Options Technology: market data, financial networks and managed infrastructure

Options Technology supplies the infrastructure, market data and managed technology used by financial firms to run trading and business systems. Its current range joins the Atlas data and connectivity products with application hosting, workplace IT, security and the PrivateMind AI platform. For a brokerage, these services can support price consumption, trading-system operation, office users and technical investigation. The scope is infrastructure and data delivery; connecting a system to a market or hosting an execution application is distinct from supplying the broker’s liquidity or acting as its trading counterparty.[1]

AtlasFabric describes a global backbone with Layer 1 connectivity, precision time services and automated provisioning. These functions sit beneath the applications that generate or consume trading messages. They matter to a broker because connectivity, clock consistency and the visibility of changes affect how systems are operated and investigated. The advertised network architecture does not create a single latency guarantee for every route: the endpoints, chosen connectivity and service terms define the actual deployment.[2]

AtlasWorkplace addresses the staff and office side of the business. Its published scope includes managed desktops, endpoint controls, global user access, cloud and server infrastructure, and ongoing support. This is broader than housing a trading server in a data centre. It allows a firm to obtain managed user technology alongside specialist financial applications, while retaining the need to define which users, devices and services are included in its own environment.[21]

AtlasEnterprise is relevant when changing data vendors or joining data that uses different names and field definitions. Options describes a progressive migration model, with multiple data dictionaries and symbology mappings, rather than requiring the whole organization to switch simultaneously. Administration is available through a portal and web API. This separates the application’s data-consumption logic from some of the work of permissioning and distributing the underlying sources, while leaving the precise fields and rights dependent on the enabled data products.[4]

AtlasInsight works at a different layer from a normalized feed. It captures and decodes network traffic, with published protocol examples including FIX, OUCH and ITCH. Options describes analysis of feed A/B differences, latency, TCP resets, gaps, ordering problems and order-entry behavior, plus structured export for systems such as KDB+. Deployment is offered as a standalone appliance or software subscription in physical or cloud environments; captures can be stored and retrieved as PCAP files. That creates evidence for technical investigation: an operations team can examine what was observed on the wire instead of relying only on an application’s final status message.[5]

The Atlas product and hosting pages use a sales-led model and do not publish one numerical price covering network capacity, data products, hosting and operational support. Deployment changes the service being bought: a dedicated environment, a shared environment and managed public cloud are different arrangements.[7]

PrivateMind makes its current per-model rate card available on request. Batch processing is offered at half the applicable normal token rate in exchange for a completion window. The discount therefore does not establish a universal published token price.[18]

PrivateMind’s Terms of Service page says its terms are being finalised ahead of full launch and are available on request. The free allowance and quoted enterprise capacity therefore do not supply a complete public statement of subscription, renewal or exit rights.[22]

PrivateMind’s fair-use policy also prohibits reselling the platform or offering its AI-generated content as a service.[19]

AtlasApps describes support across deployment, upgrades and the ongoing operation of financial applications, including L1–L3 support. The distinction is between managing the infrastructure and managing the application lifecycle on top of it. A hosted order-management or risk application still has its own software features and licensing scope; obtaining hosting from Options does not establish that every third-party application is included in the service charge. The implementation needs to identify which team owns application changes, infrastructure changes and the handoff between them.[6]

The professional-services offer adds project management, implementation, staff training and custom reporting. Options identifies experience with Advent Geneva, APX and Axys and with Tradar Insight, including trade interfaces, price loading and reconciliation. These are concrete examples of integration work beyond provisioning compute. They are particularly relevant where a migration involves portfolio or accounting records as well as the runtime environment. The published description supports a project-led service, rather than a universal self-service activation time for every financial application.[15]

Options describes 24/7/365 follow-the-sun support and custom SLAs. The public support page provides regional telephone routes, email, ticketing and status access, and retains a separate support route for ACTIV market-data customers. The distinction matters when an incident spans hosted infrastructure and a particular data feed: the escalation path should identify the responsible service team as well as the severity and contractual response target.[9]

AtlasVision provides a customer view of network status, latency and historical information, including city-pair and bandwidth filters. Its published timing convention is UTC. That gives technical teams a common reference when comparing an event across locations or correlating it with application logs. A monitoring display supplies operational evidence, while the contracted service level remains a separate term; viewing a healthy status at one moment is not proof of an annual availability outcome.[12]

