Market Data Accelerated via the Alpha Platform™

As new liquidity venues emerge and financial markets grow in complexity and competitiveness, access to increasing volumes of ultra-low and low-latency market data across multiple venues can be a costly and complex undertaking even for the most sophisticated trading firms.  At the same time, trading strategies continue to become more complex and multi-directional in nature requiring firms to seek competitive advantage through reduced time to trade.

To execute against these opportunities, market data networks and applications must deliver information at ever-increasing rates with minimal latency.  Market data arriving even a few microseconds late can have a significant impact.

This demand for cost-effective, low-latency market data delivery has driven the most competitive market participants to adopt innovative technology solutions delivered via cloud-based platforms.

The CFN Difference

CFN Services' Alpha Platform is a global, high performance cloud for automated trading.  The infrastructure at the foundation of the Alpha Platform already provides accelerated ultra-low-latency market data delivery for some of the most sophisticated and successful high-frequency trading firms. This same infrastructure is now available to all participants in the trading space: buy-side, sell-side and trading application providers.

Our turnkey platform provides the fastest available delivery of market data and order execution across key venues, eliminating the need for trading firms to purchase standalone low-latency circuits.  The cost-effective, low-latency delivery of market data over our high performance infrastructure provides direct market data and order routing with the ability to customize solutions across an extensive network of liquidity venues.

The Alpha Platform supports customized delivery of low and ultra-low-latency direct and consolidated market data feeds via:

• Direct exchange access to portfolio of market and reference data solutions
• Local or remote delivery to client sites or other facilities, including more than 70 Alpha Platform proximity locations worldwide at guaranteed best latencies

Custom market data solutions include:

• Real-time, MDFstream consolidated feeds with calculated and evaluated pricing
• Full, depth-of-book, raw market data feeds in native format
• Normalized direct exchange feeds for a single exchange feed or multiple feeds within an asset class
• Historical reference and tick data

Alpha Platform Direct Connect™

Alpha Platform Direct Connect, CFN’s managed high-performance market access and market data platform, enables algorithmic traders, proprietary traders, hedge funds and technology providers to reduce the cost and complexity of market access infrastructure while maintaining or improving performance.

Leveraging the Alpha Platform, Alpha Platform Direct Connect provides lowest-latency direct market access and raw, full depth-of-book market data feeds from leading exchanges globally.  This integrated solution provides clients:

• Significantly reduced market access and market data costs via shared economics;
• Improved trading performance through accelerated market data delivery and trade execution by leveraging the Alpha Platform;
• Decreased data infrastructure and operating complexity via supplier consolidation;
• Affordable scalability, while flexibly accommodating changing trading strategies; and
• Maintained performance standards through continuous monitoring and technology refreshes.

Capture more Alpha and increase trading profits.  Power your quantitative strategies with accelerated market data delivery via the Alpha Platform.