Operational time and sessions
Dubai operating time and London market time follow different seasonal conventions. Use named zones for support and market schedules rather than a permanently fixed numerical difference between the two locations.
Market data · deployment planning
Market Data for Brokers in United Arab Emirates
Plan a market-data deployment for United Arab Emirates around the actual source, hosting route, instrument calendars and consumer requirements.
Regional acceptance checks
Test the overnight handover for UAE-based consumers and the handling of instruments that are closed while the local operations team is active. Measure the actual route from contracted sources to the chosen hosting environment.
Requirements to confirm
- Deployment city and hosting environment
- IANA zones: Asia/Dubai and Europe/London
- Per-instrument holiday calendars
- Measured route and incident ownership
Bring the proposed instrument list, source documentation and consumer workflow to a technical discussion. The agreed integration specification defines coverage, fields, usage permissions and acceptance tests.
Integration brief
A practical deployment brief for the United Arab Emirates
| Operating location | Identify the actual hosting city and consumer location before selecting the delivery route. |
|---|---|
| Time zones | Asia/Dubai. Preserve source and archive timestamps in UTC. |
| Instrument calendar | Confirm the source calendar per instrument, including holidays and session breaks. |
| Acceptance evidence | Record the route, test window, clock synchronization and responsibilities for each layer. |
Separate location from instrument policy
Separate the UAE operating clock from each upstream instrument session. A consumer running in Dubai can still receive instruments governed by other market calendars.
What to test
- Measure the agreed source-to-consumer route from the actual hosting environment. Specify maintenance ownership, holiday handling and the fallback status shown when a source market is closed.
- Check that incident ownership covers the sessions your consumers use.
- Compare source event time with receive time rather than reporting an unexplained latency number.