Log in to Colt Online Accessibility English Solutions Products Why Colt? Resources About us Contact us Connecting financial markets When every millisecond counts, we are a trusted partner to meet your most latency-sensitive requirements. Home ❯ Solutions ❯ Capital Markets A network with a difference Colt provides services and solutions along the trade life cycle. The Colt IQ Network for financial markets provides fast and secure connectivity between major financial trading centres and exchanges worldwide. Our network consists of over 50 unique low-latency routes, including our Ultra-low latency routes connecting Europe and Asia. We connect more than 50 financial exchanges on four continents, ensuring we reach everywhere you do business. Read more about how we keep our financial services customers connected. Our capital markets ecosystem Driven by technological innovation, complex market structures, and regulatory reforms, the financial markets are particularly demanding and challenging. Global competition, market fragmentation and the need to connect quickly to an increasing number of interdependent exchanges and liquidity pools have increased the costs and complexity of trading. Time-to-market, network performance and connectivity to a wider financial ecosystem across multiple asset-classes have become the main challenges for market participants. Colt and its financial ecosystem and partners are uniquely positioned to provide cost-effective solutions either as modular stand-alone services or as fully integrated end-to-end solutions. Solve your financial services connection needs Networking Colt strives to transform the way the world works through the power of connectivity. The Colt IQ Network connects 900+ data centres across Europe, Asia and North America's largest business hubs, with over 29,000 on net buildings and growing, and uses this high-density, high-bandwidth network to supply best in class connectivity to your business infrastructure. Dedicated Connectivity Ultra Low Latency Financial Extranet MiFID II Solutions Service provider directory ESMIG (T2-T2S consolidation) PrizmNet Portal Exchange hosting As an end-to-end solution provider, Colt offers all components for a smooth and fast deployment of vital trading infrastructure. Colt Exchange Colocation and Proximity Hosting services are offered at more than 30 key market venues and third-party proximity data centres in Europe, Asia and North America, across asset classes including equities, derivatives, commodities and FX. Managed Colocation & Hosting services Market Data Services Expertise We combine Colt's infrastructure assets with capital markets expertise to serve the needs of capital markets firms. We've been doing so for 27 years, starting in the City of London, and then expanding into key global financial hubs in Europe, Asia and North America. We have the service portfolio and reach to support capital markets firms on a global scale. We also have award winning customer service and an industry leading net promoter score. Our expertise We connect: 0+ Market data feeds 0+ Exchange colocation venues 0 European central banks 0+ Exchange venues The Colt IQ Network: A reliable, intelligent backbone Our connectivity solutions are based on our intelligent Colt IQ Network, providing you with the best network for the best experience. Get direct access to financial markets across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. Any transport type on an award-winning network: We provide Ethernet, MPLS, Internet, SD WAN, IP VPN and Wavelength connectivity solutions, and are recognised globally for the quality of our service. Guaranteed high-performance: We own every part of our own network, so we can ensure services maintain their quality globally with end-to-end SLAs. Competitive pricing & stronger security: Owning our network also means we can deliver competitive pricing across our services, while giving you more security, visibility & control over your service through to the last mile. Check your connectivity Speak to a network expert Our award-winning, capital markets solutions give you the ability to seamlessly interconnect your business, so you can become more responsive to new challenges and opportunities. Whatever your challenges or questions, let our experts guide you on your cloud connectivity journey. Speak with our specialists today, for guidance and consultation. For other ways to reach out, try our contact centre. Company Size 0-500 501-2000 2001-5000 5001-10,000 10,000+ I want to connect to... An ecosystem of exchanges or venues An ultra low latency route A colocation & hosting service A network of market data services By submitting this form you have read and agree to our Data privacy statement. Want to learn more? Case Study A Europe-wide SD WAN from Colt underpins the bank’s digital transformation programme. Read more... Case study A single connection to Colt PrizmNet gives a global asset management firm access to the global capital markets ecosystem. Read more... Blog How Colt used its European footprint to help our Capital Markets clients Read more... News Colt delivers best-in-market latencies on critical European PrizmNet routes and next-generation Arista 7130 ultra-low-latency switches. Learn more... Watch PrizmNet Online, our self-service portal, is your easy-to-use interface to Colt PrizmNet. Watch demo... 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