COLT PRIZMNET AND EUROCTP SERVICES
COLT AND EUROCTP: CONNECTING EUROPE TO THE CONSOLIDATED MARKET DATA
Colt has partnered with EuroCTP to distribute its new EU-mandated Shares and ETFs Consolidated Tape, providing real-time, EU-wide market data via PrizmNet.
PrizmNet is Colt's secure financial extranet, designed to offer resilient, ultra low latency connectivity to global capital markets. Leveraging one of the world’s most connected networks, customers gain direct access to EuroCTP services, including pre and post trade real-time consolidated market data, historical data, flexible distribution options, and market accurate feeds that minimise latency while providing both granular and aggregated views of liquidity.
YOUR GATEWAY TO EUROCTP
With more than 30 years of experience in financial services, Colt connects customers directly to the world's leading global exchanges, trading venues and more than 10,000+ financial institutions.
Designed to minimise risk and complexity, Colt's solutions accelerate time to market with rapid deployment, end-to-end SLAs, flexible contracts and service-based pricing.
With a target go-live data of July 2026, organisations will have day-one access to the EuroCTP's EU Consolidated Tape for shares and ETFs through PrizmNet.
"EuroCTP is proud to welcome Colt Technology Services as a Day-1 redistributor and connectivity provider of Europe's first Consolidated Tape for Shares and ETFs.
Colt shares our commitment to delivering Europe's Consolidated Tape to the market as swiftly as possible - a solution that the industry has long been waiting for. Their decision to be present from day one is a strong signal of that shared ambition, ensuring participants can access secure, resilient and low-latency connectivity via PrizmNet from the earliest possible moment.
Given Colt's long-standing and valued position in capital markets connectivity and market data, we are confident this will deliver real and lasting value for the European market ecosystem."
Veronica Taylor, Head of Sales
EUROCTP SERVICES AVAILABLE VIA PRIZMNET
The tape consolidates pre- and post-trade data from 130+ EU trading venues, MTFs and APA's into a single ESMA regulated stream
WHAT DOES THE EUROCTP FEED CONTAIN - AND WHO NEEDS IT?
Pre-trade (including EBBO, European auction and frequent batch auction best prices)
Buy-Side Traders, Sell-Side SQR systems, algo and HFT desks
EuroCTP delivers a consolidated, real-time view of the best available prices across continuous trading and auction mechanisms across 130+ EU trading venues — regulated markets and MTFs.
Essential for MiFiD II best execution obligations and for routing orders intelligently across a fragmented market.
Post Trade (Consolidated transactions)
Compliance Teams, RegTech platforms, transaction reporting desks, market surveillance
Every trade executed across EU venues and OTC transactions reported via APA’s flows into one authoritative post-trade record. Firms can use this to satisfy MiFiR transaction reporting, monitor market abuse, reconcile positions and benchmark execution quality against the full market.
Reference and Historical Data
Compliance Teams, RegTech platforms, transaction reporting desks, market surveillance
ISIN Mapping, instrument reference, and venue identifiers underpin downstream data normalisation, all from one source rather than stitching together venue datasets.
“The Consolidated Tape initiative for European Shares and ETFs has been in discussion and planning for many years, so Colt is excited to be a Day 1 redistributor and connectivity provider for the service, in partnership with EuroCTP. By offering the service through the PrizmNet ecosystem we are proud to support improved transparency in European trading and deliver even greater value to our customers.” Arthur Rank, Global Director Capital Markets Solutions
EUROCTP DATA FLOW PROCESS
ONE VIEW OF EU EQUITY MARKETS
CONNECTING YOU TO EUROCTP
WHAT DOES THE EUROCTP FEED CONTAIN? AND WHO NEEDS IT?
Existing PrizmNet customers can enable EuroCTP instantly through their current connection – with no additional circuits, or hardware required.
New customers benefit from a managed resilient connection that will provide access to EuroCTP, and extended access via Colt PrizmNet to an ecosystem of 180+ exchanges, venues and service providers.
WHY COLT PRIZMNET
01. GLOBAL REACH
Colt PrizmNet connects you to the world’s leading global exchanges and trading venues, including direct access to EuroCTP. This extended reach gives you the flexibility to trade seamlessly across regions and access high value-market data with confidence.
Regardless of whether your focus spans multiple markets or a single priority market, Colt keeps you connected to what matters the most.
02. HIGH RESILIENCY AND DATA RECOVERY, END TO END SLAS
Colt’s infrastructure is designed to ensure uninterrupted access to global market data and trading services, even during unexpected disruptions. Supported by robust disaster recovery, PrizmNet ensures your connectivity remains secure, stable and always on by delivering guaranteed performance across availability, latency, and delivery – in line with the EU regulatory framework governing EU’s official Consolidated Tape.
03. SEAMLESS CONNECTIVITY AND SERVICE MONITORING - MANAGED MULTICASE DELIVERY
PrizmNet’s multicast infrastructure distributes the tape to all subscribers simultaneously. Together with Colt’s proprietary Market Data Monitoring System (MMS), our solution delivers low-latency, real-time insights into service performance, ensuring seamless market data feed analysis and usage across the PrizmNet network
04. ULTRA-LOW LATENCY NETWORK SERVICES
Built for the most demanding high-frequency trading, Colt’s ultra-low latency network services connect you using high-speed fiber links, minimal media converters, hops and network devices, ensure your EuroCTP data flows quickly and reliably.
COLT'S GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS FOOTPRINT
Colt’s financial market solutions are underpinned by the Colt IQ Network – a 100Gbps optimised intelligent network – distributed to more than 32,000+ on-net buildings, 1,100+ data centres and hundreds of data network connection points around the globe.
With the flexibility and agility to meet the market’s requirements, Colt continues to enhance its connectivity offering to ensure its market leadership across the world.
For more information, please contact us on capitalmarketsspecialistsales@colt.net, or visit our website.
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