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Algo Technologies joins Telx centre, linking cash and derivatives algos
21 December 2010
UK trading technology firm Algo Group has joined the Financial Business Exchange of Telx, the US interconnection and colocation provider, and located its electronic trading solutions in Telx’s data centre facility at 350 East Cermak Road, Chicago.
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The agreement means AlgoSpan, its
fibre optic network, can add access to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and
Intercontinental Exchange to its low latency trading and connectivity and
proximity hosting community.
Telx’s FBX customers can use
AlgoSpan’s ‘shortest path’ access to other major liquidity venues across Europe
and the US, while Algo Technologies can offer its low latency market data feeds
to trading firms in Chicago.
Hirander Misra, chief executive of
Algo Group, told FOW: “Telx’s FBX can offer trading firms a competitive
advantage through low latency network connectivity and what we believe is the
best low latency data service on the market today.”
A source close to the situation
said: “The main significance is that it marks a coming together, via Algo Span,
of a cash equities and derivatives colocation service. At present the HFT and
algo trading communities tend to be siloed into equities or derivatives. This
development marks the beginning of a service provision which joins these two
markets together over the AlgoSpan fibre optic network, with a fully
distributed data model.”