Keep connected without the complexity

With electronic orders and trading volumes dramatically increasing, you need connectivity that delivers. As a result, the traditional model of multiple services spread across separate circuits, suppliers, equipment and management is no longer effective.

That’s why you need a solution that reduces complexity and costs – a way to connect to investors, traders, brokers, dealers, exchanges, services, applications and customers through fast, reliable and secure connectivity.

Financial services expertise you can rely on

As a market-leading financial network provider, BT offers you:

• Experience: over 25 years’ experience, providing market-leading solutions for the financial services industry.
• Expertise: BT understands the complex business processes and networking requirements of banks, brokers, exchanges, insurance companies and other financial services providers.
• Resources: with over 2,000 financial services industry experts, BT delivers products and services that drive innovation and increase your competitive advantage.
• Global reach: BT provides solutions for enterprise voice and data communications, network connectivity and hosting for low-latency electronic trading, and secure messaging services. All are designed specifically to meet the highest demands of the financial services industry around the world.

Reduce the complexity and cost of your financial services connectivity

BT Radianz Cloud is an industry leading connectivity and hosting platform designed and managed exclusively for the unique requirements of the financial services community. It offers you fast, secure, reliable connectivity and hosting, so you can:

• Consolidate all your external connectivity onto a single connection, saving you money, time, circuits, equipment, maintenance and management.
• Stay connected to the markets as BT’s award-winning shared market infrastructure is engineered to be fully redundant, offering you the capacity, security and resilience you need.
• Scale your connectivity quickly and remotely as market volumes grow or your requirements change. This means you can connect to new services and trade counterparties in as little as one day.
• Access the services, applications, trading partners and customers you need. BT Radianz Cloud connects a global community of more than 10,000 sites from every major financial centre around the world. Plus, with more than 250 service providers, it enables access to over 550 pre-trade, trade and post-trade applications across the securities trade cycle.

A single, fully redundant, fully managed connectivity service

BT Radianz Cloud provides you with connectivity to more than 50 of the world’s securities and derivatives exchanges and alternative trading venues. These include electronic communication networks (ECNs), multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), automated trading systems (ATSs) and more than 60 of the world’s foreign exchange single and multi-bank trading portals.

Through Radianz, BT offers the access you need to hundreds of pre-trade, trade execution, and post-trade services through a single, fully redundant, fully managed connectivity service.

Reduce costs, streamline communications and free-up resources

The BT Radianz Cloud is specifically designed to deliver the excellent performance, industry-leading security and constant availability you need for critical applications and processes. This enables you to:

• Reduce your transaction and operating costs, and support compliance initiatives as BT Radianz Cloud consolidates your critical IT and telecommunications infrastructure.
• Streamline communications between services, utilities, trading partners and customers from around the world.
• Free-up resources by redeploying staff to other areas of your business. This helps you focus on core competencies that support and generate revenue growth as BT provides you with a fully managed service.