Capital Markets

Helping investment banks, asset and wealth managers, and exchanges explore their digital potential and reimagine their future.

Aside from Equities, the client also used DataSynapse GridServer for running HPC workloads for Fixed Income, FX Options, Market Risk and Credit Risk. GFT was engaged by Google to develop a deployable reference architecture for running DataSynapse GridServer on GCP.

Challenge

Stay ahead in capital markets

Banks that operate in capital markets must address and manage an increasing array of financial regulations, with deepening levels of complexity. The Covid pandemic has further accelerated the adoption of digitisation and strategic investments in new technology and platforms.

New entrants to the market can exploit purpose-built digital infrastructure and focus on new types of transactions at far greater speed than established players. However - there is an opportunity to make the most of legacy investments to leapfrog the competition.

POV: Align data with regulatory compliance and profitability

Data is the lifeblood of financial services. All banks consume and process a wide array of data, from a broad range of sources for an extensive range of purposes; to front-office decision making and back-office reporting.

They are also prolific generators of vast quantities of data. Adopting a strategic approach to compliance means storing and managing data in a structured way, so that it can be analysed and used without requiring a major IT investment.

Regulations often require the processing and analysis of large volumes of data. The incoming Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, for example, requires banks to calculate and report their daily risk exposure, involving vast volumes of data across all asset classes, for both the standard and internal model approaches. This requires immense computing power and a RegTech approach to compliance.

GFT: Capital Markets

Experience and expertise

GFT has experience and expertise for successfully addressing the complex technology problems at the heart of many global institutions. We apply digital precision engineering and agile delivery methods that have proven positive outcomes and demonstrable, repeatable benefits.

Appetite of our clients

Our engagements can be planned to accommodate the financial and risk appetite of our clients, as either large, risk mitigated projects or through iterative delivery of smaller cost reductions that finance subsequent activities in a programme of work.

Deriving value

GFT Capital Markets team is precise in its focus on deriving value for our clients.

‘Make us better’ - Discover Your Competitive Edge

We are often asked to modify a standard ‘off-the-shelf’ deployment and make it fit for a competitive, global banking business to their markets in a variety of use cases.

If you need to enable better experiences for your teams and customers, it’s time to consider how you will drive your bank’s digital potential.

Success stories

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