NYSE Technologies has extended its reach into the Asian market by connecting its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) network to a data center in Singapore operated by the data center services provider SGX, the latter company announced earlier this week.

The move gives NYSE greater reach to customers in the Asian trading community, while its SFTI customers around the world get access to SGX’s securities and derivatives markets. SGX can now provide its colocation clients the ability to connect to NYSE Liffe, a European derivatives exchange.

Customers in Singapore that are not taking space at SGX’s data center can still connect their order management systems locally to the facility and gain access to NYSE Liffe that way if they are qualified.

SGX president Gan Seow Ann said the deal fit well into the company’s strategy to increase international trading. “This arrangement forms part of our strategy to reach out to liquidity pools in major financial cities to facilitate cross-border trading between markets,” Ann said.

SFTI provides customers access to a variety of e-trading sevices, including low-latency access to NYSE Euronext’s markets and other global trading venues. NYSE Technologies is a commercial-technology subsidiary of NYSE Euronext.

This is the most recent in a series deals NYSE has done with colocation companies around the world to extend the reach of SFTI. In February, the company announced a similar deal with Q9 in Toronto, as well as one with Equinix in London in November.