Media Timeline

March 6, 2018

McKay Brothers Receives Minority Investment from Jane Street Group

6 March, 2018 – OAKLAND, CA, GENEVA & PARIS — McKay Brothers, a market leader in low latency networks, today announces a minority investment from Jane Street Group, LLC that will support the continued growth of McKay’s successful private bandwidth and market data businesses.   Jane Street Group joins IMC, Tower Research Capital, Susquehanna International Group and XR Trading as minority investors in McKay. The companies’ founders continue to hold the controlling majority of McKay’s […]
November 30, 2017

Trading Infrastructure – The Trend Towards Outsourcing

Trading Infrastructure – The Trend Toward Outsourcing 29 November 2017: When it comes to technology solutions for trading infrastructure, the build-versus-buy debate is one that never seems to go away. In the past, it was fairly common practice for banks and electronic trading firms to want to build and to run everything themselves. But more recently, there seems to be a definite trend away from that philosophy and toward buying, or even outsourcing, critical infrastructure. […]
October 19, 2017

McKay Brothers Receives Additional Minority Investments

19 October 2017 – OAKLAND, CA, GENEVA & PARIS — McKay Brothers, a market leader in low latency networks, today announces agreements with Susquehanna International Group, LLP and XR Trading that will support the continued growth of McKay’s successful private bandwidth and market data businesses.   Under the terms of the agreements, McKay’s founders will continue to control the McKay companies, holding over 70% of the equity. Susquehanna and XR join IMC and Tower Research […]
September 25, 2017

McKay Brothers to Connect London with Milan and Zurich at Lowest Known Latency

Microwave network provider expands European services September 25, 2017 / Milan, Italy and Zurich, Switzerland / McKay Brothers International (MBI) will connect UK data centers Slough-LD4 and Basildon with trading hubs in Milan and Zurich at lowest known latencies.  The company expects its new private bandwidth service between the UK and Milan’s I.Net data center to go live in mid-October. The private bandwidth service between the UK and Zurich is expected to be live in […]
September 8, 2017

Key Metals Futures Added to McKay Brothers’ Quincy Extreme Data Service

Select UK-sourced metals futures at the lowest known latencies   September 8, 2017 / London, UK & Geneva, Switzerland / McKay Brothers International has added select futures from the London Metal Exchange to its industry-leading Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. QED now offers select LME instruments at the lowest known latency at Slough-LD4 and Basildon in the UK, as well as at Frankfurt-FR2, Marseille-MRS1 and Madrid-BME. The LME data distributed at those POPs are 3-month […]
September 5, 2017

For trading infrastructure, the buy-build question increasingly favours buy

In this article, Mike O’Hara and Adam Cox of The Realization Group look at the trend of financial firms – on both the sell side and the buy side – outsourcing their trading infrastructure to specialist providers at co-located data centres. The prospect of outsourcing such a vital part of a trading firm’s operations has enormous implications, from cost to performance to business models. Mike and Adam hear from Stéphane Tyč, Co-founder of McKay Brothers, Ken Barnes, […]
May 17, 2017

The Trading Show Chicago May 2017

Stephane Tyc presented, “The Race Season 5 Whats In The Air” at The Trading Show Chicago May 17-18, 2017. The video from his presentation is available below.      
May 5, 2017

McKay Brothers Expands European Bandwidth Services

Bi-directional bandwidth service between Basildon and Madrid in <18.01 ms – the lowest known latency 5 May 2017 – Geneva – McKay Brothers International (MBI) has announced an expansion of its market leading low latency private bandwidth services between the UK and continental Europe. McKay now offers bi-directional private bandwidth service between Basildon and Madrid in less than 18.01 milliseconds round trip, the lowest known latency. “Madrid is an important financial marketplace in Europe,” says […]
February 15, 2017

McKay Brothers Distributes Osaka Securities Exchange Data in Singapore at Lowest Known Latency

February 16, 2017 / Tokyo and Singapore / McKay Brothers International (MBI) is now distributing Osaka Securities Exchange market data on its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. Select OSE futures are distributed at the SGX data center in Singapore in less than 31.5 milliseconds one-way, the lowest known latency. Private bandwidth at the lowest known latency between the SGX and @Tokyo (CC2) data centers is also available from MBI. “The QED service levels the playing […]
February 8, 2017

McKay Brothers Receives Investment from Tower Research Capital

8 February 2017 – OAKLAND, GENEVA & PARIS — McKay Brothers, a market leader in low latency networks, has closed an investment from affiliates of Tower Research Capital LLC for five percent of McKay equity.  Together, with the previously announced investment from IMC affiliates for twenty percent of equity, McKay has concluded its initial round of outside equity funding.  The investments allow McKay to accelerate its ongoing effort to drive down network latency between financial […]