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Exchanges and Liquidity Venues

Members demand proof of fair treatment. Regulators require detailed audit trails. Technology behaviour directly affects liquidity formation — and service degradation erodes market confidence and revenue. Full observability is not optional. It is business-critical.

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The Challenge

Exchanges and liquidity venues operate high-performance infrastructure, matching millions of trades per second. Member orders must be processed quickly, fairly, and transparently. Market data must be distributed at maximum speed. Operations teams require nanosecond-resolution detail across every component.

Exchange operations teams must:

Prove fair treatment

Demonstrate consistent, equitable execution for all members.

Maintain member confidence

Identify and resolve performance issues before trading is affected.

Meet regulatory requirements

Provide detailed audit trails for compliance enquiries.

Link technology to outcomes

Connect infrastructure behaviour to latency, match quality, and member experience.

Assure market data performance

Maintain distribution quality and speed.

Manage operational risk

Detect problems across complex systems before they escalate.

Ensure business continuity

Prevent issues that could disrupt trading or damage market integrity.
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The Solution

Built for the most demanding trading environments, xMetrics delivers end-to-end observability across order execution and market data publishing. Every order and every market data tick is measured and correlated across every infrastructure hop.

Order Entry and Execution

Track latency from receipt through gateway to matching engine
Correlate across unlimited execution hops
Build custom metrics and real-time transformations with the Mutations Framework

Market Data Quality & Performance

Detect gaps and microburst impacts across all feeds
Measure latency for symbol updates and events
Identify distribution issues before members are affected

Member Monitoring

Monitor colocation and WAN-connected members
Track individual member connection health and performance
Detect degradation before it impacts trading

Complete visibility across network, matching engine, gateways, and market data distribution­­­­ – with seamless integration into BI and data warehousing platforms for forensics and regulatory reporting.

What You Gain

Member Experience and Transparency

  • Full transparency on order execution outcomes
  • Faster response to member enquiries
  • Auto-discovery and monitoring of member order flows
  • Measurable evidence of colocation performance advantages

Operational Risk and Performance

  • Reduced risk of service degradation and outages
  • Faster troubleshooting and resolution times
  • Optimised latency across every infrastructure hop and path
  • Validated gateway, matching engine, and feed assembly performance

Market Data Quality

  • Precise analytics to maximise data feed quality
  • Latency analysis for every hop in the distribution chain
  • Gap and microburst detection across all feeds
  • Network performance monitoring and bandwidth optimisation
  • Optimised order-to-tick response times

Compliance & Accountability

  • Lower regulatory risk trough trusted compliance data
  • Time-synchronised audit trail for every transaction
  • Efficient adaptation to new regulatory data requirements

Capacity & Investment

  • Capacity sizing for optimal performance
  • Benchmarking of software updates, including matching engine changes
  • Informed infrastructure investment decisions

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