Beeks Financial Cloud : available on Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric

RNS Number : 1092D

Beeks Financial Cloud Group PLC 29 January 2018

Beeks Financial Cloud Group plc

("Beeks" or the "Company")

Beeks Financial Cloud Services now available on Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric

Glasgow, January 29, 2018 - Beeks Financial Cloud plc (AIM: BKS), a global leader in financial cloud infrastructure, is pleased to announce its cloud services are now available to be purchased via the Equinix Cloud Exchange™ Fabric, Equinix's global interconnection platform for buying and selling cloud services.

The UK-based cloud technology company has been in close collabora.on with Equinix since 2011, u.lising Pla3orm Equinix™ to provide low latency environments for financial markets clients.

This move will serve as a new sales channel for Beeks, allowing exis.ng and new customers to directly purchase and connect to Beeks' products and services via Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric, meaning that the Beeks service will be even more widely available to financial markets clients looking for Infrastructure as A Service providers. By leveraging Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric, Beeks will have the ability to easily extend their reach to a rapidly expanding global base of enterprise buyers via private connec.ons that provide a more consistent user experience. Addi.onally, the so4ware-defined networking (SDN) capabili.es of ECX Fabric enable Beeks to dynamically connect its own infrastructure across Equinix loca.ons or connect to any other customer on the Equinix global pla3orm, regardless of location.

Available in 48 metros globally, Pla3orm Equinix provides virtualized, private and direct connec.ons to the world's largest clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Gordon McArthur, CEO of Beeks Financial Cloud,commented, "As a global leader in the provision of cloud infrastructure for automated trading, the ability for our customers to quickly and securely connect to our services is a key element of our growth strategy. We are delighted to now be able to add Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric as an automated means for customers to access our services."

Russell Poole, MD, Equinix UK, commented, "Equinix provides a global pla3orm for digital business by connec.ng customers physically and virtually around the world, enabling businesses like Beeks to securely deploy, directly connect and effec.vely scale its digital infrastructure globally. By leveraging Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric, enterprises will now be able to directly interconnect with Beeks in a secure, low latency, high performance environment."

For further information please contact:

Beeks Financial Cloud Group plc

Gordon McArthur, CEO Simon Goulding, CFOvia Alma PR

Cenkos Securities plc

[phone]

Derrick Lee / Beth McKiernan

Alma PR

[phone]

Caroline Forde / Josh Royston / Hilary Buchanan / Helena Bogle

ABOUT BEEKS FINANCIAL CLOUD

Beeks Financial Cloud is a UK-based low-latency service provider for automated (also known as algorithmic) trading in Forex and Futures financial products. With nine data centres globally and low-latency connec.vity between sites, Beeks Financial Cloud focuses on reducing barriers to entry and .me to market for ins.tu.onal clients trading forex/futures and equities. For more information, visit:www.beeksfinancialcloud.com.

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