NYSE Euronext Plans Global Network Of Trading Hubs
November 23 2010 - 4:55PM
Dow Jones News
NYSE Euronext (NYX) plans to replicate two major data center
units in the U.S. and the U.K. with as many as 40 smaller
facilities in financial centers including Frankfurt, Tokyo and Sao
Paulo, according to senior executives.
The "liquidity hubs" will offer market connections and
technology services to local banks and trading firms, building upon
the two proprietary facilities the Big Board parent launched to
house its own trading systems.
"This is a springboard from the two data centers that we own to
create other points of presence at destinations of importance
around the world," said Stanley Young, chief executive of NYSE
Technologies, in an interview.
The expansion is already under way and 14 European locations are
seen coming online in the first quarter of 2011.
The move represents the next phase in the transatlantic exchange
operator's plan to diversify from trading and listings into
higher-margin hardware and system maintenance business providing
high-speed access to platforms across the globe.
NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer this year set a $1 billion
annual revenue target for the technology arm to reach within five
years. About $500 million was allotted to construct the new data
centers in Mahwah, N.J., and Basildon, east of London. They house
the company's own trade-matching engines as well as customer
systems.
NYSE Euronext also is exporting its exchange systems to smaller
markets around the world, like the Philippine Stock Exchange, while
weighing additional acquisitions such as last year's $144 million
deal for trading technology developer Nyfix Inc.
With the proprietary data centers now functional and NYSE
Euronext shifting its exchanges to the new facilities, Young said
the next step is to expand in other, existing data centers in key
financial centers.
The plan is to add space in units run by companies such as
Equinix Inc. (EQIX), Savvis Inc. (SVVS) and Telx Group, he said,
rather than building any more proprietary facilities.
Young said NYSE Euronext could eventually have between 25 and 40
liquidity hubs of varying size around the globe. Some will
initially focus just on collecting market pricing data, while
others will function as miniature versions of the Manwah and
Basildon facilities.
In locales like such as Chicago, Frankfurt, Singapore and
Brazil, where NYSE Euronext already has some market infrastructure,
the company aims to add more services. It also plans to move into
new markets like Hong Kong and Tokyo.
"The whole notion is to provide services to our clients in
places besides where we have our own markets," said Bob Moitoso,
senior vice president at NYSE Technologies.
The span of each facility's offering will depend upon local
customers' needs and region-specific rules. For instance, some
jurisdictions may restrict the offering of co-location services, in
which firms situate their servers within the same physical building
as an exchange's matching engines to maximize the speed of
trading.
Young said NYSE Technologies hopes to offer in many places a
"wholly hosted" trading service, managing traders' hardware,
exchange connections, price data and risk controls as a single
package.
-By Jacob Bunge, Dow Jones Newswires; 312-750-4117;
jacob.bunge@dowjones.com
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