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Alpha Alliance™ Enables Trading Services Firms to Collaborate and Deliver Industry-Leading Solutions for the Global Financial Markets

Herndon, VA (PRWeb).  July 27, 2011 — CFN Services, Inc., the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced the Alpha Alliance™, an innovative network of trading services firms delivering fully integrated and customizable solutions for the global electronic trading market.  The Alpha Alliance brings together best-of-breed trading technologies, applications, and services across the full trading life cycle, from analysis and decision-making, to risk management, execution, and settlement of the trade.

Alliance partners deploy their solutions on CFN ’s Alpha Platform™, a low latency trading infrastructure offering the highest performance for market data delivery and trade execution worldwide.  Technology partners rapidly deploy their applications and services on a proximity hosted platform as part of a comprehensive solution, improving application delivery performance while lowering costs and expanding access to new markets.

Alpha Alliance partners collaborate to develop full service enhanced, customized solutions that best advance the unique trading strategies of their clients. With access to the technical capabilities and market-specific expertise within the Alpha Alliance network, clients and business partners interact in completely new ways.  Trading firms ultimately benefit from having access to the market-leading solutions necessary to remain competitive in today’s rapidly evolving financial markets.

“CFN is very excited to play a pivotal role in taking automated trading solutions to the next level,” said Mark Casey, President of CFN Services. “Bringing the best technology, product and service firms together on one platform enables next-generation trading solutions capable of fully leveraging the rapid growth in global electronic trading. Alpha Alliance members are setting the standard for high performance trading.”

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About CFN Services in the Global Financial Markets
CFN Services is a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, providing solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. CFN Services operates the low-latency  Alpha Platform™, a high performance low latency global infrastructure that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets. CFN is the sponsor of the Alpha Alliance which is setting the standard for next generation infrastructure and providing leading edge trading solutions. For more information visit CFN Services website

About CFN Services

CFN Services provides high performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource^®, a global network optimization platform, CFN Services builds low-latency private cloud solutions to solve the performance challenges of latency and jitter in distributed IT environments. Whether the application and data are dispersed across town or around the globe, CFN Services deploys turnkey solutions within and between public and private data centers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: http://www.cfnservices.com

Press Contacts:

Judy Misbin-May, CFN Services

+1-703-788-6633

judy.misbin-may@cfnservices.com

Solution enables customized delivery of direct-exchange-access market data

New York (PRWeb). — June 14, 2011 — CFN Services, a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, and SIX Telekurs USA, the American subsidiary of the Swiss-based leading financial information vendor, announced today that they are deploying ultra-low-latency, direct-exchange-access market data on the Alpha Platform.

SIX Telekurs USA adds direct-exchange-access market data to its existing portfolio of market and reference data solutions, including the real-time MDFstream consolidated feed, calculated and evaluated pricing, and historical reference and tick data. Delivery options include access to raw market data in native format, as well as high-performance normalized direct exchange feeds. Leveraging the reach of the Alpha Platform™ to liquidity venues worldwide and embedded low latency ticker-plant solutions, the feeds will be available locally or at remote venues in native formats, or in the MDFstream format normalized for a single exchange feed or multiple feeds within an asset class.

The infrastructure that forms the foundation of the Alpha Platform™ provides ultra-low-latency market data delivery and trade execution for some of the world’s most sophisticated high-frequency trading firms. Trading application and market data vendors can now leverage this same infrastructure to jumpstart low-latency global delivery of their solutions, while trading firms can rapidly deploy these solutions in a high performance environment to capture more Alpha and increased trading profits. Read More

High Performance Private Cloud Platform Accelerates Market Data Delivery and Trade Execution Across Major Asset Classes and Liquidity Venues Worldwide

Herndon, VA (PRWeb). — June 14, 2011 — CFN Services, a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced the Alpha Platform™, a global high performance private cloud for automated trading. This low-latency market data and application delivery platform improves automated trading performance across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets. It is a flexible and customizable platform that seamlessly integrates delivery of low latency market and event data with best-of-breed trading applications, all proximity hosted within the liquidity venues to accelerate trading performance.

The infrastructure that forms the foundation of the Alpha Platform™ provides ultra-low-latency market data delivery and trade execution for some of the world’s most sophisticated high-frequency trading firms. Trading application vendors can now leverage this same infrastructure to jumpstart low-latency global delivery of their solutions, while trading firms can rapidly deploy these applications in a high performance environment to capture more Alpha and increased trading profits. Read More

Companies’ first deployment is designed to enable Canadian website tracking aggregated market-data messages across North American exchanges

Herndon, VA (PRWeb). — June 16, 2011 — CFN Services, the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced that Exegy, the market leader in high-performance ticker plants, has selected the Alpha Platform™ to deploy the ultra-low-latency, hardware-accelerated Exegy Ticker Plant.

With unmatched throughput and ultra-low latency, the Exegy Ticker Plant processes and enriches data for the world’s leading collocated trading operations. A single Exegy Ticker Plant provides all the updates for www.MarketDataPeaks.com, the first public website that provides a minute-by-minute account of the aggregated volume of market-data messages across major North American exchanges.

“The Alpha Platform™ provides an ideal infrastructure for the Exegy Ticker Plant offering,” said Jeff Wells, Vice President of Product Marketing, Exegy. “Our first deployment with CFN Services will be at the Toronto data center where we plan to create a MarketDataPeaks website for Canada.”

The infrastructure that forms the foundation of the Alpha Platform™ provides ultra-low-latency market data delivery and trade execution for some of the world’s most sophisticated high-frequency trading firms. Trading application vendors can now leverage this same infrastructure to jumpstart low-latency global delivery of their solutions, while trading firms can rapidly deploy these applications in a high performance environment to capture more Alpha and increased trading profits.

“CFN Services has launched a premier platform for seamless integration of low-latency market and event data with high-performance trading applications,” said Sebastian Yoon, CFN Services’ Vice President of Financial Services. “We’re excited about bringing Exegy’s ticker plant technology to the Alpha Platform™, further expanding the market leading solutions it integrates across key liquidity venues worldwide.”

About Exegy Exegy provides ultra-high performance hardware-accelerated market data appliances (www.exegy.com/tickerplant) that efficiently process and enrich market data for the world’s leading financial organizations. Exegy’s unique market data products respond to financial organizations’ growing demands for low latency, reduced cost of ownership, and flexibility. Exegy’s products are compatible with leading operating systems and interconnects. For more information, please visit www.exegy.com.

About CFN Services in the Global Financial Markets CFN Services is a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, providing solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. CFN Services operates the low-latency Alpha Platform™, a high performance global cloud that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets.

About CFN Services CFN Services provides high performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource^®, a global network optimization platform, CFN Services builds low-latency private cloud solutions to solve the performance challenges of latency and jitter in distributed IT environments. Whether the application and data are dispersed across town or around the globe, CFN Services deploys turnkey solutions within and between public and private data centers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Press Contacts:

CFN Services

Judy Misbin-May

+1-703-788-6633

judy.misbin-may@cfnservices.com

Exegy

Jeff Wells

+1-314-218-3626

jwells@exegy.com