Using Akamai's service boosted application delivery performance by 50%. What's more, we gained the capacity to scale on-demand - even during extreme trading peaks.
- Uri Strauss, Head of Operations, Easy-Forex

Customers and clients demand a lot of your online channel, whether your firm focuses on online banking, brokerage services, or asset management.

Online brokerages need to deliver information and transactions quickly. Plus, like banks, brokers need to deliver a variety of services and content to improve customer acquisition and satisfaction. When it comes to online banking, consumers expect a rapid sign-up process and fast access to applications that respond without fail. And firms offering global cash management must ensure a consistent experience, whether their customers are next door or around the globe.

Poor site performance leads to customer dissatisfaction
Unfortunately, users experience poorer performance the further they are from centrally hosted Web sites. Add rich content, transaction-heavy applications, and a geographically dispersed client base to the mix. In the end, customers are dissatisfied and abandon your site due to:
  • Poor Web site response
  • Application latency
  • Dropped trades or transactions

How can you leverage the Internet to effectively offer differentiated services and meet customer demands?

Top Financial institutions trust Akamai, including:

  • 7 of the top 10 world banks (Source: The Banker)
  • 8 of the top 10 U.S. banks (Source: The Banker)
  • 8 of the top 10 world asset managers (Source: Towers Watson)
  • 8 of the top 10 U.S asset managers (Source: Institutional Investor)
  • 10 of the top 10 P&C insurance carriers (Source: A.M. Best)
  • 5 of the top 10 Life & Health carriers (Source: A.M. Best)
  • 2 of the top 5 world stock exchanges (Source: WFE)
  • 8 of the top 10 U.S. online brokers (Source: SmartMoney)

Akamai helps ensure high performance and availability
Akamai's managed services make it possible to deliver applications and content quickly and reliably, so you can satisfy end-user expectations and increase transaction levels - without building out costly data centers. Our managed services address core weaknesses of the public Internet, using the Akamai platform - 95,000 servers across 71 countries - to detect and avoid problem spots. The result is better end-to-end performance and availability for content and applications delivered over the Internet.

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