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Finance

Financial markets participants face increasing operational complexity driven by accelerating AI and analytics workloads, shorter settlement cycles, the shift to ‘always-on’ markets, hybrid infrastructure environments and evolving regulatory obligations (including cybersecurity and operational resilience).

Zayo Europe’s dedicated, specialist, engineered environments deliver control, resilience and predictable performance across critical financial market operations.

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

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  • 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

VS

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

CEO, Novva

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As operational, regulatory and market pressures intensify, infrastructure speed, performance and control become increasingly critical.
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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