dxFeed Aces Market Stress Test, Fortifying Financial Stability

NEW YORK, NY – January 09, 2026 – In a powerful demonstration of operational resilience, market data provider dxFeed announced its successful completion of the 2025 SIFMA/FIA Industry-Wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Test, achieving a flawless performance that underscores the critical role of robust infrastructure in maintaining global financial stability.

The annual exercise, a coordinated effort by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and the Futures Industry Association (FIA), is the definitive benchmark for the financial sector's ability to withstand extreme disruptions. dxFeed's seamless execution in this high-stakes environment reaffirms its position as a cornerstone of market data reliability at a time when downtime can cost millions per minute.

The High-Stakes World of Market Resilience

Held on October 25, 2025, the industry-wide simulation is far more than a routine check. It is a complex, large-scale event involving nearly 100 of the most significant players in the financial ecosystem, including exchanges, clearinghouses, and service providers. The test simulates a major crisis, forcing participants to switch operations to their backup data centers and disaster recovery sites to process test transactions across equities, options, futures, and fixed income markets.

The stakes for such preparedness have never been higher. In today's hyper-connected financial landscape, operational failures carry catastrophic costs. Recent industry reports indicate that the average cost of a single downtime incident for a financial firm can reach nearly $5 million. For large investment banks and high-frequency trading firms, the losses can be even more acute, with estimates suggesting a single hour of downtime on a trading floor can cost upwards of $9 million.

This immense financial risk has drawn intense scrutiny from regulators. In the wake of high-profile cyberattacks and system failures, bodies like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have amplified their focus on operational resilience. The CFTC, for instance, has proposed a new operational resilience framework aimed at strengthening risk management and BCDR plans, making verifiable resilience not just a best practice, but a regulatory imperative.

A Flawless Performance Amid Industry Challenges

Against this backdrop, dxFeed’s performance in the 2025 test was exemplary. The company reported a perfect transition to its disaster recovery environment, maintaining stable, real-time data dissemination without any interruption or degradation across all its tested market feeds. This “flawless DR cutover” stands out, especially as the broader industry continues to grapple with persistent challenges.

While the financial sector as a whole demonstrated strong preparedness with a 95%+ success rate, the test also highlighted ongoing issues, including “occasional communication latency between participants and isolated cutover delays among a few market utilities.” Latency—the fractional delay in data transmission—can erode or eliminate profits in automated trading, while cutover delays during a real crisis could freeze critical market functions.

By navigating the test without such issues, dxFeed validates its foundational commitment to reliability. The company’s success reflects a long-term strategy centered on a highly available, geographically diversified, and redundancy-first infrastructure design.

“Each year, these tests give us the opportunity to validate our readiness to support clients and markets without interruption, no matter what real-world stress scenarios arise,” said Stepan Bolshakov, Managing Director at dxFeed, in a statement. “The 2025 results are a testament to the strength of our engineering teams, the maturity of our systems, and our unwavering focus on ensuring uninterrupted, high-quality market data delivery.”

The Bedrock of Modern Algorithmic Trading

For a growing segment of the market, dxFeed’s proven resilience is not merely a feature but the lifeblood of their business. Algorithmic and high-frequency trading firms depend on a continuous, ultra-low-latency stream of market data to execute millions of orders per second. In this environment, any data interruption or lag is not an inconvenience—it is a direct threat to profitability and risk management.

Uninterrupted data delivery is the algorithmic edge. It ensures that trading models are operating on the most current market information, allowing them to identify opportunities and manage positions effectively. A data outage, even for a few seconds, can cause algorithms to misread the market, leading to flawed trades and significant financial losses. dxFeed’s performance provides a crucial assurance to these clients: that the data pipeline they rely on is one of the most durable in the industry.

This reliability is increasingly vital as markets become more global and operate on a 24/5 or even 24/7 basis. The demand for infrastructure that can perform flawlessly around the clock, across different geographies and through any potential disruption, has become a key competitive differentiator for data providers.

Building for the Future with AI and IaaS

DxFeed’s success is not an isolated achievement but the result of a forward-looking technology strategy. The company’s focus on enhancing its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions is central to its mission of building next-generation resilience. This commitment has already earned it significant accolades, including the “Best Data Provider 2025” award from Fund Intelligence and the “Best Infrastructure Provider” title in 2023 for its IaaS offering.

By leveraging AI-driven tools like its SummerFox market intelligence engine, dxFeed helps clients make faster, more informed decisions. At the same time, its IaaS model allows financial firms to offload the complexities of managing market data infrastructure, enabling them to focus on their core business while relying on dxFeed’s proven, resilient backbone.

This approach aligns with a broader industry shift toward cloud-native architectures and AI-powered operations to enhance resilience. As financial systems become more distributed and complex, these technologies offer automated monitoring, fault isolation, and faster recovery times, creating a more robust and flexible ecosystem.

Following the 2025 test, dxFeed has already committed to using the insights gained to further optimize its internal workflows and refine its DR procedures. This cycle of testing, learning, and enhancing ensures that as market demands evolve and new threats emerge, its infrastructure remains a steadfast pillar of support for the global financial industry.