Investment banking
To deliver ever more responsive trading, investment banks need outstanding levels of IT performance
The increasingly complex, highly sensitive trading environments of today make informed IT decisions vital to success. It’s no time for guesswork - you need quantified analytical insight to guide you. Whether you’re representing the IT or business side of the organisation, our configurable services join the dots to build a deeper understanding of your trading performance – delivering quantified insight to help you improve bottom-line performance, drive down costs, and gain the competitive edge.
Your challenges
IT
- What trading volumes can we currently support and what will be the impact of a change in trade mix?
- How much capacity do we need to complete the overnight batch run in time?
- How can we meet batch processing SLAs and reduce latency?
Business
- How can we increase trading throughput and maximise growth opportunities?
- What is the settlement time for each trade?
- How much business are we losing through exceptions?
Our service and what it can do
We address these challenges and more by supplying powerful, accurate modelling and analysis around the 3 key dimensions to trading optimisation: capacity, performance and understanding the impact of change. Our approach connects and relates layers of systems and business data that exist within an organisation - from low-level infrastructure components right up to business processes, transactions and the end-user experience - to make the relationships between them tangible and quantifiable.
- Capacity planning
accurately aligning IT provisioning to trade mix and volumes by understanding how different trade types consume IT and forecasting capacity headroom against demand. - Optimising performance
improving service quality by understanding latency issues and bottlenecks through all types of trade flows. - De-risking change
responding rapidly to change using change impact modeling to understand the full implications to your infrastructure and the business.
Why our services are different
We provide a low-risk, high value service that delivers the answers you need on demand - with no lengthy deployment or integration effort. Put simply, we’re specialists in delivering the rapid, accurate analysis you need to understand the complex optimisation factors across your trading landscape – leaving you to concentrate on taking positive, practical action to drive business advantage.
What you get
- We continually capture granular data from across your IT environment and business trading landscape – maintaining a dynamic, up-to-date representation of your trading environment.
- Fed by your data and using our extensive modelling IP, we create and maintain an accurate model of your trading environment, correlating IT capacity and performance to trading activity.
- We analyse your environment intelligently, using ground breaking automated analysers and expert analyst interpretation, running multiple scenarios to inform the decision making process.
- We deliver our reporting in a format and frequency that works for you. Our findings are delivered in a variety of ways, from a tailored Web portal featuring cutting-edge visualisation techniques to direct dialogue with our analysts.