There is a dawning realisation among all asset classes, including foreign exchange, that a focus on speed is no longer enough to stay ahead of the game. Speed is progressively becoming a commodity and there has been a distinct shift away from simply looking for millisecond-advantages to utilising analytics to support smart, rather than just fast, trading decisions.

Over the past decade, there has been a rapid rise in the adoption of speed-based, low-latency strategies – reliant on the ultra-fast consumption of market data and access to the fastest technology and infrastructure for success.