Global trade blotter
A front-office blotter that gave 200 sales and marketers worldwide one view of their group's trades.
Reference data services
A service-oriented reference-data layer for the whole Rates marketing application stack, replacing copies of the same data in every system.
Risk and compliance governance
Bringing the strategic trade-capture and revenue-reconciliation system up to the bank's compliance and risk standards so it could be rolled out globally.
Bulk and strategy trade processing
A framework for packaged and strategy-based trades, where groups of trades share economics and must be processed together to hedge and hit a target return.
Structured trade processing
A single framework for the end-to-end processing of structured and exotic hybrid trades, replacing manual workarounds that caused errors and control gaps.
Infrastructure upgrade and data-centre migration
A unified hosting platform for the global sales and marketing application stack, then its migration to a new data centre.
Component consolidation
Retiring a legacy web component in favour of the strategic rich-client platform, cutting a parallel code base and the cost that came with it.
Prime brokerage: hedge fund services
Running the trade-capture and processing platform behind give-up trades for two external hedge funds, with 300 EMEA users relying on it.
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