If you decide you want to take the plunge, how do you pick the best sources and infrastructure to provide the lowest cost of entry while optimizing execution success? There are many alternatives and providers you can partner with in order to lower your cost of entry. Event-based trading is a growing category and more firms are seeing the benefits of leveraging events in their trading and risk management strategies in an effort to increase alpha and/or mitigate risk. Come find out how you can get involved in this exciting category of trading.

Learn more about this emerging trading strategy from our panel of experts on news and event trading including:

MODERATOR
Pete Harris
Editor/Publisher of Low-Latency.com
President, Americas and Editor-at-Large, A-Team Group

PANELISTS
• CFN Services: Mark Casey, President & CEO
• Need to Know News (NTKN): Clint Rhea, COO
• Pico Trading: Bruce Boytim, Managing Director
• Selerity: Ryan Terpstra, Founder & CEO
• Streambase: Mark Palmer, CEO

WHEN
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
1:00 – 1:50pm

WHERE
FIA Expo 2011 – Chicago, InfoXchange Vendor Solution Center
Ballroom C
Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

The Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth for the three-year period from 2007 to 2010 and represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy – America’s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Inuit, Oracle and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500.

“We are proud to be recognized once again by Inc. magazine,” said Mark Casey, founder and CEO of CFN Services. “Our success directly correlates with the success of our clients, and that’s what our dedicated team focuses on each and every day. Our proprietary technology and expertise in network and application delivery has helped our clients find new sources of revenue while simultaneously streamlining their costs and driving efficiencies in their businesses. Continuing to grow our company and help our customers become more successful is truly exciting and serves as a testament to our hard-working employees and partners.”

CFN Services provides high performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource®, a global network optimization platform, CFN Services builds low-latency private cloud solutions to solve the performance challenges of latency and jitter in distributed IT environments. Within the financial services industry, CFN has established its position as a leading provider of managed ultra-low-latency trading solutions for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. Whether the application and data are dispersed across town or around the globe, CFN Services deploys turnkey solutions within and between public and private data centers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Press Contacts:
CFN Services
Lauren Smith
+1-703-788-6633
Lauren.Smith@cfnservices.com

Implementing BM&FBovespa into your Trading Strategy: Opportunities and Challenges

Date: September 14, 2011 – 4:45pm- 7:30pm
Where: Mid-America Club
200 E. Randolph Drive, 80th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601  Tel: 312-856-9483

Today, Brazil has been in the news and much is being said about the richness of its market.  But what does it mean for the US trader?  What opportunities are available and what do you need to know before you implement a trading strategy in the Brazilian market? These issues and others will be addressed in an after-hours forum sponsored by CFN Services, Link Investimentos and supported by The Mankoff Company. Our panel discussion will address several issues including the challenges of working with the Brazilian exchange BM&FBOVESPA, regulations, tax issues and mission critical topics involved when adding Sao Paulo to your trading strategy. 

Join us on September 14th for this highly topical event and learn how you can best exploit trading opportunities in the Brazilian market.

Opportunities and Challenges in Establishing a Trading Firm in Brazil

4:45 pm Registration

5:15 pm Opening Remarks & Panel I: Trading in Brazil: Market Overview, Regulatory Challenges and the Criteria Necessary to Establish a Successful HFT Firm

This panel addresses:

• Examining the current state of the Brazilian market: Why does now seem like an opportune time to start up a firm? What does a US trading firm need to know before they broach the Brazilian market?
• Understanding regulations and tax issues in Brazil and how it will impact your business
• Buy vs. Build: Determining which will expedite your time to revenue
• Selecting a partner: Identifying the best model and brokers which align with your strategy and incorporating the best strategies for Brazilian trading flow
• HFT in Brazil: Which asset classes offer the best opportunities and will provide the greatest liquidity
• A look ahead: What is the future for Brazilian HFT market, BM&FBovespa and beyond?

