Home Products About Contact News & Press About ACTIV ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc., was founded in 2002 by industry veterans with deep experience pioneering the design, development, and operations of cutting-edge market data solutions. Having led various successful commercial ventures and product initiatives, the team understands the challenges of the full range of real-time data requirements, from quote terminal displays to data feed products to the engineering hurdles from latency to capacity management. On founding, ACTIV’s primary mission was to bring modern computing technology to bear on an industry rapidly adopting to the technical demands of electronic trading. Fielding a service supported through a unique managed-services model, ACTIV delivered appropriate levels of content while offering complete deployment configuration flexibility for on-site and multi-site requirements typical of fragmented markets. Since inception, ACTIV’s commercial strategy has been to ensure the broadest business value to our customers by offering a complete set of market data products: end user displays, a consolidated feed, deployable direct feeds, and revolutionary Enterprise real time publishing technology. Matching these technical goals with a global content aggregation capability led to the company’s continual investment in data redistribution rights to offer complete vendor of record (“VOR”) capability to our clients. ACTIV is founded on the certainty that in this industry, competence in both data and technology are paramount to success. Operating within time critical workflows, ACTIV has also developed an intense focus on quality and reliability with a sustained investment in a dedicated, fully redundant network. With our own physical plant, ACTIV can offer an unmatched quality of service that only comes from end-to-end control of our sourcing and distribution network. Together with a disciplined development regime to safely manage change, emphasis on backward compatibility, and excellent global support team armed with powerful toolsets, our clients enjoy the best service the industry has to offer, with confidence appropriate investments in capacity, performance, and reliability are at the heart of our operating excellence. ACTIV excels at managing streaming data at a high uptime and with a competitive latency profile. Expansion of our geographic market coverage has always been a critical investment focus for ACTIV. Having had the newest ticker plant technology since 2002 has not made us complacent. With ActivOne, our next generation platform now allows us to support the high demand for an alternative data distribution and content contribution platform addressing the Enterprise requirements of managing both exchange data and OTC markets moving towards electronic trading. Clients are struggling with integrating real time price data with reference and corporate action. Users want their systems to enjoy vendor optionality as they acquire new fixed income and alternative data sets. Securities proliferation, market structure changes (quote size, decimalization, etc…), indexation, ETF proliferation, new electronic marketplaces, and general derivative growth are all demanding better market data technology to keep costs low and operations scalable into the future. At inception, ACTIV recognized the data deluge that has transformed the industry and is now preparing for the next sea change in underlying publishing and integration software to manage these next set of challenges to the industry’s data infrastructure. Come learn more about our decades-old innovation-driven strategy that runs scared of the major obstacles facing the industry- exponential message rate growth, unyielding latency demands, and unsustainable cost increases in licensing, processing, storage, and compute costs. Our employees are ever focused on how to collect, normalize, and distribute real time content sets for market operators who know these problems need expertise and commitment now and into the future. Management Steve McNeany CEO & Co-Founder Michael Dunne Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder Frank Piasecki President & Co-Founder Sujata Parekh Chief Financial Officer James Bomer Chief Operating Officer ACTIV History 2021 ACTIV becomes part of larger market data operations through investment by leading PE firm with strong portfolio companies adjacent to ACTIV’s focus on market data segment. Significant expansion in scale, operations, and product lines to help customers address the growing difficulty in acquiring and using content and technology to participate in the Global Capital Markets. 2019 ACTIV's signs the first client for the ACTIV One Platform (AOP). 2015 ACTIV invests in 40Gig SFTI connectivity to secure sufficient capacity for rapid growth in OPRA data feeds. · Deployment of 100Gig US Backbone for further capacity investment to ensure sufficient bandwidth. 2012 ACTIV clients gain local and regional direct low latency connectivity services via the expansion of ActivNet--the network now supported by 15 global data centers across North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. 2007 ACTIV opens dedicated offices in Tokyo and Singapore with a large Asian push. 2004 ACTIV launches its initial ticker plant for the high volume options marketplace. 2020 Opening of Brazil B3 Colo. 2017 ACTIV launches its next generation Platform, ACTIV One, with initial live deployments in New York and London.. 2014 Opened the ASX Colo Facility in Sydney. 2010 ACTIV leverages its global backbone with the release of ActivNet, and adds additional data centers in Toronto, Tokyo and New York. 2006 ACTIV opens additional data centers in Chicago and New York. The company maintains growth, crossing 100 customers. 2002 With 20+ years of experience in the market data industry, the founders establish ACTIV. ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. 158 West 27th Street, Fl 9 New York, NY 10001 Tel: +1 212-599-1600 Email: sales@activfinancial.com Privacy Policy ©2023 by ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc.