Financial markets connectivity that reflects your needs

Speed of execution and reliability are critical for traders working in the electronic environment. As electronic trading increases, the traditional point-to-point model can no longer accommodate your connectivity needs.

Now, with BT, you can benefit from consolidating your complex and fragmented infrastructure using a single connection for multiple services, sharing costs and reducing the complexity inherent in operating a global network.

A track record you can rely on

BT is consistently recognised as an industry leader by analysts, customers and peers:

• BT Radianz Cloud has won the Waters Award for "Best Financial Network Provider" for five years running.
• BT was awarded The Bankers Awards for best compliance initiative of the year.
• BT won the Financial-i award for BT Radianz as “The Most Innovative Global IP Network" in 2006.
• BT won the 2009 Waters Award for "Best Hosting Provider" for BT Radianz Proximity

Radianz is used by:

• The world’s top 10 global stock exchanges.
• The world’s top 50 global broker-dealers.
• 48 of the world’s top 50 asset managers.
• 44 of the world’s top 50 global hedge funds.
• The world’s top 10 global fixed income securities firms.

Your complete financial network

BT Radianz Cloud offers you a range of hosting and access options to suit your needs.

BT Radianz Hosting
BT offers a range of hosting services. Options range from collocation for lower latency, to a choice of management, including managing your network infrastructure and proactive monitoring of your servers. Plus, our BT Radianz Proximity offers you a fully-managed service combining hosting and connectivity.

BT Radianz Provider Subscription
BT Radianz Provider Subscription is the financial industry’s low latency hosting and distribution platform for applications and services. More than 255 of the world’s leading financial content and service providers trust BT to distribute their applications to their customers around the world.

Member Access
As a member of the BT Radianz community you gain access to applications and trading services through the BT Radianz Cloud. BT Radianz consolidates all of your external market connectivity onto a single connection, ensuring fast, secure, reliable access to trading partners and services throughout the securities trade cycle.

Realtime Monitoring
BT's RaPort Realtime Monitoring provides you with visibility into your BT Radianz financial connectivity, enabling you to monitor capacity and performance. This helps ensure that your access to financial markets is always at optimum performance levels.

A range of added options
Enjoy a flexible solution as our connectivity and hosting platform supports advanced products and capabilities for ultra-low latency access, distribution and messaging for market data, trade execution and post-trade securities.

Providing better returns on capital and operating expenditure

When a fixed income liquidity and market data aggregator needed to combine the trading operations of 15 of the world’s leading global banks they turned to BT. That’s because only BT could offer a managed outsourced solution, providing better returns on capital and operating expenditure. BT provided:

• Build and management of three types of hosting and connectivity environments, including testing and integration, production, and disaster recovery.
• Access to services, applications, trading partners and customers through the BT RadianzNet financial markets community.
• Oracle database support and administration.
• Client and partner collaboration to maintain minimal assets. BT worked in partnership with the 15 investment banks that make up the transaction system provider and leveraged strong relationships with other ICT partners, such as Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and Oracle.
• A solution designed to provide in-depth flexibility and business continuity.

Reduce your cost of ownership

The traditional connectivity model requires a separate circuit for each exchange or market centre. This can stretch even the largest financial services company’s budget to the limit. It requires multiple circuits, vendors, equipment, space, plus dedicated staff and all their associated costs.

BT Radianz Cloud is a fully-managed service that consolidates all of your connectivity onto a single, redundant connection. This means you save money and data centre space, enabling you to re-deploy staff to focus on core business and generate revenue growth. Studies have shown that this model can reduce a firm’s financial markets connectivity by as much as 70 per cent.