Moderated by Danielle Tierney, Industry Analyst, Securities & Investments, Aite Group

Panelists:

Lucy Pamboukdjian, International Business Development Officer, BM&FBOVESPA

Mario Palhares Director,  BM&F BANK

Nilson Monteiro, Director High Volume DMA,  Link Investimentos

Wil Tirado, VP, Network Infrastructure and Engineering, CFN Services

Brian H. Zboril, Director of Business Development, Infinium Capital Management

 6:30 pm  Networking Reception Following the conclusion of the panels join us for a Networking  Reception to continue the discussion of opportunities available in the Brazilian market

Who Will be Attending the Event:

• FX, Options and Futures Trading Desks
• Proprietary Trading Desks
• High Frequency Traders
• Traders
• Hedge Funds
• Commodity Trading Advisors
• Risk Managers
• Portfolio Managers
• Broker/Dealers
• Technology Firms
• Solution Providers
• Law Firms
• Consulting Firms
• Advisory Firms

Date: September 14, 2011 – 4:45pm- 7:30pm
Where: Mid-America Club
200 E. Randolph Drive, 80th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601  Tel: 312-856-9483
Attire: The Mid-Atlantic Club is business casual, jeans and sneakers are not allowed

For more information please contact Lauren Smith at CFN Services: 703-788-6633 or lauren.smith@cfnservices.com

BM&FBOVESPA is a Brazilian company, created in 2008, through the combination of the SãoPaulo Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo) and the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange (Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros). It is the most important Brazilian institution for intermediate equity market transactions and the only securities, commodities and futures exchange in Brazil. BM&FBOVESPA further acts as a driver for the Brazilian capital markets. The BM&FBOVESPA volumes have more than quintupled in just six years and daily trading volumes are expected to hit 6.5 billion per day by end of 2011.

Access

Types of Direct Market Access (DMA) available for BM&FBOVESPA

• DMA 1- Customer trades on the Mega Bolsa System via brokerage house
• DMA-2 – Customer connects directly to the technology structure partnering with an authorized access provider or broker, such as CFN Services, GL-Net or Marco Polo to access the exchange, allowing them to trade through multiple brokers such as Link Investimentos
• DMA-3 – Client connects to the technology structure via a direct connection
• DMA-4- Client proximity hosts their infrastructure within the exchanges data center and connects to the exchange via a cross connect

The Brazilian regulatory landscape does not provide for naked access but instead there are regulatory requirements that all clients have to go through pre-trade credit controls. For the DMA 1 and DMA 2 models, the broker is responsible for checking orders against pre-defined limits, whereas with DMA 3 and DMA 4, the exchange provides the pre-trade credit control tool for the brokers to configure and control their customers’ limits

Tax Issues

In October 2009 a 2% tax to foreigners was introduced and the subsequent 1.5% tax added to American Depository Receipts (ADRs). BM&F BOVESPA believes that the government is not mulling further tax measures to kill the golden goose of capital markets. After all, it wants investors to pay for the country’s huge infrastructure needs. They include the stadiums, airports, local transportion and housing associated with the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics as well as the $225 billion in pre-salt capitalization for Petrobras. In spite of tax implications of trading in Sao Paulo, BM&FBOVESPA has been seeing unprecedented increase in trading volumes from International firms.

Competition

According to John Rumsey, who states “Investors expect to see alternative trading platforms emerge to challenge BM&FBOVESPA and expect that their introduction will have a substantial impact on pricing. The regulator, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, is seen as keen to encourage the proliferation of new platforms and Brazilian legislation allows them.”

Brazil is a ripe market for investors looking to find new liquidity. With protections already in place that meet the standards of the Frank-Dodd Act, active lobbying to address tax issues for international traders, and the upcoming World Cup and Olympics, Brazil is not a market to avoid.

Summary

Take advantage of fully managed solutions from CFN Services’ Alpha Platform™, to receive the lowest latency connectivity from any global trading venue. Take away concerns about customs clearing, managing foreign country contracts, finding a broker or authorized access provider by letting the Alpha Alliance™ take care of as much or as little of those services that you require. Get in early to take advantage of the technology refresh program, which will provide existing Alpha Platform™ clients, the ability to shave microseconds off the already lowest latency available.

Link Investimentos Joins CFN Services’ Alpha Alliance ™ to provide lowest latency market access to BM&FBovespa Exchange

Herndon, VA (PRWeb).  July 27, 2011 — CFN Services, Inc., the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced the Alpha Alliance™, an innovative network of trading services firms delivering fully integrated and customizable solutions for the global electronic trading market.  The Alpha Alliance brings together best-of-breed trading technologies, applications, and services across the full trading life cycle, from analysis and decision-making, to risk management, execution, and settlement of the trade.

Alliance partners deploy their solutions on CFN ’s Alpha Platform™, a low latency trading infrastructure offering the highest performance for market data delivery and trade execution worldwide.  Technology partners rapidly deploy their applications and services on a proximity hosted platform as part of a comprehensive solution, improving application delivery performance while lowering costs and expanding access to new markets.

