Increasing range of Moscow options for TMX Atrium participants

LONDON, 21 October, 2013 – TMX AtriumÔ, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that the Moscow Exchange is now available on TMX Atrium’s connectivity fabric.

The addition of the Moscow Exchange’s data and trading capabilities forms an integral part of TMX Atrium’s expansion strategy throughout Central and Eastern Europe.  In August 2012, TMX Atrium announced ultra-low latency to the Moscow hub at M1 and on the 14^th January 2013, announced a diverse connectivity option from Frankfurt to Moscow.  Due to the increasing adoption of TMX Atrium’s connectivity paths into and out of Moscow, TMX Atrium completed the enhancement of their London to Moscow via Stockholm path.

TMX Atrium’s connectivity fabric enables Moscow data to be accessible from 30 POPs in 11 countries across their venue-neutral platform. TMX Atrium provides ultra-low latency to its clients through fast, high-capacity order entry paths between Moscow and London, as well as between Moscow and Frankfurt. TMX Atrium’s presence within key locations in London, Frankfurt and Moscow helps firms benefit from arbitrage opportunities amongst these markets and provides access to venues, brokers and clients actively connected to the Moscow market.  The Moscow Exchange joins over 30 other trading venues currently on-net with TMX Atrium.

Emmanuel Carjat, Managing Director, TMX Atrium said, “We are delighted to offer access to an increasingly important source of Russian market liquidity.  Appetite for access and operation within the Moscow markets is growing and we anticipate this trend will continue as the market develops and investors look to implement increasingly complex trading strategies. The Moscow Exchange offers opportunities for trading cash equities, Russian derivatives, Russian FX and Russian fixed income;  asset classes that are becoming increasingly important for the international trading community. ”  

Alexander Afanasiev, Chief Executive Officer, Moscow Exchange, added, “As we continue to build our Moscow Exchange, partnering with a provider such as TMX Atrium, specialists in the financial services vertical, is becoming an increasingly important requirement. TMX Atrium delivers further client choice for our community and pushes our data out to a significant number of end-points across the TMX Atrium connectivity fabric.  TMX Atrium’s reach within Europe, Central and Eastern Europe is impressive as is their coverage across North America.  We look forward to working with TMX Atrium and developing connectivity options into and out of our Exchange from other key trading locations.”

About TMX Atrium

TMX Atrium^TM provides smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community.

TMX Atrium is headquartered in Luxembourg with offices in London, New York, Chicago and Toronto with a global footprint that extends throughout Europe, USA and Canada and with a sole focus on serving the needs of the financial services community.

TMX Atrium operates as a venue neutral infrastructure provider, offering the capital markets community highly-scalable connectivity between multiple markets and multiple trading venues.

TMX Atrium’s simple approach to connectivity ensures that customers connect quickly and easily to their desired trading counter parties, brokers, venues and clearers.

Established in 2006, the company grew rapidly across Europe and North America.  In July 2011 TMX Atrium (formerly Atrium Network) was acquired by TMX Group.

For more information, please view TMX Atrium’s website at http://www.tmxatrium.com/

About Moscow Exchange

Moscow Exchange is the largest Russian exchange both in terms of turnover and the extensive client base. The main goal of the exchange is to provide Russian and foreign market participants and investors with a safe and effective access to the booming Russian market.

Moscow Exchange offers accessible technology, sound clearing and guarantee functions and flexible operational structures. All innovations and new technologies and services are aimed at bringing reliability and safety to the market which strives to achieve the status of an internationally competitive market through improved efficiency of the market infrastructure, product diversity and liquidity.

The Exchange provides a transparent process for determining fair market values of Russian assets. We offer a full range of competitive trading and post trading services. Moscow Exchange provides a wide range of opportunities to investors, professional institutions and their Russian and foreign clients for equities, bonds, currencies as well as derivatives trading. Moscow Exchange’s market data is accessible worldwide through a range of all major vendor distribution channels.