Alpha Platform™ enables clients of both CFN and Link worldwide to capitalize on new market opportunities in Brazil

Herndon, VA (PRWeb).  August 1, 2011 — CFN Services, Inc., the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced Link Investimentos; one of the largest independent broker-dealers in Brazil to provide lowest latency market access to Brazil’s equities, commodities and futures exchange, has joined the Alpha Alliance™. The inclusion of Link into the Alpha Alliance allows trading firms globally to extend their current trading strategies to Brazil with guaranteed lowest latency access for today and the future.

“Partnering with CFN Services to provide a high performance market access solution for current and new trading members offers a distinct competitive advantage,” says Nilson Monteiro, head of High Volume DMA with Link Investimentos.  “CFN’s Alpha Platform™ broadens our reach to the global traders who want to capture the unique trading opportunities in Brazil. The benefits that CFN’s Alpha Platform and its world-class technology bring to our brokerage business are clear.”

“The Alpha Platform provides a turn-key trading solution to global financial institutions looking to enter the Brazilian market,” said Sebastian Yoon, CFN Services’ VP of Financial Services. “CFN is committed providing market leading managed trading infrastructure services in Brazil, and adding Link Investimentos to the Alpha Alliance further expands our full trading enablement support in Brazil.”

About Link Investimentos

Link Investimentos, founded in 1998, is the leader in exchange-traded and fixed-income commodities in Brazil. This innovative and dynamic financial institution includes Brokerage, Wealth Management, Commodities, and Research divisions, each focused on serving the needs of clients seeking sophisticated solutions and technology.

As a leader in the high-frequency trading market, Link’s High Volume DMA team focuses on developing solutions for quantitative institutional investors, recognized as the benchmark agency-only broker for HFTs in Brazil.  Link also offers Co-location and Proximity Co-location Services to deploy custom solutions for its clients.

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 http://www.cfnservices.com/Partner-Channel/alpha-alliance.html

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

Ricardo Alves Caetano, Link Investimentos

55 11 3073-6730
rcaetano@linkinvestimentos.com.br

BM&FBovespa does it again.  Operating one of Brazil’s biggest securities exchange, gained the most in a year in Sao Paulo trading after JPMorgan Chase & Co. said the stock price doesn’t reflect the company’s growth prospects. With a 7.24% rise on March 10.  This follows their announcement of going over 70,000 in January 2010. Not to mention another landmark as the number of single stock option contracts traded on its derivatives section in March exceeded that traded on any of the largest US options exchanges, according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges. The Brazilian bourse traded 87.5m that month, compared with 79.3m at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, 66.6m at the International Securities Exchange, and 58.9m at Nasdaq OMX PHLX.

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