Buy Side Services
Optimising Hedge Fund Technology
Connect to the Options PIPE® for the full range of technology services demanded by modern trading entities.
Focus on trading performance and business growth without the costs, risks and distractions of DIY in-house IT. Options offers the freedom and simplicity of a fully managed service and replaces open-ended IT expenditure with clear, predictable, and flexible service charges.
Whether building on an existing technology investment or starting from the ground up, the Options PIPE® platform provides optimised technology solutions with the highest levels of functionality, performance and business continuity. All solutions are delivered as services from the Options PIPE® network through redundant fibre-optic connections to your business sites around the world.
Trader Services
Velocity gets you as close as possible to the market with the benefits of fully-managed services for servers and storage, market access, and networking that includes free backhaul to your local region.
Momentum
An optimised managed hosting service for all front-, middle-, and back-office financial applications.
Momentum allows businesses with an existing IT infrastructure to add scale and performance quickly and without capital or HR investment.
Reduce the time-to-market of new strategies and projects and profit from Options’ advice, expertise and experience.
Completely eliminate the need for on-site IT and IT staff. Reduce business risks and constraints. Surpass regulatory requirements. Strengthen value and investor confidence. Core – focussing on core competencies.
Features
- Trader workstations, networking, email, IP telephony & voicemail, internet connectivity, firewalling and policy control, file & print servers, anti-malware, redundancy, backups, business-continuity and disaster recovery
- Market data (Reuters RMDS & direct exchange feeds), complex OMS/PMS hosting, bespoke trading systems hosting, world-wide broker connectivity, CRM, regulatory compliance, long-term industry experience & expertise
- High performance blade and grid server farms and SAN storage, close to home or in remote locations, high capacity low latency networking, application servers, SQL servers, web/ftp servers
- Direct connectivity to all major exchanges, lowest latency trading model hosting, backhaul from remote regions to local premises