“We are also delighted to have Ben Myers join our London-based TNS Financial Markets team as Head of Strategic Sales for EMEA, to bolster our presence in the region.”
Transaction Network Services (TNS) says it has become the only provider in the EMEA region to offer vendor-neutral market data application management and consultancy services, combined with comprehensive hosting, connectivity, and cloud services.
The provider of connectivity and market data expanded its US strategy of full-stack market data management to the EMEA region, meaning it can now deliver market data services across the entire trading infrastructure stack.
TNS is a renowned infrastructure provider, bringing together over 5,000 financial community endpoints, supported by a global, 125-strong point-of-presence footprint.The firm offers a range of connectivity, colocation, cloud, market data, and VPN solutions within its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) portfolio.
TNS promises cost savings and economies of scale in market data
The ‘one-stop-shop’ offering is the result of the acquisition of West Highland Support Services, a financial market data solutions provider.
TNS and West Highland services are now available to EMEA customers as a single, combined offering, including connectivity, monitoring, and consulting to financial markets participants. TNS can be leveraged as a single point of contact to manage the full scope of all consolidated feeds and normalized data solutions.
Market data is often one of the top-two spend categories for most trading organizations, but TNS promises cost savings and economies of scale across every element of market data related spend and support, including hosting, connectivity, middleware distribution, market data usage, and incident management.
TNS announces Ben Myers to lead sales in EMEA
To lead strategic sales in the EMEA region, TNS has hired Ben Myers, an experienced executive within the financial markets and trading technology space with more than 15 years working at leading names such as IBM, Thomson Reuters, and most recently ICE Data Services.
Tom Lazenga, General Manager, TNS Financial Markets, said: “This new combined offering strengthens our commitment to providing financial institutions with the very best agnostic support services and trading infrastructure in EMEA. We are also delighted to have Ben Myers join our London-based TNS Financial Markets team as Head of Strategic Sales for EMEA, to bolster our presence in the region.”
Ben Myers, Head of Strategic Sales for EMEA, at TNS, said: “TNS has a strong reputation in EMEA as a leading provider of mission-critical infrastructure and for its exchange expertise. We’re expanding the breadth of options available to clients in the region with a single-point-of-contact solution for all market data related needs globally, helping customers to reduce costs and complexity across their entire market data ecosystem.”