AtlasEnterprise’s permissioning tools control who receives enabled information inside the distribution environment. Those technical permissions are separate from the source contract’s grant of use or redistribution rights.[4]

AtlasFeed’s file description expressly makes delayed and end-of-day access subject to exchange policies. The available interface and the customer’s data entitlements therefore need to be considered together.[3]

In February 2026, Options announced its fifteenth consecutive year of SOC compliance, citing SOC 1 Type 2 and ISAE 3402, SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 Type 2 work. The announcement identifies multiple products in scope, including trading infrastructure, workplace, apps, security, AtlasInsight and PrivateMind. Those are provider-reported assurance results. The relevant report still determines the covered systems, controls and period; a general group statement should not be expanded into a financial permission or a guarantee about every customer configuration.[14]

The publicly accessible Options Privacy Statement concerns website and marketing activity and directs readers to request the full Privacy Policy. It does not establish a complete production-data retention or exit schedule for a hosted trading application. PrivateMind’s own website privacy policy, updated 13 October 2026, covers enquiries, sign-in and the public playground; it tells playground users not to enter personal or confidential information. These website policies are distinct from service-specific fair-use, security and processing terms. The hosting contract and applicable processing terms remain the place to establish how a particular production environment is returned, retained or deleted.[8][23]

Options’ history distinguishes founder Nigel Kneafsey’s consulting origins in 1991 from incorporation in 1993. Subsequent expansion included Fixnetix and ACTIV, followed by Packets2Disk and the Atlas product development. These additions help explain the present combination of connectivity, data delivery and diagnostic tools. The history is relevant to product continuity, but an acquired name is not automatically the contracting entity for every current service.[10]

The current contact page lists regional entities including Options Technology Ltd, Options Information Technology LLC, Options Technology (Asia) Ltd and Options Financial Technology Pte Ltd. The group brand therefore needs to be separated from the legal entity in a customer’s order or agreement. The March 2026 Crossvale completion announcement identifies Danny Moore as chief executive and describes the expansion of modernization capabilities around private cloud and AI.[11][13]

Operator

Options Technology group; published regional entities include Options Technology Ltd and Options Information Technology LLC

Service scope

Market data, financial connectivity, application and workplace hosting, diagnostic tools and managed AI infrastructure.

Customer types

Broker dealers; Banks; Asset managers; Hedge funds; Financial software vendors; Fintech firms

Delivery

Managed service; Hosted; API; On premises; Hybrid

Pricing publication

Public and quoted pricing

Platforms

AtlasFabric; AtlasFeed; AtlasEnterprise; AtlasApps; AtlasWorkplace; AtlasInsight; AtlasVision; PrivateMind

Pricing scope

Atlas terms are sales-led. PrivateMind publishes a limited free allowance; pay-as-you-go is marked coming soon and enterprise AI capacity is quoted. Public service terms remain on request ahead of full launch.

Implementation

Dedicated, shared and managed public-cloud deployment; professional services cover applications, interfaces and migration.

Support

24/7/365 follow-the-sun support with custom SLAs and regional contact routes.

Permissions and regulatory scope

Infrastructure and information services. Data permissioning, source licences and customer contracts define use; SOC assurance is distinct from financial authorisation.

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PrivateMind is now presented through its own site as an Options-operated AI stack, combining infrastructure, a control plane, models, workspaces and platform engineers. It offers an OpenAI-compatible API and coding or quantitative workspaces, including an AtlasFeed-connected proposition. A connection inside a workspace does not itself confer rights to every dataset. The platform also distinguishes privately hosted open-weight models from optional frontier-model routes, which matters to where a request is processed.[17]

PrivateMind’s fair-use policy sets a separate incident-notification promise: without undue delay and within 48 hours after confirming a security incident. The starting point is confirmation, not simply the first suspected event. It also cautions against submitting regulated financial-account or card data, sensitive categories of personal data or secrets unless the enterprise agreement authorizes that use. Those provisions define the AI service’s permitted operating context and should not be replaced by the broad assumption that a private model accepts every kind of production financial information.[19]