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FINANCIAL SERVICES

Recent regulatory changes and global economic events have sparked significant shifts in the securities industry. The explosion in market data rates, technological obligations created by new regulations, advanced trading capabilities, as well as obligations to improve fraud prevention and risk management place tremendous demands on the IT infrastructure and data center needs of today’s securities industry. Scalable and reliable network infrastructure is required to support complex, real-time transaction processing and data analyses common in this industry.

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Why Financial Services Companies Choose Equinix

Connectivity

As a neutral data center provider, Equinix provides direct interconnection to all of the top global, regional, and metropolitan communication providers. By colocating in an Equinix data center, you can eliminate the jitter, latency, and failure potential of the local loop.

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Capacity

Most office buildings located in major market hubs like New York, London, Tokyo, and Frankfurt have inadequate power supplies to support the level of power density required by the latest server technologies used by capital market participants. Equinix state-of-the-art data centers are equipped with world-class power and cooling management systems.

Resilience

At Equinix, the data center business is our business. We provide the expertise and proven operational excellence so you can focus on your core business. With the best uptime and availability numbers in the industry, our centers are built to minimize and prevent disruption to your operations.

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Cost Control

Building and managing your own data center can be an expensive, risky proposition. Using Equinix centers allows you to take advantage of tremendous economies of scale, from building security and design to carrier access to power generation and redundant backups.

What is Equinix Financial eXchange?

Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest of capital market participants that locate operations within Equinix data centers to implement a high-performance, low-latency connectivity infrastructure within a neutral environment.

Capital market participants include execution venues, buy-and-sell side firms, market data providers, and network service providers that directly exchange data within the same physical location with strategic partners, customers, and vendors.

The proximity of Equinix Financial eXchange enables these financial community participants to expand operations within a scalable environment, open new markets that they were previously challenged to enter, improve reliability and redundancy of operations, and to reduce costs by eliminating the need to link to multiple partners over significant geographic distances. It also enables the fastest possible links to the world’s largest trading venues, as well as access to a critical mass of network service providers.

Launched in 2003, Equinix Financial eXchange now extends to hundreds of members and is immediately available at Equinix IBX centers located in Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Paris, and London. Tokyo and other markets are soon to follow.

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