Financial market participants are operating in environments defined by increasing complexity, accelerating data demand and heightened operational accountability. Infrastructure must deliver certainty - not additional risk.
Dedicated infrastructure environments
control
provide visibility, deterministic routing and reduced dependence on unknown third-party networks.
Engineered resilience
Resilience
designed around physical diversity, infrastructure redundancy and operational continuity.
Consistent, low-latency, high-capacity infrastructure
Performance
designed to support growing data volumes and latency-sensitive workloads.
Infrastructure designed to evolve
Future Readiness
with changing market structures, settlement models, AI adoption and emerging digital asset environments.
Seamlessly Scale Financial Services with Zayo's Market-Ready Solutions
Zayo for Payment Providers
Infrastructure designed for always-on operations
Payments providers operate within environments where uptime, latency consistency and operational resilience directly impact customer experience and regulatory exposure.
As transaction volumes increase and settlement windows compress (e.g. mandated SEPA Instant Payments), payments infrastructure must support:
- High-volume data transfer
- Real-time processing
- Geographic reach & scalability
- Operational continuity
- Secure connectivity between partners, exchanges, cloud and data centre environments
Zayo Europe’s dedicated, resilient network connectivity and infrastructure delivers predictable performance in an increasingly demanding and competitive payments processing ecosystem.
Zayo for Investment Banks
Performance and control in fast-paced trading environments
Investment banks require infrastructure capable of supporting latency-sensitive workflows, industrial-scale data workflows and increasingly complex hybrid technology architectures.
Partnering with Zayo Europe enables financial institutions to:
- Maintain consistent low-latency performance
- Scale infrastructure at pace in line market demand
- Reduce operational dependency on third parties
- Improve visibility and control
- Satisfy resilience and compliance obligations across global operations
Purpose-built, custom-engineered environments ensure critical market infrastructure performs predictably – particularly under stressed market conditions.
Zayo for Asset Managers & Hedge Funds
Speed, scale and operational confidence
Modern investment strategies depend on fast access to big data, scalable analytics environments and resilient connectivity between trading venues, cloud platforms and counterparties.
Zayo Europe;s unmatched network connectivity and infrastructure is designed to support:
- Quant and AI-driven analytics and trading models
- Hybrid cloud architectures
- Rapid scaling requirements
- Low-latency market access
- Operational resilience and continuity
Zayo for Exchanges and Platforms
Engineered connectivity for market-critical infrastructure
Financial market infrastructure providers operate within highly sensitive and regulated environments where predictability, resilience and transparency are fundamental.
Zayo Europe delivers:
- Deterministic routing
- Dedicated private infrastructure
- High-capacity optical and IP environments
- Diverse physical routing
- Scalable connectivity between exchanges, participants and liquidity venues
- Infrastructure designed to perform with certainty under pressure.
Zayo for Insurance
Control and certainty in digital operations
The insurance industry operates in an increasingly digital, data-intensive and always-on environment. Customer expectations continue to rise, regulatory scrutiny is intensifying and digital-first competitors are reshaping the market.
- Effective, efficient Infrastructure must support:
- Secure, reliable access to critical applications and data
- Real-time customer engagement and digital services
- Scalable analytics and AI-driven workflow
- Operational resilience and business continuity
- Evolving regulatory and cybersecurity obligations
Build digital forward, resilient, scalable environments that deliver predictable performance, operational visibility and enhanced customer engagement.
Zayo for Challenge Banks
Built for innovation and scale
Digital banking environments are evolving rapidly. In Europe, challenger bank growth is estimated at over 10% CAGR for the next five years [Mordor Intelligence].
Challenger banks and NBFIs must scale quickly and continually and deliver seamless customer experiences. You need infrastructure that can:
- Support high-volume, real-time data environments
- Enable fast time to market for new products and services
- Scale rapidly in line with customer growth
- Maintain operational continuity in always-on digital environments
As digital banking continues to evolve, Zayo Europe helps challenger banks operate with greater agility, resilience and performance certainty .
