Trading Technologies

Trading Technologies (TT), a global provider of high-performance trading software, announced plans to launch a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) trading platform for professional traders that provides extremely fast execution performance, access to real-time market data and the ability to trade global financial markets from any desktop or mobile device.

“This new Web-based trading platform is a reflection of Trading Technologies’ over-the-horizon thinking. It provides thousands of traders in more than 40 countries and five continents with mobile, reliable, fast access to dozens of global derivatives markets.”

Mike Mayhew

VP of Global Operations, Trading Technologies

Business Need

Ability to access global markets, manage orders and automate trading strategies from any desktop or mobile device.
Desire to gain immediate access to new features and functionality without performing complex software upgrades.

Need to trade competitively with low-latency execution with persistent, secure access to real-time and historical market data.

Challenges

Design a highly scalable and reliable trading platform infrastructure that facilitates rapid innovation and agile development. TT’s internally developed messaging solution, the foundation of its existing trading platform:
Provided questionable value over commercially available options.
Proved incompatible with commercially available diagnostic and performance analytic tools.

Required a heavily staffed, dedicated development team.
Diverted company’s focus from its core competency and customer value proposition - creating innovative trading tools.

Solutions & Results

Utilizes Informatica Ultra Messaging as core component in TT infrastructure.
Allows highly-skilled resources to focus on innovating.
Reduced internal development resources dedicated to messaging and IPC by 90%.

Scalable, high performance and reliable messaging solution.
Increased the availability of development, staging, production environments by many factors.

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