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1. Ultra-Low Latency Firm Metamako in Rapid Growth Throughout 2017 Metamako, the ultra-low latency solutions provider and a rising player in the the financial industry’s RegTech/compliance space, has continued its rapid growth during the first half of 2017. Metamako’s business growth has been driven by significant new product launches and the adoption of its platforms by a number of partners in areas such as regulation and compliance. Its FPGA- enabled high-performance networking devices have been in much demand in 2017, with growth driven by an expanding set of use-cases including the increased need for highly accurate data capture and timestamping, FPGA technology and RegTech/compliance. The launch of Metamako’s powerful 96-port programmable switch, along with the triple FPGA E-Series devices, have further contributed to the expansion. So far this year, the company’s partner ecosystem has been joined by several solution partners including Enyx, MayStreet, NovaSparks and ArrayWare. In addition, the firm has made several key appointments, namely Max Vit as the Head of Operations in Sidney, Annekathrin Häse as Director of Marketing and Communications in London, and Matthew Knight, VP of Technical Marketing in New York. Prior to joining Metamako, Vit served as Director of Operations of Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre (NICTA) and The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Häse worked as CMO at MindLink, as well as at Roambi, Satmetrix and at Dynamic Logic. Knight was most recently Technical Marketing Director, Financial Services, at Solarflare Communications, having previously held roles at Accensus LLC as Head of Labs at DRW Trading Group, and at STAC Research as a consultant. Kevin Covington, Chief Executive Officer at Metamako, said: "2016 was a stellar year for us, and 2017 is proving to be just as busy, with the company scaling up operations to meet the increasing demand for our products, with new clients and new products in the pipeline, and exciting new partnerships. Our development and support teams in Sydney have grown by over 25% and I’m delighted to have Max, Matthew and Annekathrin join us. Establishing such a strong team can be seen as a rite of passage, as Metamako transitions from being a very successful start-up technology disruptor to a world leader in FPGA and high-performance networking solutions. " Dave Snowdon, CTO at Metamako, said: "Being brought into the RegTech/compliance space so quickly has been fascinating; timestamping, especially in relation to MiFID II compliance, continues to be an important issue for our clients, along with latency reduction and the use of FPGAs. We are finding that institutions are looking to expand their use of our networking platforms to a much wider range of use-cases with FPGA development and usage leading the way. As always, the challenge is to think ahead of our clients and the CFD Industry News."