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Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, has announced today its expansion into the Indian market as an approved market data vendor for the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and NSE International Exchange (NSE IX). The additions extend Colt’s Capital Markets portfolio into one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing exchange ecosystems, enabling financial institutions to receive raw, real-time tick-by-tick data over Colt’s global network.
NSE is the world’s largest derivatives exchange by number of contracts traded in calendar year 2025 and ranked third globally for equity trades. It holds a dominant market share of roughly 93% in India’s cash market and 100% in equity futures, with a market capitalisation of INR ₹489.97 lakh crore (around US$5.14 trillion) as of August 2026.
Through the new vendor arrangements, Colt will distribute:
- NSE cash-market tick-by-tick data, providing a real-time view of order-book activity in India’s domestic equity market, and
- NSE IX tick-by-tick data from GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City), India's first operational smart city and International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), connecting global firms to the exchange’s US dollar-denominated international product ecosystem, including GIFT Nifty derivatives.
The expansion gives banks, brokers, asset managers, trading firms and market data vendors a simpler way to integrate Indian market data with their wider trading infrastructure, with data feeding directly into their on-premise environments.
For firms operating across Asia, Europe and North America, the addition is designed to reduce the complexity of sourcing and managing separate market-data connections. Colt combines exchange data, low-latency connectivity and real-time service monitoring across a single global platform, helping customers scale access while maintaining the resilience and performance required for time-sensitive trading and analytics.
Wesley Elder, Capital Markets product director, Colt Technology Services, said: “India is not a market global firms can treat as peripheral anymore. NSE sits at the centre of one of the world’s deepest trading ecosystems, while NSE IX is building a bridge between that domestic scale and international capital. Adding both venues means our customers can access real-time Indian market data through the same infrastructure they use to connect to financial centres across Asia, Europe and North America - without adding another layer of operational complexity.”
Colt’s Capital Markets solutions provide access to more than 80 exchanges and liquidity venues worldwide. The portfolio includes market-data delivery, exchange and venue connectivity, cloud-based multicast distribution and monitoring tools, supported by Colt’s high-capacity digital infrastructure across key global financial hubs.
The NSE and NSE IX feeds are expected to be available to Colt customers in Q4, 2026.
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About Colt Capital Markets
Colt’s Capital Markets solutions connect financial institutions to more than 80 exchanges and liquidity venues worldwide through low-latency market data, venue connectivity, cloud delivery and monitoring services. The solutions are underpinned by Colt’s global digital infrastructure, connecting 32,000 enterprise buildings, more than 1,100 data centres and over 275 points of presence across Europe, Asia and the US. To find out more, visit colt.net/solutions/capital-markets.
About Colt Technology Services
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