Nicolas Levy, Managing Director, MarketPrizm: "We are introducing MarketPrizm to North America as an answer to the high cost and resource investment required for trading infrastructure and connectivity in Europe."

Chi-Tech, the technology services unit of Chi-X Global Inc., has announced that its European trading venue connectivity network and managed infrastructure service, MarketPrizm®, is now available to firms in North America. Previously the service was available only to European-domiciled firms.

MarketPrizm is a comprehensive infrastructure delivered as a service, designed to provide authorized trading venue members and broker-sponsored firms a technology platform for accessing the European marketplace. The service comprises connectivity to the trading venues in the UK and Europe from colocated data centers in the region, as well as market data, hosting options, third party applications and full support.

Nicolas Levy, MarketPrizm Managing Director, said of the initiative, "In response to requests from firms in the region, we are introducing MarketPrizm to North America as an answer to the high cost and resource investment required for trading infrastructure and connectivity in Europe."