MarketFactory Nexus Low-latency global infrastructure and financial cloud services for FX trading

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Instant easy access to foreign exchange trading venues

MarketFactory Nexus provides easy and seamless data center financial cloud services for worldwide foreign exchange trading. All you need to bring is your trading model. MarketFactory can manage the rest.

From direct cross-connects to market data and trading venues to high-speed lines between data centers, MarketFactory gives you near instant access to our global network.

Fully managed cloud financial services

Our top of the line servers can serve both CPU intensive and light-weight applications. With our fully managed services, our trading operations team handles all the monitoring and configuration of hosted services.

  • Cross-connects to all major ECNs and liquidity providers

  • Low-latency point-to-point lines to all primary FX data centers

  • Co-located in NY4, LD4, TY3, SG1, and Aurora (CME)

  • High-speed circuits

  • Hosting options

  • Fully managed services

Low-latency global infrastructure

Customers can leverage MarketFactory’s global footprint for instant access to venues.

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Key features

  • High-speed access to liquidity

    • Cross-connects to all major ECNs and liquidity providers in all primary FX data centers.

    • Co-located in NY4, LD4, TY3, SG1, and Aurora (CME).

    • Use existing shared cross-connects for fast onboarding, or request dedicated, exclusive cross-connects as needed.

    • Low-latency dedicated point-to-point lines between all primary FX data centers.

    • 1–10 G single mode fiber for optimal performance.

    • Monitoring of customer bandwidth utilization.

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  • Low latency

    • Low-latency dedicated point-to-point lines between all primary FX data centers.

    • High-speed circuits between data centers with redundancy on all paths.

    • Solarflare network cards, and Arista switches capable of bandwidth of1.28 terabits per second.

    • Instant provisioning of bandwidth, and monitoring of bandwidth and latency.

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  • Nexus hosting

    • Choose physical machines, virtual machines, or install your own hardware in our cage.

    • Physical machines: 24 cores, 64 GB RAM, Solarflare cards, up to 40-Gbps bandwidth.

    • Virtual machines: Up to 20 cores.

    • Hosted machines have PTP timing services, internet connectivity, and market data services.

    • Separate NAS storage 10–40 TB.

    • GPS Grandmaster in each location.

  • Nexus managed services

    • Expert support from our infrastructure team.

    • Custom hosting and networking configuration.

    • Data center smart-hands hours.

    • Monitoring of hosted servers.

    • Operating system upgrades.

    • Integration with support alerting.

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Latest Markets awards

FX Markets e-FX Awards 2022

Best connectivity, hosting, and co-location service

TradingTech Insight USA Awards 2022

Best Managed Services Solution for Trading

GW Platt FX Tech Awards 2022

Best API Trader

FX Week e-FX Awards 2019

Best Connectivity Provider of the Year

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