Telecom major BT announced that its BT Unified Trading
voice service is now available in twelve more global financial centers.  

 

These centers include Chicago, Boston, Charlotte, St
Louis, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore and
Sydney. The service was already available in New York and London.  

 

BT Unified Trading voice service delivers voice over IP
to the trading room using the BT Radianz cloud, the world’s largest dedicated
financial services community of over 15,400 member sites in 64 countries.
Banks, brokers, investment managers, exchanges and alternative trading venues
use this BT service to integrate data,
voice and other multi-media applications through a single, reliable connection.

 

“It is increasingly important for financial services
firms to employ the tools to enable their staff to interact, collaborate and
trade, securely and compliantly, over multiple channels.  Increasingly
this means using software and cloud-based services to build connected
communities in the centers in which they operate around the world,” said
Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of TABB Group.  

 

BT Unified Trading is a collaboration suite for financial
markets, offering customers a powerful set of cost-effective, cloud-compatible
services. It gives market professionals the flexibility to interact,
collaborate and trade securely and with greater compliance via multiple
communication channels, across their enterprise and with their clients and counterparts.

 

“The global roll-out of BT Unified Trading voice
service is significant as it now allows us to provide IP private wire voice
trading services within 14 major financial centers and also to or from those
cities to anywhere else in the world. The reach of BT’s global network
enables us to offer these services in all the major centers and gives customers
additional choice in the vendor landscape.  We also offer the benefits of
feature-rich business continuity planning, self-provisioning and inventory
management capability,” said Andy Nicholson, president, BT Global Banking
& Financial Markets.

 

Recently, BT and Heineken announced their partnership to
extend
the wireless internet service to an additional 200 pubs across the UK by the
end of 2012.  

 

Through Wi-Fi, customers can access a special area of the
internet, the Heineken Hub, for which the UK’s newest newspaper, i, the quality
daily and sister paper to The Independent, is supplying exclusive content.

 

By Telecomlead.com Team
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