprise networks.

FiberSource® Financial Advisor: Providing services specifically for firms where network reliability, resilience, security and latency are critical to their business success. Providing global proximity hosting and network optimization consulting, CFN helps firms ensure their connectivity plans support their infrastructure and trading strategies.

Custom Fiber Network Solutions:. Being a custom fiber network provider, CFN offers a level of service that is unique to any connectivity options available to financial firms today. CFN is able to work directly with a trading firm to provide connectivity solutions that are customized around the firms overall global connectivity and/or latency strategies.

Private Virtualization Infrastructure: Enterprise companies are finding that virtualization is providing them IT efficiencies and predictability, quicker time to market, and cost savings. CFN virtualization services provide customers the value of utilizing CFN’s already optimized global infrastructure to provide a ready environment for private virtualization applications, which allows a firm to focus on the application layer knowing the transport layer is completely optimized.

Working with our Partners we can offer a full solution to your Electronic Trade Execution and Market Data Solutions.

Trading Beyond the Horizon

In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage opportunities across the order book and by implementing high frequency and complex, multi-leg, cross asset class strategies.

The successful operations – whether they be the proprietary desks of traditional broker/dealers, specialist high frequency and algorithmic traders, or quantitative hedge funds – will leverage a trading infrastructure that combines high performance analytical, algorithmic and order routing platforms with the lowest latency access to multiple, geographically dispersed execution venues.
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Private Virtualization

Financial Service firms are looking to achieve better efficiencies and lower operating expenses. In business every employee is utilizing multiple applications at all times throughout the day. In order to find economies of scale, many companies are moving that applications to the cloud and allowing their users to utilize those applications on demand as needed. This is providing significant savings in the IT departments of financial firms.