NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Equinix to speak and exhibit at Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference 2009 in Hong Kong
November 3-4 2009, booth 9, JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong
Hong Kong. – November 2, 2009 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that it will be speaking and exhibiting at the Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference (APFIC) 2009 in Hong Kong. Taking place between November 3- 4 2009 at the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, the two-day conference provides the largest platform in Asia Pacific for senior market data and reference data professionals from leading financial institutions in the region to gather and discuss about key challenges facing the industry.
The rapidly evolving market landscape of Asia Pacific is driving financial participants’ growing demand for improved data availability and accessibility. Coupled with the industry trend of globalization and fragmentation, financial community participants with next generation trading requirements are increasingly looking to advance forward with a global and flexible trading infrastructure capable of supporting rich data feeds with low latency across the globe.
Equinix Financial eXchange provides proximity solutions to the world’s top ten financial centers. Offering ultra-low latency connections directly to exchanges, trading partners, market data sources and matching engines around the world, Equinix Financial eXchange is a leading high-performance, global financial services hub where the financial community can directly interconnect with access to the broadest choice of connectivity options inside any one of our 45 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers around the globe.
David Wilkinson, Equinix’s Senior Director of Business Development for Asia Pacific will be speaking as a panelist on both days of the conference, namely the panel discussion on “Alternative Markets: Choice, Diversity, and Fragmentation” on November 3rd at 4:15pm and the panel discussion on “The Data Demand of Advanced Trading Strategies” on November 4th at 11:00am. Equinix Asia Pacific representatives will also be at booth 9 during the exhibition to discuss how Equinix Financial eXchange is empowering customers in the region to realize and exceed their trading strategies.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and more than 350 network service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 45 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
The Equinix Financial eXchange is a neutral marketplace consisting of financial markets participants including execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology providers and financial networks; that locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centers in order to support highly reliable, low latency connectivity for a broad range of market participants. Learn more at: www.financial.equinix.com
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