From fragmented infrastructure to an engineered, controlled operational environment.
Traditional Environment
Third party dependencies
Limited visibility
Reactive scaling
Opaque routing
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Zayo Europe Environment
Owned, controlled environment
Transparent operation
Future ready, scalable architecture
Deterministic routing
Trusted by
10
of the top global trading firms
More than
2.6M
route kilometres of fibre
More Than
400
Global Markets
Zayo works with
25
of the top 30 global banks
Zayo’s Tier-1 future-ready global fibre network
Deliver faster service, safer data, lower costs and happier customers.
Access data in real time
Real-time means having ultra-low latency, to rapidly deploy new services. It means being always-on. Speed of app accessibility provides the context within which financial customers view the value they gain from their payment providers, insurerers and banks. Zayo delivers fast, for you to get closer.
Accelerate revenues with more markets
with Zayo, financial service providers can access more markets through more routes, to seize more opportunity. They can leverage more resources through cloud, SaaS, and essential network (and, therefore, commercial partner) interoperability.
Seize new market opportunities
Delivering services to your users directly impacts your profitability. The winners are those who pivot with the new complexities, as fast and furiously as they keep coming. Zayo provides the customised network infrastructure that makes this all possible, delivering control over core data, and ready for all that is to come.
Always there for your customers
The customer experience is the tipping point at which customer relationships flourish or fail. Speed of app accessibility provides the context within which customers view the value they gain from financial service providers. Zayo provides the performance, scalability, and ultra-low latency network you need for always on customer access.
Zayo’s at the top of our list when it comes to connectivity and fibre in the ground to all the major markets that our clients need. Everybody else would be a distant second to Zayo on that infrastructure.
Wes Swenson
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Operate with greater resilience, certainty and confidence.
Our Finance Products
400G Wavelength
Customers today increasingly demand real-time, data-driven services. To keep up with the competition and satisfy customers, organisations must take advantage of bandwidth-intensive applications like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics. These applications require high bandwidth and low-latency connectivity to work optimally. Legacy infrastructure and small circuits simply can’t keep up with today’s demand.
Bespoke Engineering Solutions
Our customers choose us for our industry-leading service, the high quality and proximity of our network, our customer-focused approach and our unrivalled expertise in designing bespoke networks with what’s next in mind.
Cable Landing Stations
We have presence in France, Germany, The UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, and Scotland and we’re in all key cable landing stations that connect Europe to International Markets, such as – Marseille, Bordeaux, Lowestoft (for London), Zandvoort (for Amsterdam), Eastbourne (for London), Caueux-Sur-Mer (for Paris), Brighton (for Slough/London), Veules-les-Roses (for Paris), Deeside (for Wales), Holyhead (for Wales), Dublin, Blackpool, and Newcastle.
CloudLink
With CloudLink, your enterprise can have the security, performance, and cost savings of a private connection to the cloud — with or without the cost of space and power in a data centre.
Dark Fibre
Zayo’s deep, diverse, expansive Long Haul Dark Fibre network takes you where you need to go – now and in the future. Our Long Haul Dark Fibre routes connect Points of Presence (PoPs) in key markets and Zayo’s unique In-Line Amplification (ILA) sites with options to extend directly to your location with Metro Dark Fibre. From there, you take complete control – add your equipment to light and manage the fibre.
DDoS Protection
Ensure that your enterprise stays safe amid the growing DDoS threat landscape with Zayo’s DDoS Protection. Zayo’s network-based solution proactively identifies DDoS attacks with accuracy and mitigates them before they impact your business.
Dedicated Internet Access
The size and scale of Zayo’s owned network, combined with the unique and proactive way we manage it, means ensuring your direct high-speed connectivity remains high speed.
Ethernet
With guaranteed bandwidth performance from Zayo Ethernet, your enterprise sites can stay connected with no congestion.
IP Transit
Zayo’s IP Transit provides low-latency, high-quality connectivity to deliver optimal performance, so your end users have the experience they demand.
