Client Overview
A major financial services firm operating in global payments, foreign exchange, clearing, and execution needed a reliable, regulation-compliant timing solution.
The Challenge
Traditional GPS-based systems were impractical to install due to data center restrictions on satellite antennas.
Yet, precise and traceable time synchronization was essential to meet strict financial regulations like MiFID II and CAT NMS, and to ensure data integrity across distributed systems.
The Solution: Hoptroff Traceable Time as a Service (TTaaS®)
Hoptroff partnered with the client’s data center provider to deliver an end-to-end, fully-managed timing solution that:
- Accurate and Resilient: Dual satellite and terrestrial time feeds, fully traceable to UTC and validated by national timing authorities (e.g., NIST, NPL, RISE).
- Compliant: Built to meet stringent security and financial services regulations such as MiFID II, CAT NMS, DORA, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 standards.
- Flexible: Works across cloud, hybrid, multi-cloud, and private deployments, synchronizing seamlessly with on-premise systems.
- Comprehensive: Includes timestamping, monitoring, analytics, reporting, and alerts with SLA precision to 100 microseconds.
The Results
✅ Full Regulatory Compliance — MiFID II-compliant without local GPS infrastructure.
✅ Significant Cost Savings — Eliminated the need for expensive hardware and maintenance.
✅ Enhanced Resilience — Dual-source UTC traceability ensures uninterrupted accuracy.
✅ Strategic Partnership — The data center provider now collaborates with Hoptroff to extend timing services to other clients.
Why It Matters
Hoptroff’s Traceable Time as a Service (TTaaS®) proves that precision timing can be delivered across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments, offering:
- Provable accuracy
- Regulatory confidence
- Operational efficiency
About Hoptroff
Hoptroff provides secure, resilient, and compliant time synchronization to enterprises worldwide.
The solution eliminates the need for on-site timing hardware, delivering traceable UTC time directly to your infrastructure with ISO-certified reliability.