REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and
TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Canadian
Securities Exchange (CSE) and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the
global interconnection and data center company, today announced
that the CSE has selected Equinix as its primary data center
provider. The CSE will be offering its new matching
engine, data feed services, risk management, compliance, smart
router and order protection services at TR2, Equinix's recently
opened Toronto International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center,
as well as Equinix's existing TR1 facility.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Strategically located in downtown Toronto, Equinix's Toronto data center campus
offers the CSE the opportunity to directly connect to the
Canadian trading community. TR2 is a state-of-the-art data center
that is part of the Equinix Toronto campus. It is
approximately 2.5 Km west of TR1 and can be accessed via an Equinix
IBX cross-connect from both TR1 and TR2.
- The CSE is home to more than 300 uniquely listed issuer
companies, and also offers continuous auction market serivces for
equities listed on other Canadian exchanges. As part of its
technology transformation, the CSE will migrate its primary
matching engine to Equinix TR1 IBX in Q4 2016. It is expected that
the Equinix TR2 IBX facility will become the primary data center
for the CSE in Q2 2017.
- Equinix is home to the largest collection of trading platforms,
top market data vendors, a myriad of service providers, and
hundreds of buy-side and sell-side firms. Together, Equinix
customers form a broad-based electronic marketplace of financial
technology services that give customers the ability to connect –
and adapt – like never before. The expansion by the CSE further
enhances Equinix's global electronic trading ecosystem, providing
the interconnection options that companies need to meet business
demands.
- Located at the Equinix campus in downtown Toronto, Canada, TR2 serves the financial,
cloud, telecom and corporate enterprise communities. The new
facility offers premium colocation services and is designed to meet
enterprises' need for larger footprints and data-intensive
applications deployed closer to the edge.
Quotes
- Richard Carleton, CEO of
the Canadian Securities Exchange said:
"We are delighted to be joining with leading members of the
Canadian trading community and their supporting infrastructure
providers at the Equinix campus in Toronto. Locating our new
suite of trading services at Equinix will enable the CSE to
accelerate the timetable for delivering the benefits to all of our
partners."
- John Knuff, vice president, Equinix:
"We continue to see strong momentum with the global Equities
market, as these businesses are realizing how a global data center
platform can accelerate their business performance. The CSE is a
locally recognized brand and adds to the strength of our financial
services offering."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Expands in Toronto to Serve Growing Demand for
Interconnection [Press release]
- Equinix Sees Uptick in Globally Deployed Financial Services
Customers Spanning Multiple Asset Classes [press release]
- Equinix Sees Continued Interest in Secaucus Data Centers
[blog]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most interconnected data centers. In 40 markets
across five continents, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. www.equinix.com.
About the Canadian Securities Exchange:
The Canadian
Securities Exchange is home to more than 300 uniquely listed issues
covering a broad range of industry sectors. The exchange provides
trade execution, smart routing, risk management, compliance and
market information services for Canadian listed instruments.
Recognized as an exchange by the Ontario Securities Commission in
2004, the CSE is designed to facilitate the capital formation
process for public companies through a streamlined approach to
company regulation that emphasizes disclosure and the provision of
efficient secondary market trading services for investors.
For more information, please visit www.thecse.com and our
blog at http://blog.thecse.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release
contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to,
the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers
and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services;
unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of
companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure
to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out
or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing
arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from
existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient
cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key
customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular,
see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available
upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation
to update the forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix,
Inc.
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SOURCE Equinix, Inc.