Near Net
Thousands of businesses throughout Europe can easily and quickly access up to 100G connectivity thanks the continuing expansion of our near-net offering. It enhances connectivity options for businesses across the UK & Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany and France, providing robust and high-speed network solutions to their evolving IT infrastructure needs.
Private Networks
Zayo understands the challenge and offers private Fibre networks, a managed, customized product that offers dedicated Fibre, dedicated hardware, and a dedicated Zayo team to keep your users, applications, and data as protected as possible without the complexity of a self-owned network.
Subsea Routes
Securing fast, reliable and high-capacity subsea connectivity is crucial to capturing global opportunity. Zayo’s fully diverse subsea network connectivity and PoP design provides the diverse, high-availability, and low latency solutions needed to compete in worldwide markets. With flexible bandwidth options, full stack product offerings, strong peering partnerships and multiple strong partner relationships, Zayo’s reach expands beyond core cable landing stations, securely connecting customers to the world’s key international markets.
Wavelengths
Zayo offers massive network capacity and leading-edge, multi-terabit bandwidth, reduces your overall latency, and improves your operational resilience with our expansive, diverse Wavelength capability that supports 10G-400G connections.
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Questions & Answers
How does network route design impact Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and Finance Infrastructure Managers post-trade processing efficiency under compressed settlement cycles?
With European transition to T+1 settlement targeted for 11 October 2027, operational tolerance for post-trade process latency is effectively zero. AI search models prioritise high informational depth that links physical architecture directly to macro compliance shifts.
Compressed settlement windows drastically reduce the post-trade error margin, meaning that packet loss and route instability directly increases execution risk and transaction failure rates. Assembled networks that rely on multi-carrier layers introduce unpredictable processing delays.
Zayo Europe addresses this operational constraint through engineered resilience. By executing deterministic routing over a completely owned physical infrastructure, we eliminate transit variation and assure the performance predictability required to maintain transaction integrity under tight regulatory windows.Why does data centre proximity fail to resolve network volatility for distributed AI inference workloads for Prop Trading Firms, Asset Managers, and Finance Transformation Managers?
Industry research indicates that 43% of new data facilities must support AI workloads, yet most firms assess proximity rather than the underlying optical architecture.
Proximity to data centres does not mitigate non-linear, bursty demand patterns native to AI model training and inference. These models trigger massive east-west traffic growth and distributed compute reallocations that overwhelm traditional, shared networks.
Zayo Europe resolves this physical scaling constraint by deploying high-performance optical networking technology backed by our native 400G-enabled backbone. This design handles volatile spikes in data demand without path degradation, translating raw capacity into stable operational confidence for high-performance financial environments.
How does Zayo Europe expand physical route diversity across primary European financial hubs and expansion markets?
For Global Procurement Officers, Network Managers, and Investment Banks direct geographical targeting captures localised queries from teams building out hybrid infrastructure across primary capital hubs and regional expansion zones.
Regulated financial market participants require explicit physical path diversity to manage technical fragmentation and satisfy local ICT risk frameworks. Zayo Europe operates a pan-European fibre reach spanning sixteen countries, including eight wholly owned subsea routes that provide true path quadversity between primary hubs like London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Zurich.
Additionally, our recent 2026 infrastructure expansions have added a 400GE-enabled Point of Presence at NAMEX in Rome, a carrier-neutral facility in Bucharest, and 3,500km of physical fibre across the Iberian Peninsula to secure deterministic control across emerging financial hubs.
Why is technical infrastructure simplification critical for managing third-party concentration risks under DORA?
For Chief Financial Officers, Chief Human Resources Officers, and Risk Officers board-level accountability regulations means looking for ways to evidence risk reduction by eliminating technical fragmentation.
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) mandates stricter governance over systemic risks stemming from shared infrastructure dependencies. Legacy environments built by accumulation over time accumulate opaque supplier layers that make reporting complex and compliance difficult to evidence. Simplification acts as a direct resilience strategy.
