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

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

Companies’ first deployment is designed to enable Canadian website tracking aggregated market-data messages across North American exchanges

Herndon, VA (PRWeb). — June 16, 2011 — CFN Services, the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced that Exegy, the market leader in high-performance ticker plants, has selected the Alpha Platform™ to deploy the ultra-low-latency, hardware-accelerated Exegy Ticker Plant.

With unmatched throughput and ultra-low latency, the Exegy Ticker Plant processes and enriches data for the world’s leading collocated trading operations. A single Exegy Ticker Plant provides all the updates for www.MarketDataPeaks.com, the first public website that provides a minute-by-minute account of the aggregated volume of market-data messages across major North American exchanges.

“The Alpha Platform™ provides an ideal infrastructure for the Exegy Ticker Plant offering,” said Jeff Wells, Vice President of Product Marketing, Exegy. “Our first deployment with CFN Services will be at the Toronto data center where we plan to create a MarketDataPeaks website for Canada.”

The infrastructure that forms the foundation of the Alpha Platform™ provides ultra-low-latency market data delivery and trade execution for some of the world’s most sophisticated high-frequency trading firms. Trading application vendors can now leverage this same infrastructure to jumpstart low-latency global delivery of their solutions, while trading firms can rapidly deploy these applications in a high performance environment to capture more Alpha and increased trading profits.

“CFN Services has launched a premier platform for seamless integration of low-latency market and event data with high-performance trading applications,” said Sebastian Yoon, CFN Services’ Vice President of Financial Services.  “We’re excited about bringing Exegy’s ticker plant technology to the Alpha Platform™, further expanding the market leading solutions it integrates across key liquidity venues worldwide.”

About Exegy Exegy provides ultra-high performance hardware-accelerated market data appliances (www.exegy.com/tickerplant) that efficiently process and enrich market data for the world’s leading financial organizations. Exegy’s unique market data products respond to financial organizations’ growing demands for low latency, reduced cost of ownership, and flexibility. Exegy’s products are compatible with leading operating systems and interconnects. For more information, please visit www.exegy.com.

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 global cloud that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets.

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.

Press Contacts:

CFN Services

Judy Misbin-May

+1-703-788-6633

judy.misbin-may@cfnservices.com

Exegy

Jeff Wells

+1-314-218-3626

jwells@exegy.com

How do you know if you should enter Event Trading?
Once 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?
Who are the players and what are the top successes in this trading arena?

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

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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Norcross, Georgia, USA and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. April 19, 2011. ADVA Optical Networking today announced that its solution has been selected by CFN Services to provide the industry-leading latency from Washington, D.C., to the New York/New Jersey trading venues. The availability of this route provides trading firms a competitive advantage for those who utilize data sourced from Washington, D.C. Leveraging ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000, the industry’s lowest-latency transmission solution, the CFN optical-fiber network will provide the N.Y./N.J. financial community the fastest available access—3.7 milliseconds RTD—to the Washington, D.C., information sources.

ADVA Optical Networking will be available to discuss the FSP 3000 and CFN’s New York-Washington, D.C., route on April 19, 2011, and April 28, 2011, at the A-Team Group conference, “The Business and Technology of Low-Latency Trading,” being held in London and New York City, respectively.

“CFN is committed to maintain an evergreen network that can quickly and seamlessly react to market demands and changes. This latency improvement for D.C.-N.Y./N.J. provides another proof-point to this commitment,” said Wil Tirado, vice president engineering and operations with CFN. “The ADVA FSP 3000 has firmly proven itself as the industry’s best-performing solution for low-latency financial trading, which supports CFN’s commitment to offer best-in-class solutions. ADVA Optical Networking’s technology roadmap and team of more than 500 engineers best position our customers to stay on top of the innovative features and functions that are required in this space today and in the future.”

“The differences in optical-networking routes and gear have grown more distinct and important as the tolerance to latency in executing trades has minimized,” said Brian Quigley, senior director of global strategy with ADVA Optical Networking. “We have a long history of partnering closely with financial firms around the globe to help them satisfy evolving requirements and to achieve business objectives, and these lessons-learned continue to inform the ongoing development of our FSP 3000 solution. We look forward to working with CFN and the users of this innovative New York-Washington, D.C., network.”

ADVA Optical Networking has served the financial community for more than 15 years, and the ADVA FSP 3000 platform has been successfully deployed by thousands of enterprise customers globally. For more information about the ADVA FSP 3000, please click here. To learn more about ADVA Optical Networking’s low-latency solutions, click here.

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ABOUT ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING

ADVA Optical Networking (FSE: ADV) is a global provider of intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions. With software-automated Optical+Ethernet transmission technology, the Company builds the foundation for high-speed, next-generation networks. The Company’s FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to customers’ networks while removing complexity and cost. With a flexible and fast-moving organization, ADVA Optical Networking forges close partnerships with its customers to meet the growing demand for data, storage, voice and video services. Thanks to reliable performance for more than 15 years, the Company has become a trusted partner for more than 250 carriers and 10,000 enterprises across the globe. For more information, please visit us at www.advaoptical.com.

