Under the terms of the arrangement, Tervela will provide Tradeweb with an enhanced messaging layer to integrate into its existing electronic trading infrastructure.

"Technology is at the heart of our business, and we take pride in making informed decisions when choosing technology partners," said Jay Spencer, Chief Technology Officer of Tradeweb. "When we looked to build out a new messaging layer in our trading infrastructure, we were looking for a rock-solid technology provider and a knowledgeable and responsive partner. Tervela scores well on both counts and has clearly met our expectations."

Tervela provides a dynamic data fabric that radically improves the reliability, performance and cost efficiency of infrastructures that require high speed, no-loss movement of data across complex and demanding business environments.

"Tradeweb has staked out a leadership position in the rapidly evolving electronic trading market for fixed income and derivatives," said Eric Schnadig, CEO of Tervela. "We are delighted to provide the mission-critical infrastructure and time-to-market agility Tradeweb needs for continued growth and technology platform leadership."

The Tervela TMX messaging platform offered Tradeweb the following key functionality:

• Hardware appliances for high-performance environments
  
• VM-based software versions for lower-volume locations & non-production environments
  
• High throughput and low latency performance
  
• Support for flexible message schemas within the product
  
• Three Quality of Service Levels with integrated data persistence
  
• A fully fault-tolerant design architecture
  
• A powerful API to support rapid and seamless client integration
  
• Centralized monitoring and provisioning

Tradeweb chose Tervela to address the information distribution demands of a worldwide network of electronic fixed income and derivatives trading customers in both established and emerging markets.