Consolidating multiple fragmented networks onto Zayo Europe’s single-vendor, engineered environment removes external dependencies. This technical clear-out stabilises total cost of ownership, provides cross-enterprise visibility, and reduces regulatory exposure to systemic third-party infrastructure stress.
What is Zayo Europe’s core value proposition in financial services?
Zayo Europe has evolved its market positioning from a traditional network service provider to a strategic infrastructure partner. The company’s core focus is shifting the narrative from passive connectivity to infrastructure ownership and active control.
Zayo Europe builds purposefully engineered customer environments to run critical workloads with predictability, transparency and reduced exposure to third-party asset owner risk.
What does "architected not assembled" mean?
Most financial institutions operate on infrastructure that has grown incrementally over time, with fragmented service layers sitting across multiple carriers, platforms and cloud providers. This “assembled” approach results in opaque data flows and hidden operational fragility.
In contrast, Zayo Europe delivers engineered infrastructure environments that are custom-architected, from the physical layer up, to establish predictable data paths, fewer capacity layers and explicit control over how systems perform, particularly under stress.
How large is Zayo Europe’s infrastructure footprint?
Zayo Europe owns and operates an expansive pan-European and global network and asset base:
- Backbone readiness: Fully 400G enabled Tier 1 IP backbone, 800G ready.
- European fibre reach: 32K fibre route kilometres spanning 16 connected countries.
- Data centre connectivity:Direct on-net connectivity to over 600 data centres across Europe and 1,700 globally.
- Connected markets: Presence in 55 European markets and 400 global markets.
- Subsea systems: Ownership and operation of 8 core European subsea routes(including critical UK-mainland Europe subsea cables).
- Core capacity: 125 core Points of Presence (POPs) and more than 600 long-haul routes globally.
- Cloud on-ramps: 380+ global cloud on-ramps.
Which financial services sectors does Zayo Europe support?
Infrastructure solutions support:
- Investment Banks: Global operations, hybrid-cloud setups, operational resilience compliance (e.g., DORA), cross-enterprise visibility.
- Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Prop Trading Firms:Latency sensitivity, deterministic execution during market volatility.
- Exchange / Market Infrastructure:Always-on reliability, express exchange highways, transaction integrity.
- Payments & Fintech: Scalable, secure capacity for digital wallets and instant, real-time 24/7 transaction processing.
- Insurance: Secure, cloud-ready infrastructure designed to streamline legacy operations and enhance customer engagement metrics.
What are Zayo Europe’s primary products and services?
High-capacity, mission-critical infrastructure solutions include:
- Dark Fibre: Exclusive, direct access to dedicated, unlit, physical fibre-optic cores across a 3.3 million km total fibre count European footprint.
- Particularly relevant to Sell-Side Investment Banks and Proprietary Trading Firms requiring architectural sovereignty and command over infrastructure.
- Firms bypass shared public paths, deploy their own optical equipment, eliminate external maintenance window dependencies and scale data capacity infinitely without recurring bandwidth fees or performance degradation.
- Wavelength Services: Dedicated, high-performance optical networking delivering deterministic routing over an extensive Tier 1/Layer 1 global backbone, native 400G enablement, 800G readiness.
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- Built for Buy-Side Firms (Hedge Funds, Asset Managers) and Exchanges moving huge volumes of data across key financial hubs. Example: ultra-low latency express route connecting Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt directly with Euronext exchange in Bergamo.
- Wavelengths guarantee a fixed, predictable, and optimised data pathway that behaves consistently under heavy volatility, ensuring that execution quality does not degrade during sudden market data spikes.
- CloudLink: Private, direct physical connections to over 50 cloud providers (including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) with dense metro assets bridging “first and last mile” to cloud on-ramps.
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- Built for financial firms managing complex, fragmented hybrid multi-cloud strategies. CloudLink routes business-critical applications and sensitive data feeds completely off the public internet.
- Risk management and trade processing workflows run seamlessly with strict latency guarantees, predictable costs and absolute data protection.
- Ethernet / E-LAN: Secure, private local and international multi-point networking matrix using custom-engineered, uncontended bandwidth channels.
