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ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc.
	Logo of ACTIV
Company type	Private Company
Industry	Financial services
Predecessor	A-T Financial Information, Inc., a market data firm eventually acquired by Thomson
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Chicago, United States
Number of locations	5 offices (Chicago, New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Steve J. McNeany (CEO), Frank Piasecki (President), Michael Dunne (CTO)
Products	ActivWorkStation ; MPU Gen3 ; ActivFeed Direct ; ActivFeed
Services	market data solutions
Number of employees	< 200 (2015)
Website	ACTIVFinancial.com
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Founded in 2002 by a group of market data professionals from trading firms, ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. is a financial data vendor focused on low latency technology and global distribution of market data.
ACTIV supplies market-data content and technologies to different kinds of financial actors: market makers, hedge funds, brokers and trading systems.
ACTIV is committed to Research and development in order to provide financial markets' actors with efficient and effective technologies to solve the needs of global and low latency market data distribution. ^[2]

Products[edit]

ACTIV provides different types of market data services for electronic trading strategies: ^[3]

ActivFeed, which delivers low-latency feeds;
ActivMiddleware, a layered suite of software components and services for building large-scale real-time distributed systems;
ActivMessaging, a messaging substrate, which delivers arbitrarily large messages over shared memory;
ActivDatabase, a real-time database engine;
ActivWorkstation, a tick market data interface, which offers pre-opening market data, net-order imbalances, and full tick coverage data.
Additional services: technology management, content management, and support services.

Furthermore, ACTIV offers content from various exchanges, enriching that content with corporate actions, fundamental data, news, and time series data, and operates with the status of Vendor of Record for equity, derivative, and commodity exchanges.
Besides, ACTIV supplies algorithmic and electronic trading, global enterprise distribution, Direct market access and trading platform, tick capture engines and backtesting, and market making and auto-quoting solutions.

ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.
ACTIV has opened additional offices in New York City, NY; Wheaton, IL; Cambridge, UK; Singapore and Tokyo.
The company also has datacenters in Toronto, Hong Kong and Frankfurt. ^[4]

At the end of 2009, ACTIV was already serving over 300 customers and managing more than 130 feed-handlers and nearly 20 data centers spread worldwide. ^[5]
On January 20, 2010, ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc., announced that Bessemer Venture Partners has made a minority equity investment in the firm.
The investment aimed to help ACTIV drive new customer acquisition, power continued product innovation and meet the growing demand for low latency market data solutions.

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^ "ACTIV FINANCIAL RECEIVES INVESTMENT FROM BESSEMER VENTURE PARTNERS". FinSMEs. FinSMEs. 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2015.