Herndon, VA (PRWeb).  August 1, 2011 — CFN Services, Inc., the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, today announced Link Investimentos; one of the largest independent broker-dealers in Brazil to provide lowest latency market access to Brazil’s equities, commodities and futures exchange, has joined the Alpha Alliance™. The inclusion of Link into the Alpha Alliance allows trading firms globally to extend their current trading strategies to Brazil with guaranteed lowest latency access for today and the future.

“Partnering with CFN Services to provide a high performance market access solution for current and new trading members offers a distinct competitive advantage,” says Nilson Monteiro, head of High Volume DMA with Link Investimentos.  “CFN's Alpha Platform™ broadens our reach to the global traders who want to capture the unique trading opportunities in Brazil. The benefits that CFN's Alpha Platform and its world-class technology bring to our brokerage business are clear.”

“The Alpha Platform provides a turn-key trading solution to global financial institutions looking to enter the Brazilian market,” said Sebastian Yoon, CFN Services’ VP of Financial Services. “CFN is committed providing market leading managed trading infrastructure services in Brazil, and adding Link Investimentos to the Alpha Alliance further expands our full trading enablement support in Brazil.”

About Link Investimentos: 

Link Investimentos, founded in 1998, is the leader in exchange-traded and fixed-income commodities in Brazil. This innovative and dynamic financial institution includes Brokerage, Wealth Management, Commodities, and Research divisions, each focused on serving the needs of clients seeking sophisticated solutions and technology.

As a leader in the high-frequency trading market, Link’s High Volume DMA team focuses on developing solutions for quantitative institutional investors, recognized as the benchmark agency-only broker for HFTs in Brazil.  Link also offers Co-location and Proximity Co-location Services to deploy custom solutions for its clients.

About CFN Services in the Global Financial Markets

CFN Services is a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, providing solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. CFN Services operates the low-latency  Alpha Platform™, a high performance low latency global infrastructure that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets. CFN is the sponsor of the Alpha Alliance which is setting the standard for next generation infrastructure and providing leading edge trading solutions.

For more information http://www.cfnservices.com/Partner-Channel/alpha-alliance.html