RSJ Invest Taps BT Radianz Proximity

RSJ's trading engines are hosted at the BT Radianz datacenter in London, giving RSJ critical access and minimum latency to London's financial markets, add officials.

Since the system was implemented over a month ago, the latency between its gateway and servers in the region has significantly been reduced, from between 150 and 200 milliseconds to 1 millisecond, says Karel Janeèek, member of the board of directors of RSJ.

Before migrating to BT Radianz, RSJ was using an Internet connection to reach the markets. The brokerage firm had gateways to the exchanges in London and the machines were in Prague sending orders, says Janeèek. RSJ had "a lot of connection problems" in the past, while now the trading is "much safer," he adds.

In the next two weeks, RSJ will start utilizing the same high-speed trading connection to the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), says Janeèek. "And in two or three months we plan to launch it at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)," he adds.

BT Radianz introduced its Proximity service in the Asian markets in the second half of 2006. In June, NeoNet, a Swedish agency brokerage that offers direct market access (DMA) to equity exchanges, announced it would use the service to provide clients new DMA links to North American and European execution venues (DWT, June 5, 2006).