According to Interxion, the agreement will enable Fortis Bank Global Clearing (FBGC) to provide its customers with low-latency access to the major financial markets in London from the Interxion Financial Hub, a close-knit community of Interxion-based capital markets participants.
Fortis Bank Global Clearing will be housed in Interxion’s dedicated financial hub. Designed for capital market participants, the financial hub provides lower latencies of any independent colocation provider to Europe’s major liquidity venues, and already houses a range of trading venues, broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and financial service providers.
As a carrier-neutral data center operator, Interxion also provides a choice of connectivity options for direct cross connects within the data center, in addition to a range of network service providers for external connectivity.
Neil Singleton, global head of market access architecture at Fortis Bank Global Clearing, said: “Interxion is one of the key access points for the London markets, and their dedicated capital markets infrastructure will help us give our customers a competitive edge.
“By colocating at Interxion’s City of London, data center we are able to provide clients with faster access to the markets, allowing them to increase their trading efficiency and grow their business volumes while being able to react faster to changes in the exchanges and trading venues.”
