Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE), a global company providing data, technology and market infrastructure, recently announced that it will be expanding its data delivery services and capabilities in the Asia Pacific region with the launch of a multi-tenant and fully managed Datafeed access centre for Taiwan, which will be known as ICE Shared Farm. This type of new multi-tenant service claims to offer a particularly managed experience for the customers that will use ICE Inc’s hosted and managed environments.
The multi-tenant service is predicted to remove the need for dedicated market data infrastructure and equipment, and further allows customers to easily connect to receive low-latency, real-time market data, usually via cross-connects or locally leased lines, which can help reduce the connectivity costs significantly.
“Taiwan is a key market for ICE and this new zero-footprint Datafeed solution allows us to provide both lower latency and more efficient access to our customers in the region,” said Magnus Cattan, Head of ICE Fixed Income and Data Services in APAC. “Our global connectivity infrastructure, which includes ultra-low-latency wireless options in many areas, provides flexible options for customers in Asia. And when combined with our Consolidated Feed, we’re able to offer a robust suite of managed services alongside global data and analytics.”
ICE Shared Farm currently uses the ICE Consolidated Feed, which combines the cross-asset content from over 600 global references, including exchanges and over-the-counter platforms. Used by multiple banks, asset managers, hedge funds and ISVs, the Consolidated Feed can deliver a broad range of financial information across equities, derivatives, fixed income, foreign exchange, money markets, commodities, energy and ETFs. Data derived from these markets can be delivered in a variety of ways, including real-time or delayed, tick-by-tick or conflated, and conflation can be turned on and supervised at the application level and can be set as internalised, trade-safe or just-in-time conflated.
