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MiFID II · Dodd-Frank · FCA

Financial services · Trader voice

Private wires.
Reimagined

// always-on voice for the trading floor · fully recorded

Replace turrets and legacy private wires with cloud-native, always-on voice — with full FCA, MiFID II, ASIC & Dodd-Frank compliance, end-to-end encryption, and <150ms end-to-end voice latency.

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<150ms end-to-end100% recordedAES-256 · TLS 1.3MiFID II ready
FX Spot desk — live
12 on desk
09:41:02
You → desk

EUR/USD in 20, choice price?

09:41:03
Broker · LDN

Yours at 1.0862. Done.

09:41:06
Rates desk

10y Bund catching a bid — heads up.

09:41:10
Risk · PM

Copy. Hedging the delta now.

09:41:15
Recording

Sealed · committed to MiFID II audit log.

latency128msopus 48k · DTLS-SRTP

<150ms

End-to-end voice

100%

Calls recorded

90s

To go live

AES-256

Encrypted, always

The legacy floor

Turrets were built
for a different era.

Dedicated private wires and dealer boards tie six-figure budgets to physical hardware, weeks of telco provisioning, and a trading floor everyone has to sit at.

whoot. extends and modernises private wires, turrets, and legacy PBX with a cloud-native, encryption-first voice platform purpose-built for trading floors.

Zero hardware Remote-ready 100% recorded MiFID II

Legacy turret audit · per seat

£50K–£200K per seat / year

Dedicated physical lines per counterparty — capital locked in hardware.

6–12 week provisioning

Every new circuit means telco lead time before a single word is spoken.

Tied to the floor

Little to no remote or hybrid support — traders must sit at the turret.

Siloed recording

A separate capture system to meet MiFID II — another stack to run and reconcile.

Single point of failure

One circuit down and the desk goes silent.

Aging hardware

Vendor support winding down; spares and expertise getting scarce.

The platform

Everything the
trading floor demands.

Purpose-built for traders — always-on voice, dedicated infrastructure, and compliance recording in one platform.

MiFID II & Dodd-Frank

Every voice communication recorded, retained, and retrievable. Regulatory compliance out of the box.

End-to-end encryption

AES-256 in transit and at rest. DTLS-SRTP for all media. Zero-trust architecture.

Full recording

Tamper-proof with speaker ID, timestamps, and 7+ year retention. Keyword search in seconds.

<20ms server-side*

Sub-20ms server-side packet forwarding at our SFU — the engineering moat behind <150ms end-to-end mouth-to-ear latency. Faster than legacy turrets.

Dedicated infrastructure

Your own isolated media servers — not shared multi-tenant. Guaranteed capacity in your preferred region.

90-second setup

No telco provisioning. No hardware. Sign up, create rooms, talk.

PSTN dial-out

Dial any phone number worldwide from a voice room. Counterparties join by phone — no app needed.

Global network

London, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney. Intelligent routing for the fastest path.

Unlimited rooms

Sales desk, rates, FX spot, EM — unlimited always-on rooms. No per-seat turret costs.

Latency methodology. Marketing figures reference end-to-end (mouth-to-ear) latency under typical intra-region network conditions, measured against the ITU-T G.114 recommendation of <150msone-way for “user satisfaction not noticeably affected.” Server-side processing — first RTP packet ingress to first RTP packet egress at whoot.’s SFU — is <20ms. End-to-end latency depends on client device, codec packetization (Opus ptime=20ms), jitter-buffer depth, and last-mile network conditions; typical intra-region mouth-to-ear is 90–120ms.

When milliseconds move markets

Turrets belong to the last decade.

whoot. replaces private wires, dealer boards, and separate recording stacks with a single always-on, fully recorded, instantly accountable voice platform — live in 90 seconds, not 12 weeks.

Zero hardware <150ms E2E 100% recorded AI transcription Dedicated infra 99.999% uptime AES-256

Regulatory compliance

Compliance isn't a
feature request.

MiFID II requires investment firms to record all voice communications related to transactions. Dodd-Frank mandates recording and retention of swap-dealer communications. whoot. was built from the ground up to meet these obligations — not retrofitted.

MiFID II Dodd-Frank FCA MAR SOC 2
Full MiFID II voice recording compliance
Dodd-Frank Act recording & retention requirements
FCA voice recording obligations
Tamper-proof, immutable recording storage
Configurable retention periods (7+ years)
Speaker identification & attribution
Export-ready recordings for regulatory requests
Immutable audit trails: who, what, when
Automated compliance reporting dashboards
Role-based data access with separation of duties

Security

Encryption that
never compromises.

Every byte of voice data is encrypted — no exceptions, no optional toggles.

Encrypted in transit

DTLS-SRTP for all media streams. TLS 1.3 for signalling. Perfect forward secrecy keeps past sessions secure.

Encrypted at rest

AES-256 for all stored recordings and transcripts. Customer-managed keys and data residency for regulated jurisdictions.

Access control

SAML SSO, enforced MFA, 50+ RBAC permissions. IP allowlisting and separation of duties.

Audit & monitoring

Immutable audit logs. Real-time anomaly detection. SIEM integration for your SOC.

Infrastructure

Your own dedicated
trading infrastructure.

No shared resources. Isolated media servers with guaranteed capacity — just like the circuits you're replacing, without the hardware.

Isolated media-server instances per org
Choose region: London, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney
Guaranteed capacity — no noisy-neighbour
Hot standby failover with <50ms switchover
99.999% uptime SLA for enterprise
Private network peering available

Dedicated media servers

all green
London
2msload 12%
Paris
2msload 10%
Frankfurt
3msload 0%
New York
1msload 8%
San Francisco
4msload 12%
Tokyo
4msload 15%
Singapore
5msload 6%
Sydney
5msload 6%
Current uptime99.999%

The difference

Legacy turrets
vs whoot.

Dealer boards and private wires were never designed for cloud-native, remote-ready, sub-150ms trading voice.

Capability
Legacy turrets
whoot.
Setup time
6–12 weeks
90 seconds
Cost per seat
£50K–£200K/yr
From £199/mo +VAT
Voice latency
>200ms
<150ms mouth-to-ear
Remote work
Not supported
Full support
Recording
Separate system
Built in
Encryption
Varies / none
AES-256 always
New room
New circuit
One click
Uptime SLA
Best effort
99.999%
AI transcription
Not available
Real-time
Scaling
Hardware install
Instant
Named vendorsSee whoot. vs Cloud9, IPC & BT IP Trade — the full comparison→

Where it's used

How trading desks
use whoot.

From FX spot to risk management — always-on voice for every desk.

FX spot desk

Always-on voice to brokers. Price requests, fills, and market colour in real time. Every word recorded.

Rates & fixed income

Persistent rooms between desk, sales, and risk. When the curve moves, the whole desk hears it immediately.

Equities sales trading

Cross-connect with execution desks over always-on voice. Push-to-talk and counterparties hear you in <150ms end-to-end.

Risk & portfolio mgmt

Instant coordination when markets move. A single push-to-talk reaches every PM simultaneously.

Setup

Live in
90 seconds.

No hardware. No telco. No procurement. No IT tickets.

01
0s

Sign up

Email + password or SSO. No credit card.

02
15s

Create org

Name your org. Invite traders.

03
45s

Create rooms

FX, rates, EM — one click each.

04
90s

Talk

Push-to-talk. Fully recorded. Done.

ready to replace your turrets

Modernise the desk

Your trading floor.
Modernised.

Book a demo with our financial-services team. See how whoot. meets every compliance, security, and performance requirement — in under 30 minutes.

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