Global Financial Markets

CFN in the Global Financial Markets

Across financial markets worldwide, automated securities trading has increased in complexity and competitiveness.  As the trading landscape continues to evolve, market participants are challenged to keep pace with the technologies and solutions that are transforming the marketplace.  To maintain an advantage, financial market participants require high performance connectivity, infrastructure and trading solutions optimized to improve performance and drive the profitability of their unique trading strategies.

CFN understands the global financial markets and the leading-edge technologies and trading solutions that can deliver a source of competitive advantage.  We enable our clients' trading strategies through delivery of performance-optimized connectivity solutions, market data delivery networks, proximity hosting, infrastructure services and managed trading solutions. 

Learn how CFN can optimize your business performance:     

• Buy-Side Trading Solutions
• Sell-Side Trading Solutions
• Trading Solutions for Liquidity Venues and Exchanges

Buy-Side Trading Solutions

Technology advances, regulatory reform and trading strategy innovations have driven exponential growth in automated trading and produced a more complex and fragmented market, regionally and globally.

Buy-side innovators are extending their trading strategies to new asset classes, execution venues and geographies, while the most competitive players in established markets are leveraging technology to improve trading performance and reduce trading infrastructure costs.

Execution success mandates high performance network, technology and infrastructure solutions optimized to support your unique trading strategies.

Leverage CFN's low-latency networks, global financial markets infrastructure and managed services to deliver a competitive edge. Our Buy-Side Trading Solutions include:

• Ultra-low-latency connectivity across all asset classes, geographies and execution venues
• Colocation and proximity hosting solutions architected to ensure optimal market access
• Accelerated market data delivery from key liquidity venues worldwide
• Managed trading infrastructure solutions to enable real-time analysis and trade execution
• Alpha Platform, CFN's low-latency market data delivery and trade execution platform

Don't miss lucrative trading opportunities.  Focus on your core trading expertise and set the foundation for improved performance with CFN's Infrastructure Services and Managed Trading Solutions.

Sell-Side Trading Solutions

As trading markets continue to evolve, sell-side firms are under pressure to innovate and offer differentiated services while improving the performance of their core business.

Competition for position and order flow across a complex array of venues requires high performance networks to initiate and execute trading strategies faster than others.  This same high-speed infrastructure must also cost effectively support low-latency, pre-trade risk and compliance checks to mitigate risk.

Sell-side innovators are attracting buy-side customers by offering enhanced algorithmic services, sponsored and direct market access and accelerated market data delivery; and the most forward-looking players are broadening market access and extending their infrastructure to proximity sites – providing a high performance trading environment for their clients.    

Core to all of these strategies is having the requisite high performance network and infrastructure.

CFN's low-latency connectivity, proximity hosting and managed trading solutions can help drive improved performance and support delivery of enhanced solutions.  Our Sell-Side Trading Solutions include:

• High performance global networks to attract order flow and support liquidity-seeking algorithms
• Managed trading infrastructure solutions to enable real-time analysis and trade execution
• Colocation and proximity hosting solutions architected to ensure optimal market access  
• Real-time access to consolidated market data from key liquidity venues worldwide
• Trading infrastructure to easily connect with trading partners and integrate third-party applications
• Alpha Platform™, CFN's high performance market data and trading application platform  

Focus on your core business and capture new market opportunities.  Leverage CFN's Infrastructure Services and Managed Trading Solutions to cost-effectively optimize your trading infrastructure and offer your buy-side customers enhanced solutions.

Trading Solutions for Exchanges and Liquidity Venues

Regulatory, market and technology changes have dramatically changed the financial markets structure both regionally and globally fueling the rise of new liquidity venues and increasing competition for traditional exchanges. 

While growth in trading markets has driven down latencies and resulted in systems upgrades, the speed at which exchanges and execution venues are able to execute transactions remains fundamental to the share of order flow they attract. 

The evolving landscape and increased competition for liquidity share has prompted innovators to explore new opportunities.  Venues are offering value-added services and improved performance through colocation services, sponsored access and hosted trading services for the buy-side and sell-side.

Core to all of these strategies is access to low-latency connectivity and high performance infrastructure solutions.

Leverage CFN's global financial markets infrastructure and managed trading solutions to improve performance and deliver value-added services.  Our Exchange and Liquidity Venue Solutions include:

• Global, ultra-low and low-latency connectivity to enhance order routing networks
• High performance network solutions to broaden connectivity with market participants
• Trading infrastructure solutions to enable optimal market access
• Managed trading services for the buy-side and sell-side via CFN's  Alpha Platform™

Drive profitability and ensure best execution by optimizing your trading infrastructure and providing low-latency access to it.  Expand your revenue model and minimize time-to-market leveraging CFN's Infrastructure Services and Managed Trading Solutions.