Infrastructure for fair, transparent market access

FairConnect provides infrastructure that enables trading venues to measure, manage, and demonstrate fairness in low‑latency co‑location environments. We deliver deterministic, topology‑aware monitoring and control that gives exchanges a clear, compliant and auditable view of physical market access conditions—trusted by latency‑sensitive market participants and regulators alike.

Built for venues where confidence, integrity, and oversight matter.

Challenges facing modern exchanges in colocation

Equidistant cable length alone is no longer sufficient to meet modern equality standards.

Electronic markets are faster, more competitive, and more scrutinized than ever. Nano-seconds matter. Pico-seconds matter.

  • Physical distance, fiber routing, and cross‑connect topology create unavoidable latency differences.

  • Latency‑sensitive participants expect fairness. They demand and deserve market access that is measured consistently and precisely.

  • Regulators increasingly expect evidence—not assurances—of fair, equal and non‑manipulated access. They expect policies and procedures backed by controls and measurements that transparently demonstrate oversight and auditability.

Many venues have responded with manual audits, performed periodically, which are costly, disruptive, and inherently retrospective.

FairConnect offers a repeatable, automated, trusted and scalable alternative.

The FairConnect Solution

FairConnect provides independent, deterministic measurement and control of physical market access latencies for exchanges and market operators offering colocation services.

This enables for exchange operators:

  • Continuous, high‑precision latency monitoring and equalization

    • objective comparison across participants and cross‑connects, and

    • ability to equalize to sub-nanosecond precision

  • Early detection of anomolous structural advantages and unintended drift between participants

  • Automated and scalable compliance support: reduced reliance on manual, retrospective audits with findings presented in a reproducible manner suitable for internal governance and external review.

  • Cost efficient campus equalization, eliminating the need for expensive fiber spools and ensuring any campus location is attractive to participants

Repeatability. Transparency. Auditability. Fairness. Trust.

Designed for all stakeholders

For Exchange Operators
Demonstrate fair access, support regulatory obligations, evidence compliance and reduce disputes around connectivity and latency—without changing your market model, network topology or participant rules.

For Latency‑Sensitive Market Participants
Gain confidence that access conditions are measured consistently, independently, and at the precision required for modern electronic trading. Trust that all participants are treated fairly and equally.

For Regulators & Oversight Bodies
Access evidence‑based views into market access that are precise, auditable, and independent of self‑reported data.

Latency Monitoring

We model physical connectivity paths and continuously monitor latency at single-nanosecond and sub‑nanosecond precision.

We detect anomolous changes in latency and fiber fidelity characteristics.

Latency Equalization

Where desired, venues may optionally apply latency equalization at sub-nanosecond level of precision, under their own governance and control.

Compliance and Audit Support

Historical audit logs of all latency measurements, and full traceability of configuration changes affecting monitoring or equalization in support of exchange rules, policies and procedures.