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Consulting Services
We offer a wide range of consulting services to help you tackle specific issues.

System Selection (RFI/RFP)
Choosing the right trading system for your specific needs can be complex. When your trading requirements involve multiple locations, multiple exchanges and different business units, you need to make difficult choices on which system to implement.

We can guide you through the Request For Information and Request For Proposal (RFI/RFP) stage, and our experience helps you pick the right system for your needs. We have extensive experience with many industry leading trading systems.

If you are looking to build a custom solution in-house, we can also introduce you to many open-source messaging, pricing and connectivity technologies that can allow for open customisation, reduce your software costs and get your product to market as quickly and efficiently as possible.


Project Management
We can help you shorten your time to market, by managing all or part of the project roll-out for you. Our experience with installations of all the common trading platforms allows us to quickly identify actions on the critical path and work with you, your suppliers and internal and external parties to ensure that your trading system is live in the shortest time possible.


System Installation
We can help you through the deployment of your new trading system with support during purchasing, installation, exchange conformance testing, end-to-end and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Understanding and fulfilling exchange requirements, particularly in Asia, is a complex and time consuming process, with multiple steps and buy-in needed from all parts of the organization.


System Integration
We can work with you to integrate new systems with other business functions (back, middle office) and legacy systems. We have experience with multiple APIs and messaging protocols including FIX, message queues (e.g. JMS, MSMQ), Tibco Rendezvous, and proprietary protocols like Orc Protocol.


Custom Development
To bridge the gap between what your traders need, and what vendors can supply, we can add new functionality to existing systems, using our business knowledge, and the foundation provided by your current systems. We provide the source code to any developments that we do, so that you can continue to maintain and build on them without incurring additional support costs.


Support
Even after you go live, we can continue to support your system and components allowing you to get the most of your systems as your business evolves.


Why Us?
  • We help you make the right selection for your users and budget, and eliminate the risk in investing in an unknown solution. We help you get to market, and quickly recoup your software investments.
  • We provide you with a system that does exactly what you want, and by only building the pieces you need we reduce your risk and quality problems by basing your solution on a tried and tested foundation.
  • We enable you to quickly integrate new systems with other parts of the business, allowing you to add new functionality without disrupting the rest of your business.
  • We keep you in the market, and quickly respond to your changing requirements. You will know that your product and system will be supported in the future, and that you'll be able to quickly extend it when necessary.
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