Colt PrizmNet
Colt PrizmNet financial extranet
Colt PrizmNet: connect to the capital markets ecosystem
In today’s competitive capital markets landscape, market participants need to move fast to seize new opportunities. For many of these firms, accessing the right content and services – on time – remains a challenge.
Are you a provider of financial services, applications or market data looking to reach a growing community of capital markets participants? What if you could ensure rapid, reliable access to your services? What if your services could be delivered over a robust, scalable, transparent, low-latency infrastructure dedicated to capital market participants that could manage market spikes and expanding data volumes?
The Colt PrizmNet financial extranet connects exchanges and other providers of financial content – including market data, research and other services – to an ecosystem consisting of over 15,000 participants worldwide. It is based on a private network owned by Colt with deterministic low latency, guaranteeing a reliable, consistent, and transparent content delivery to firms worldwide.
The financial extranet has been designed in consultation with a range of investment banks, assets managers, brokers and other financial services providers, enabling you to reach a growing community of capital markets firms that wish to take advantage of new services and content to support their trading strategies.
The Colt PrizmNet community
Colt has been serving the financial services sector for over 30 years. Today, Colt’s Capital Markets solutions cover over 180 exchanges and liquidity venues globally. With a well-established presence in Europe, Asia and North America, Colt enables a trusted community of 15,000+ financial sector firms worldwide.
Our solutions are designed to reduce risk and complexity and accelerate your time to market with rapid implementation, end-to-end SLAs, flexible contracts and service-based pricing.
The Colt PrizmNet financial extranet, leverages our award winning and highly secure and resilient global network. That means your content and services are delivered over a highly reliable and scalable network with guaranteed low and deterministic latency to firms worldwide.
With global economic trends continuing to shift, Colt’s strong foothold in the financial sector ensures we’re already embedded in the markets that matter – giving you faster , more seamless access when agility is essential.
Colt at a glance
- Global reach and network connections into 230+ cities
- 24k+ buildings directly connected
- 20k+ customers in 40 countries
- 30+ carrier neutral Colt data centres
- 560+ connected 3rd party data centres
- 90+ market data feeds
- Direct market access to 50+ cross asset class venues
- Exchange colocation at 30+ venues globally
The Colt PrizmNet solution
Self-service portal
- The portal enhances client experience by allowing you to manage technical configuration data and workflows for connection approval. It also gives potential customers of your services the ability to browse, get quotes and order new services online.
Advanced network reporting
- The Colt PrizmNet portal also offers near real-time network performance reporting of all services and highly granular reporting intro traffic flows.
Superior business focused SLAs
- The financial extranet is supported by Colt’s highly reliable and secure network, meaning we have full control over its delivery. That translates into superior service and delivery SLAs, covering availability, performance, delivery and response times. Moreover, our highly responsive capital markets support desk enables a seamless onboarding and servicing experience.
Reliable and deterministic latency
- The private, dedicated infrastructure provides a secure communications platform with guaranteed deterministic low latencies. The engineering, traffic routing and network servicing have been designed to meet the requirements of capital markets firms.
Key Benefits
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Global reach
rapid access to an ever-growing community of 15k+ capital markets participants
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Guaranteed deterministic latencies
Guaranteed deterministic latencies for the delivery of content and services
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Self-service portal
Self-service portal for easy access to the capital markets ecosystem
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Superior SLA´s
Superior SLAs and near real time network performance monitoring
About Colt Capital Markets
Colt delivers highly secure, on-demand services that are designed to meet the stringent requirements and speed of the financial markets.
Our Capital Markets offering brings together a specialised team of experts and the ownership and control of the underlying infrastructure – from the fibre in the ground to the overlaying infrastructure.
More than 400 Capital Markets firms worldwide rely on Colt to help them maintain and grow their market share.
Our history in serving the needs of Capital Markets firms started in the City of London over 25+ years ago and expanded into the key financial hubs in Europe, Asia and North America. Following the acquisition and integration of MarketPrizm in 2011 and KVH in 2014, Colt has the service portfolio and reach to support Capital Markets firms on a global scale.
