CFN Services Launches Alpha Alliance™
Setting the Standard for Next-Generation Trading Infrastructure
Alpha Alliance™ Enables Trading Services Firms to Collaborate and Deliver Industry-Leading Solutions for the Global Financial Markets
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1. The time is here. Lowest latency optimized infrastructure
and hosting along with best-of-breed trading applications
available on a single platform.
Welcome Alpha Platform™.
Financial services and trading firms operate in a dynamic environment where speed, reliability, and resilience are critical to
the bottom line. In this environment, latency cannot be tolerated.
CFN Services' Alpha Platform™ is a global high performance managed infrastructure for automated trading. The
infrastructure at the foundation of Alpha 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.
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† Lowers the cost barrier to geographic and asset class diversity while improving performance and reducing time to market
† Latency options allowing firms to customize solutions to trading markets and algorithmic approaches that or
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2. CFN Value-Added Commitments:
† CFN Technology Refresh Program ensures that Alpha Platform™ is always leading with the best_of-class
networking equipment coupled with lowest latency connectivity
† Alpha Select our premier partner program, enables low-latency global delivery of trading applications to the
automated securities market, while providing financial services and trading firms access to industry
leading solutions in a high performance environment
CFN Value-Added Commitments:
Lowest Latency Guarantee
Coupled with the CFN Technology Refresh Program ensuring you always have the market available lowest latency.
Portability Guarantee
CFN offers complete comparable portability and flexibility so your infrastructure can respond to any changes in
market conditions and trading strategies.
Price Gurantee
Due to volatility of the low-latency global exchange market CFN offers price compression and inflation protection
based on contract terms.
Global Reach to the largest trading venues in the world
3. Exchanges Supported:
Europe North & South America Asia & Pacific
BATS Alpha ASX - Australian Stock Exchange
BME & MEFF Aqua Equities HKFE - Hong Kong Futures Exchange
Borsa Italiana BATS KRX - Korea Stock Exchange
Budapest Stock Exchange BIDS Trading OSE - Osaka Securities Exchange
Bulgaria SE BM&F Bovespa SGX - Singapore Stock Exchange
Burgundy Boston Options Exchange (BOX) TAIFEX- Taiwan Futures Exchange
CHI-X Europe CBOE TFX - Tokyo Financial Exchange
Eurex CBOT TOCOM - Tokyo Commodity Exchange
ICE Chicago Stock Exchange TSE - Tokyo Stock Exchange
LIFFE CHI-X Canada
London Metal Exchange CME
LSE Currenex
Nasdaq OMX Direct Edge
NQ Nordics Burgundy ICE Futures US
NYSE ARCA Europe ISE Options Exchange
NYSE Euronext POP (Paris) ISE Stock Exchange
NYSE POP (Amsterdam) Kansas City Board of Trade
NYSE POP (Brussels) Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGE)
Paris Bourse SA Montreal Exchange
Plus Markets NASDAQ
SIX Swiss Exchange NASDAQ OMX BX
RTS NASDAQ OMX PHLX
SIX Swiss Exchange New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
Turquoise New York Stock Exchange
Wiener Börse AG NYSE AMEX
Wiener Ireland NYSE ARCA
Xetra Omega
Pacific Stock Exchange (PCX)
Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX)
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For more information go to www.cfnservices.com / lowlatency@cfnservices.com / +1-703-788-6633