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Fidessa opens hub in Singapore to support local market demand

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Fidessa group, a provider of trading, market data and connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, has opened a hub in Singapore to supplement its existing Asian centres in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

The move is in direct response to growing demand for Fidessa’s trading and connectivity services throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Fidessa’s hubs provide access to its Software as a Service trading platform as well as to its ultra low-latency market data and global liquidity network solutions. 

The new centre is co-located with Chi-East, the forthcoming pan-Asian liquidity venue that is a joint venture between Chi-X Global and the Singapore Exchange. This will ensure low-latency connectivity to this new market for clients. It will also improve low-latency access for member traders to the SGX through its new high-speed API.

Jean-Pierre Baron, managing director for Fidessa Asia Pacific, says: “This announcement demonstrates a clear investment by Fidessa in the region for the future. We are currently seeing strong signs of growth in Asia-Pacific: indeed, this move has been driven by demand from our established client base as well as from new prospects. We have been able to draw on our global experience of running mission-critical systems to design the optimum set-up here, and that, coupled with the economies of scale we are in a position to exploit, makes it a very compelling proposition for clients.”

BT will facilitate the establishment of the data centre hub through the BT Radianz Proximity Solution that was recently extended to both Singapore and Hong Kong and will provide closer proximity to the exchange and other trading venues.

Andy Nicholson, vice president, global banking and financial markets, BT, says: “The Asia Pacific trading market is going from strength to strength and we are pleased to be working with a firm such as Fidessa to underpin that expansion. Financial market participants increasingly need to be at the forefront of network technology and trading venues that can be accessed via services such as BT Radianz Proximity Solution are best placed to extend their reach to a larger trading community.”

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