GEC NEWS WIRELeading Abu Dhabi based brokerage and foreign exchange investment firm uses BT Radianz Services to offer access to the New York financial markets
BT is making it easier for institutions with a presence in North America to access foreign exchange, metals and commodities markets via the OREX trading platform of leading financial services company, ADS Securities.
As part of its international growth plans, ADS Securities will leverage a range of Radianz Services and BT’s global partnership agreement with Equinix to create a new trading hub in Equinix’s Secaucus (New York) data centre campus.
BT will host ADS Securities’ OREX trading system in the Equinix Secaucus campus. In addition to co-location services, BT will also provide hosted infrastructure such as high performance servers and switches, as well as managed connectivity to the platform on ADS Securities’ behalf.
Philippe Ghanem, Vice Chairman & CEO of ADS Securities, said: ““With its Cloud of Clouds vision, BT is helping us to make our OREX trading platform accessible to thousands of customers in the BT Radianz Cloud, link-up with third party data centres, and provide connectivity to investors via the internet and headquarters in the United Arab Emirates.”
Ashish Gupta, President, global banking & financial markets, BT Global Services said: “By working with BT, the trading firm can now extend its client base and increase liquidity by leveraging an existing community of customers, both within the Equinix data centre ecosystem and in the BT Radianz Cloud.”