ABOUT CFN SERVICES

CFN Services is a provider of custom, high performance network and application solutions to sophisticated global financial markets participants and network operators worldwide, as well as delivering the on the promise of 3G and 4G networks for mobile operators. Leveraging its proprietary global transport planning platform FiberSource, CFN enables carrier, enterprise, and government network operators to optimize across the key network variables of latency, diversity, bandwidth, and cost. For more information, visit www.cfnservices.com.

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www.advaoptical.com

CONTACTS:

FOR PRESS

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ADVA Optical Networking

t +1 301 920 0237 (U.S.)

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public-relations(at)advaoptical.com

Judy Misbin-May

CFN Services

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FOR INVESTORS

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ADVA Optical Networking

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t +86 755 8621 7400 (Asia)

investor-relations(at)advaoptical.com

Norcross, Georgia, USA and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. April 19, 2011. ADVA Optical Networking today announced that its solution has been selected by CFN Services to provide the industry-leading latency from Washington, D.C., to the New York/New Jersey trading venues. The availability of this route provides trading firms a competitive advantage for those who utilize data sourced from Washington, D.C. Leveraging ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 3000, the industry’s lowest-latency transmission solution, the CFN optical-fiber network will provide the N.Y./N.J. financial community the fastest available access—3.7 milliseconds RTD—to the Washington, D.C., information sources. Read More

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – April 14, 2011) - Telx®, a leading interconnection and colocationprovider instrategic North American markets, today announced that CFN Services, a leading provider of managed highfrequency trading (HFT) enablement services, has joined its Financial Business Exchange (FBX), a facility-based infrastructure platform that provides the capital markets community with unmatched proximity, latency and choice. As part of the FBX community in Telx’s world-classdata centers in Chicago and New York City, CFN Services canexpand the geographic reach of its global services by offering financial markets customers secure, low latency access to its Global Managed Financial Exchange Platform.

“CFN is pleased to be part of the Telx Financial Business Exchange, as it complements our Global Managed Financial Exchange Platform,” said Sebastian Yoon, Vice President of Financial Services Solutions for CFN Services. “CFN Services’ Financial Ecosystem seamlessly provides best in class, integrated, single source infrastructure solutions customized for each of our client’s needs, an approach that Telx shares. Partnering with a provider such as Telx FBX augments our ability to offer unique service level agreements, as well as optimized delivery and cost efficiencies for market data and low latency trading infrastructure.

CFN Services’ Global Managed Financial Exchange Platform is comprised of over 100 data centers connecting to thousands of market participants, including clients, brokers, exchanges, clearing houses, CSDs and market data providers in global futures, options, equities and FX exchanges. This platform allows trading firms to receive single vendor support of geographical and asset class diversity trading strategies. CFN Financial Exchange Platform is a vendor neutral infrastructure providing managed solutions for managed hosting, connectivity, hardware, network device monitoring, management and reporting, ensuring that each CFN client has the ability to receive the best solution to meet individual trading strategy; no two firms have the same exact needs.

“By participating in the Telx FBX, CFN Services has the competitive edge to offer key market participants direct access to its Global Managed Financial Exchange Platform through low latency network connectivity in a secure, strategic location,” said Michael Cattell, Vice President of Financial Markets for Telx. “Telx continues to add high value members to our FBX community, who leverage the many benefits of the direct connections available in our recently expanded New York and Chicago facilities.”

About Telx Financial Business Exchange (FBX)Telx Financial Business Exchange (FBX) is a high value community of financial exchanges, market data providers, order management vendors, independent software vendors, buy-side and sell side firms — all colocated in secure, Telx-managed data centers and interconnection facilities. FBX offers ultra low-latency connectivity, proximity hosting and direct market access to a growing list of the most important financial exchanges. Telx’s financial markets colocation facilities, strategically located at 111 8th Avenue in New York City, 100 Delawanna Avenue in Clifton, N.J., 350 East Cermak Road in downtown Chicago, and 300 Blvd East in Weehawken, NJ, provide customers an ideal environment to grow and manage their businesses by placing their networks in proximity to their key suppliers, partners, and customers, along with hundreds of leading telecom and data service providers. For more on the advantages of the Telx FBX, download this free financial markets case study.

About CFN Services
CFN Specializes in delivery of high performance networks, specifically for low latency global financial exchange connectivity, as well as delivering on the promise of 4G networks for mobile operators, by leveraging the first massively optimized, distributed virtual global data center infrastructure, developed by CFN. This infrastructure platform was designed to avoid undue latency and optimize efficiency and reliability; constructed using knowledge from CFN FiberSource®, a proprietary transport database planning platform. CFN enables carrier, enterprise, and government network operators to optimize their IT Infrastructure across the key network variables of latency, diversity, bandwidth, and cost. For more information: http://www.cfnservices.com.

About Telx
Telx is a leading provider of interconnection, colocation and business exchange services in strategic, high demand North American markets. With 15 premier facilities, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to the industry’s highest performance networks and access to more than 880+ customers, including leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with four facilities in the New York Metro area, two facilities in Chicago, two facilities in Dallas, three facilities in California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Clara) and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com.

Event trading involves trading focused on major events that can move a market, a market segment, or a particular stock and tend to focus on daily trading profits. For example, inflation data, Fed reports, weekly oil inventory data, interest rate hikes or cuts, earnings reports, Presidential or Congressional elections, or world events. The events are likely to move the market and provide abnormal returns.

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.

For more information go to www.cfnservices.com — lowlatency@cfnservices.com — +1-703-788-6633