Chinese futures exchanges put brakes on data-centre co-location

16th January, 2026

Aravind Bulusu
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Chinese futures exchanges are preventing high-frequency traders (HFT) from co-locating with data centres of trading venues, asking them to remove servers dedicated to those firms, according to a Bloomberg report

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