Inside Market Data, an Incisive Media Publication, has named CFN Services, a finalist for the 2011 Inside Market Data – Best Data Networking and Infrastructure Provider. Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards recognize industry excellence with market data, reference data and enterprise data management. CFN Services is joined by 6 other firms in this category including; NYSE Technologies , Thomson Reuters, and Equinix.

“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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San Mateo, CA – June 11, 2010 – Red Herring announced today that it has selected CFN Services as a Finalist for Red Herring’s North America 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across North America. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

“This year was especially difficult,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. The finalists selected all show great promise, so now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners for the Red Herring North America award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far.”

Finalists for the 2010 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award are selected based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries were considered for the award.

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Conference in San Diego June 22-24, 2010. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on June 24 at the event.

Webinar: Trading Beyond the Horizon

Trading Beyond the Horizon: Fragmentation Drives Multi-Market Execution Join us for a Webinar on June 30 Learn how to optimize your trading architecture for low latency Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: www.a-teamgroup.com/webinar/trading-beyond-the-horizon/ In 2010, financial markets participants will continue to expand their trading activities as liquidity increasingly becomes fragmented, seeking alpha in new markets, best execution in dark pools, arbitrage opportunities across the order book and by implementing high frequency and complex, multi-leg, cross asset class strategies. The successful trading operations will leverage an infrastructure that leverages high-speed long haul and metro communications along with optimized use of proximity and co-location sites to access multiple, geographically dispersed execution venues with the lowest latency. Participants are looking to implement flexible networking architectures to keep pace with market developments, while at the same time they need to retain management control of this strategic capability in order to continually optimize their proprietary trading and customer brokerage businesses. Join us for a webinar where you will hear from, and have a chance to ask questions of, a panel of industry experts who will address the issues of implementing an optimized trading architecture. Speakers: Peter Harris (moderator) President, Americas A-Team Group Mark Casey President CFN Services Gregory E. Smith Vice Chairman Chi-X Global Dan Bergman VP of High Performance Engineering Lime Brokerage LLC Donal Byrne CEO Corvil Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT Sponsored & Presented by: Co-presented by: Produced by: System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000 Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

TradeTechWest

TradeTech West 2010, October 4 – 6  2010

Westin at Market Street – San Francisco

The e-trading landscape is being radically transformed by two irresistible forces: proximity trading and cloud computing. Together they create rich opportunities for e-services providers. So what are the drivers and how can firms stay ahead of the curve?”Though all trading firms want low latency,” argues Mark Casey, president of CFN Services, a managed telecominfrastructure services company, ”there is a balancing of price, latency and time-to-market that all trading firms must prioritize.” Full Article Available at Automated Trader