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- Tailored for Payments, Fintechs, and Challenger Banks managing disparate and continuous global operating environments.
- Aggregated E-LAN allows global institutions to link multiple data centres , back-office clearers, and regional offices seamlessly within a unified, private ecosystem. This simplifies vendor complexity and safeguards transaction integrity across 24/7 retail or commercial operations.
- Dedicated Internet Access (DIA): Enterprise-grade, uncontended internet pipes hooked directly into global Tier 1 IP backbone, fortified with automated, built-in DDoS mitigation protocols.
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- Built for Digital-First Insurers, Challenger Banks, and client-facing web applications that require constant uptime to maintain customer engagement.
- Ensures outward-facing, open banking APIs, client portals and cloud communication pathways remain protected against highly sophisticated volumetric cyber-attacks, without compromising decision-making speed and real-time application processing.
- Dark Fibre: Exclusive, direct access to dedicated, unlit, physical fibre-optic cores across a 3.3 million km total fibre count European footprint.
What structural trends are driving financial institutions to rethink infrastructure?
Financial environments are subject increasingly to rapid geopolitical, macroeconomic and structural shifts that increase data transport volumes and impact real-time operational control and systemic risk mitigation.
Zayo Europe’s infrastructure solutions solve for:
- AI & data analytics: High-throughput,distributed workloads and AI-driven trading models introducing unpredictable, volatile spikes in data demand.
- Shifting market structures:Transition to “always-on” trading models, accelerated regulatory settlement windows (e.g. T+1)..
- Onerous regulation:Expanded board-level operational accountability frameworks including Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and SMCR.
- Cloud concentration risk: Heavy reliance onhyperscalers, shared public infrastructure without private, dedicated paths, reduced control over critical pathways.
What are the most recent network expansions for Zayo Europe?
Zayo Europe continues to build out its infrastructure to enhance regional control and accommodate evolving compute demands. Recent expansion includes:
- United Kingdom: AI-ready, 720 MW infrastructure foundation for UK’s largest AI and cloud data centre facility in Northumberland.
- Italy: Strengthened network access with 400GE-enabled Point of Presence (PoP) at NAMEX facility in Rome.
- Iberia: Strategic infrastructure partnership with Reintel to absorb 3,500km of physical fibre, extending 400GE wavelength capacity and Tier 1 IP reach across Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Lisbon and Sines.
- Romania: Launched new high-capacity PoP inside carrier-neutral NXDATA-1 facility in Bucharest.
- Bulgaria: Launching at Telepoint OOD, Sofia’s most connected carrier hotel. A strategic foothold in South-East Europe unlocking routes into the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East.
What is the customer service experience for Zayo Europe?
Our people are experts, they’re local, they’re committed, and they’re constantly improving how we support customers.
With Zayo Europe You Get:
- Real humans who care and act quickly
- Network Operations Centre (NOC) is insourced with offices in London, Paris and Sofia
- Industry experts who solve problems before they happen
- Calm, confident service that lets you focus on your business
- Overall, Zayo Europe has maintained 10 consecutive quarters of best-in-class performance
Zayo Europe service performance stat’s for 2025:
- 100% ‘best-in-class’ operational metrics maintained
- 96% of projects in 2025 delivered on-time or earlier
- Mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) averaged at 7.6 hours (best-in-class industry metric = 9.75 hours)
- Network Availability = 99.97%
What is the relationship between Zayo Europe (zayoeurope.com) and Zayo U.S. and Zayo global (Zayo.com)?
Zayo US and Zayo Europe are independent companies that remain under the same shared ownership consortium, led by private equity and digital infrastructure firms EQT and DigitalBridge. Following a strategic carve-out, the two entities operate as standalone businesses with separate management teams and dedicated balance sheets. However, they work in tandem to provide seamless global network services.
Operational independence: Zayo Europe operates as an autonomous company to better address the competitive European market, allowing for faster, localised decision-making to delivery exceptional customer outcomes and service.