Sell Side Services
Connecting hedge funds, brokers and markets
Connecting Market Participants
The Options PIPE® platform connects numerous, diverse hedge fund clients to prime brokers and other counter-parties, as well as to market data and execution services.
Centralised and Optimised
High-quality, centralised broker connectivity and broker relationships are made available to all existing and new clients. This removes technical frictions from fund-broker relationships and ensures the best possible, fully-managed data connections for clients.
Latency Reduction Opportunities
Options’ clients are frequently seeking the advantages offered by one prime broker or another, and the PIPE Velocity network has unique opportunities for brokers to reduce execution latency and enhance service offerings to hedge fund clients.
Projects Without IT Constraints
Expand to meet business goals and project deadlines. Options offers unmatched experience and technical expertise in financial technology infrastructure and can help to bypass internal IT and budgetary constraints with high-performance, robust and cost-effective systems hosting with lowest latency market access where required.
Solutions
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.
Features
- 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.
- Long-term industry experience & expertise