The ICE Global Network has been expanded in the Asia Pacific area, with additional access centres in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo, according to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a top global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure. With this, ICE's network and managed services offerings are on par with those of other major financial hubs in the U.S. and Europe. This comes after a large investment in the area.
Although there are opportunities for many businesses in Asia, there hasn't been a single point of contact for the region to access international markets and essential hosting services, according to Amanda Hindlian, President of Fixed Income and Data Services at ICE. We are dedicated to providing a consistent service globally, offering ultra-low-latency and high resiliency to the market, which helps our customers manage risks and find opportunities in the most effective ways possible, as we look across all of the solutions that we provide.
ICE has improved its connectivity access centre solutions in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo after a large build-out in the area. These improvements include ultra-low latency access to regional and global markets using ICE's ultra-low latency backbone, as well as access to local markets like the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE), Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), and Japan Exchange Group (JPX). The industry-best customer service offered by ICE will support each of these new locations.
The ICE Global Network, which has hubs all over the world, provides high-quality content, delivery, and execution services across extremely secure, extremely robust fibre and wireless networks. Through a single ICE Global Network solution, its hosted and managed services offer customers end-to-end hosting, hardware procurement, maintenance, and support, while cloud capabilities offer new, flexible ways to access data across the area.
"ICE has extensive experience providing high performance market connectivity and the highest level of customer service," said Magnus Cattan, Head of ICE Fixed Income and Data Services in APAC. "ICE is both a global network provider and an operator of 13 global equity, futures, and options exchanges." We're overjoyed to be able to offer customers a single solution that enables them to connect to markets, data, and analytics through a single point of connectivity with extremely low latency.
The ICE Global Network is a component of ICE's data services offering, which provides connectivity with a variety of proprietary data tools for global markets across fixed income, equities, commodities, FX, and options. It also offers end-to-end solutions for information, analytics, index services, and information.