Colt Technology Services add Mainland China Exchanges to its Portfolio

By Joy Dumasia

Colt Technology Services announced the expansion of its portfolio of Market Data services to incorporate Mainland China. This new and unique proposition, available in Europe, North America and Asia make Colt the only comprehensive provider of market data coverage for stock, futures and commodity exchanges across the country.

Customers can access Market Data services, available directly from within Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s (HKEX) colocation facility, for the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX), and Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) will add Market Data Services for the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE), Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) and Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) will be added in Q3 2021.

Colt offers raw, and normalised feeds at consistently low latencies, even during periods of volatility. Colt provides a software-normalised format using a standard API that eliminates potential speed loss when normalising and distributing at the source. Customers can also monitor the bandwidth utilisation (at 1s, 10ms and 1ms granularity), message rates, dropped packets, and A/B Feed latency deltas (microseconds) of its raw and normalised market data feeds through Colt’s proprietary web portal.

Masato Hoshino, Head of Asia and Representative Director & President at Colt, said: “Colt’s stable, reliable and low latency connectivity has been trusted and certified by its financial customers for over 20 years. The ability to subscribe to these exchange data feeds in a secure, fast and reliable manner is critical to their trading needs. We will continue to expand our Market Data coverage and low latency network, and invest in our software development, to provide more agile, flexible and secure services to our customers.”

Recently, IBS Intelligence reported that Colt Technology Services, a provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, has announced it is certified for MEF 3.0 SD-WAN services. This confirms that Colt’s SD-WAN solution conforms to the MEF SD-WAN Service Attributes and Services (MEF 70) global standard.