Financial Services – Money matters

Finance industry network requirements are increasingly influenced by three factors:

A more robust regulatory environment - dictating how the organisation has to handle business continuity and disaster recovery; re-locating data centres to out of town locations for security reasons.
Different trading methods - where speed of execution and low latency / high frequency are widely adopted. Lowering latency has to be achieved across the board.
Technological change - to control cost and reduce power consumption. There is increasing adoption of cloud computing and virtualisation.

Be in control of your infrastructure

Banks require sufficient control of critical infrastructure to be able to respond to these factors and be ‘first to market’ with stakeholder reassurances, ensuring that rating values are maintained.

This, coupled with the fundamental security requirements associated with managing customer funds, means that financial institutions need to think long and hard about how to approach the provision of critical infrastructure to support these difficult issues. They need a network that gives them the ability to manage challenges in a manner that the traditional telco model cannot do.

Geo: a demonstrable solution for the financial sector

Many of our clients have implemented a Geo dedicated fibre solution to help them deal with these regulatory and competitive issues. By doing so, they extend the idea of the ‘private network’ – a concept that is already familiar territory for most financial institutions.

Diversity of networks is a key way for financial institutions to ensure maximum network resilience. Diversity in London – the world’s largest financial hub – is very difficult to achieve.

Geo achieves this diversity with its unique sewer network, located deep out of harm’s way. By owning a dedicated network solution from Geo, you are assured of the required uptime for your business and safe in the knowledge that your data travels safely underground through highly diverse routes. This way we shoulder your priority to ensure no loss of connectivity in the event of disaster.

With volumes of business critical data growing rapidly, financial institutions also need to be sure that their network is future-proofed to cope with future demand.

A dedicated fibre infrastructure from Geo will give you all the bandwidth needed for years to come, making upgrading the transmission technologies at either end of the connection the only matter to be resolved.

We have an experienced Financial Services team; talk to us and see why some of the sector’s largest names have put their trust in our solutions.