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Enabling High-Performance Trading and Productive Collaboration

The Cisco High-Performance Trading (HPT) solution portfolio helps you meet ever-changing market demands and establish competitive advantage.

This portfolio is based on an architecture that delivers ultra low-latent speed and reliability under actual automated trading conditions. It improves the productivity and effectiveness of portfolio managers and traders.

Cisco partners with leading industry providers to help firms evolve to next-generation trading capabilities, including:

Providing best execution, with performance without loss during intense market volatility
Improving human trader collaboration and responsiveness
Supporting full-cycle visibility and micro-level measurement of latency

High-Performance Trading Architecture Poster
A graphical overview of the High-Performance Trading Fabric.
» Download Poster (PDF - 2.1 MB)

Connecting the Dots: Managing Complexity in Today's Rapidly Evolving Global Financial Markets

Learn how firms are addressing the challenges of their IT architectures in order to support complex trading models. Join us for an interactive webcast with Bloomberg, Equinix and Cisco.
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High Performance Trading Solutions for Financial Services

Algo Speed High Frequency Trading Solution
Automated trading tools help you communicate faster and handle high volumes of market data in a predictable and reliable manner.

Application Optimization
Improve efficiency and agility of back and middle-office computing resources and accelerate risk analytics.

Performance Management
Optimize performance with latency analytics at the microburst level across the entire trading cycle.

Power Trader
Next-generation trader tools enhance collaboration, support mobility, and improve customer experience.

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Connecting the Dots
(PDF - 245 KB)
Better collaboration among industry players will address customer needs.

Cisco IBSG Predicts Emergence of Global Connected Marketplaces
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How companies can use the cloud to adapt and thrive in a rapidly shifting financial marketplace.

Execution Time: The Ten Steps in a Trade
The media receives well the Cisco High Performance Trading poster. Source Media uses it as the source for the 10 Steps to Trading Nirvana.

Financial Services Firm Secures New Advantage
(PDF - 387 KB)
Winterflood Securities deploys industry's first Cisco Unified Computing System, improving business operations and agility.

Financial Markets Cloud Computing
The key design consideration of cloud computing is the abstraction of underlying applications, information, content, and resources. Read this white paper for a range of scenarios for applying cloud computing in financial services.