At JWG-IT's 'THE FORUM' event at the Le Méridien Parkhotel in Frankfurt on 16 June 2008, the leading global provider of network-neutral datacentres and Internet exchange services, Equinix Inc. will showcase its network of Equinix Financial eXchange community offering.

'THE FORUM' will focus on clarifying the agenda for EU principles-based regulation in the post-MiFID environment, and its conference agenda aims to discuss what buy-side and sell-side organisations need to do to ensure they are still in a winning position five years after the passage of MiFID. With further events to follow in Paris, Madrid and Milan, this is the second in a series of pan-European industry conferences.

At the event, Equinix will platform its network of global Equinix Financial eXchange communities, which now include Frankfurt, London and Paris in Europe as well as Chicago and New York in the United States.

Consisting of capital market participants such as market data providers, buy and sell side firms, execution venues, technology utilities and network service providers, that locate operations within Equinix data centers in order to implement a high-performance, low latency connectivity infrastructure within a neutral environment, Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest. Providing solutions for their multi-network connectivity and high-performance data center needs, within the same physical location, Equinix customers can directly exchange data with customers and vendors, strategic partners.

Equinix Financial eXchange, launched in 2003, now extends to hundreds of members and is available in Equinix IBX centers located in the Frankfurt, New York, Chicago, Paris and London areas.