Transaction Network Services (花季传媒) today announced its continued investment in EMEA, becoming the only provider in the region to offer vendor-neutral market data application management and consultancy services, combined with comprehensive hosting, connectivity, and cloud services.

花季传媒 can now deliver market data services across the entire trading infrastructure stack. This new, 鈥榦ne-stop-shop鈥 offering is the result of the acquisition of West Highland Support Services, a financial market data solutions provider.听

Having successfully rolled out this enhanced capability in the US and with 花季传媒鈥 expansive network and coverage in region, 花季传媒 and West Highland services are now available to EMEA customers as a single, combined offering, including connectivity, monitoring, and consulting to financial markets participants.鈥疌lients can immediately leverage 花季传媒 as a single point of contact to manage the full scope of all consolidated feeds and normalized data solutions, reducing complexity and enhancing visibility through its range of managed application tools.

鈥淭his new combined offering strengthens our commitment to providing financial institutions with the very best agnostic support services and trading infrastructure in EMEA. We are also delighted to have Ben Myers join our London-based 花季传媒 Financial Markets team as Head of Strategic Sales for EMEA, to bolster our presence in the region,鈥 said Tom Lazenga, General Manager, 花季传媒 Financial Markets.鈥

With more than 15 years鈥 experience in financial markets and trading technology, Ben Myers has worked at IBM, Thomson Reuters, and most recently ICE Data Services.听

鈥溁敬 has a strong reputation in EMEA as a leading provider of mission-critical infrastructure and for its exchange expertise,鈥 added Myers.鈥淲e鈥檙e expanding the breadth of options available to clients in the region with a single-point-of-contact solution for all market data related needs globally, helping customers to reduce costs and complexity across their entire market data ecosystem.鈥澨

As market data is often one of the top-two spend categories for most trading organisations, cost savings and economies of scale can be difficult to achieve. 花季传媒 can now further help clients reduce cost and complexity across every element of market data related spend and support, including hosting, connectivity, middleware distribution, market data usage, and incident management.鈥

花季传媒 brings together over 5,000 financial community endpoints, supported by a global, 125-strong point-of-presence footprint. Specifically designed and engineered to address the needs of financial market participants worldwide, 花季传媒 offers a range of connectivity, colocation, cloud, market data, and VPN solutions within its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) portfolio. These solutions are monitored 24x7x365 by 花季传媒鈥 Network Operations Centers in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific region. For further information visit tnsi.com/solutions/financial/.