Alpha Alliance partners collaborate to develop full service enhanced, customized solutions that best advance the unique trading strategies of their clients. With access to the technical capabilities and market-specific expertise within the Alpha Alliance network, clients and business partners interact in completely new ways.  Trading firms ultimately benefit from having access to the market-leading solutions necessary to remain competitive in today’s rapidly evolving financial markets.

“CFN is very excited to play a pivotal role in taking automated trading solutions to the next level,” said Mark Casey, President of CFN Services. “Bringing the best technology, product and service firms together on one platform enables next-generation trading solutions capable of fully leveraging the rapid growth in global electronic trading. Alpha Alliance members are setting the standard for high performance trading.”

To find out now how Alpha Alliance can bring your trading solutions to the next level

About CFN Services in the Global Financial Markets
CFN Services is a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, providing solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. CFN Services operates the low-latency  Alpha Platform™, a high performance low latency global infrastructure that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets. CFN is the sponsor of the Alpha Alliance which is setting the standard for next generation infrastructure and providing leading edge trading solutions. For more information visit CFN Services website

About CFN Services

CFN Services provides high performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource^®, a global network optimization platform, CFN Services builds low-latency private cloud solutions to solve the performance challenges of latency and jitter in distributed IT environments. Whether the application and data are dispersed across town or around the globe, CFN Services deploys turnkey solutions within and between public and private data centers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: http://www.cfnservices.com

Press Contacts:

Judy Misbin-May, CFN Services

+1-703-788-6633

judy.misbin-may@cfnservices.com

Come hear from experts on News and Event  Trading to learn more about this emerging trading strategy.

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SIFMA Vendor Solution Center
Open to Expo and full Registrants of SIFMA
Hilton New York, Avenue of the Americas
Room: Morgan Suite 2nd Floor
June 14, 2011
1:30 – 2:30pm

Speakers:

Moderator: Pete Harris, Analyst, A-Team Group

Clint Rhea – COO – Need to Know News
Ryan Terpstra – CEO – Selerity
Andrew Mariathasan – President RTT News
Mark Casey – CEO – CFN Services

“We are pleased to be included among the leading companies in this category,” said Mark Casey, President and CEO of CFN Services, “this recognition is validation of our commitment to our clients, and our optimized delivery of their market data and trading applications worldwide.”

Judges for this category include representatives from Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase and HSBC among the 12-member panel. The awards are presented annually to recognize achievement in market and reference data, as well as enterprise data management. The winner of the 2011 award will be announced in New York on May 24, 2011.

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Volatility is key in event trading because the event may cause market or stock movements greater than anticipated by financial models. Volatility is a key component of option trading and the market frequently ignores specific events. The increase in the option value for a put or a call that a major event should warrant is not always accounted for in the price.

Speed is the name of the game in Event Trading. Due to the nature of Event Trading and the quick turn around from announcement to execution latency is a key variable that will predict trading profit success. With critical, market-moving data being released directly from the U.S. Departments of Labor, Commerce and Treasury, those companies receiving the data first and having the infrastructure in place to react quickly, will see increased execution success.

As a component of the CFN premier delivery platform for market data and trading applications in top liquidity venues around the world, CFN is offering the lowest latency connectivity to trading firms and market data providers who are obtaining their updates directly from U.S. Departments of Labor, Commerce and Treasury.

Get Service Levels Agreements for: Price, Latency and Resilience, from the only provider to offer all of the above: CFN Services. CFN is committed to being the Leading Provider of delivery of Economic & Government News Data.

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All of this makes BM&FBovespa an exchange to not be ignored. In this year of asset and geographical diversification in trading strategies, BM&FBovespa is expected to see unusually higher growth of volume.

CFN Services is proud to be part of this growth, by providing lowest latency connectivity from all the major trading venues back to Sao Paulo. CFN Services, is the only provider to offer the Latency Improvement Plan. When you sign your contract with CFN you know the latency you will receive today and are committed to improve that latency during the duration of the contract – ensuring you are still the lowest latency in the future.

For lowest latency connections, capacity is limited – get in the queue now to reserve not just your low latency to Sao Paulo for today, but ensure you are part of the next network improvement plan

Contact us now:  lowlatency@cfnservices.com    703-788-6633