Per one estimate, a single millisecond lost per trade could be worth 100 million dollars annually to a capital markets major.
For a business that has seen some of the most challenging times, capital markets players are constantly innovating and developing cutting edge business and technology strategies to achieve alpha for their clients.
Microsoft’s vision for the trading room is an STP platform that facilitates trading, collaboration and business productivity and extends to risk management and settlement in a seamless manner to allow capital market firms to focus on maximizing trading opportunities, not on managing technology and tools for sustaining a trading operation.
Microsoft Trading Platform
Microsoft together with its partners offers cutting edge end-to-end mission critical solutions that are best-of-breed, offer tremendous agility and scale while continuing to provide the connectivity and speed that is the hallmark of a trading room infrastructure.
These solutions encapsulate trading across currencies as well as asset classes and derivatives, support exchange or OTC trading, can be offered as on-premise or in the cloud and complement with real time analytics and decision support, all on a complete and familiar Microsoft platform with SQL, Windows Server, Windows System Center, Biz talk server on a .NET framework for rapid deployment that is quintessential in the capital markets business.
A seamless and integrated Microsoft stack means no additional investments to connect disparate technologies or bring together data from multiple sources for pre-trade risk assessment.
Microsoft offers compelling advantages as a single-stop solution provider for mission critical requirements for the trading room along with leading capital market focused ISV’s that provides customers:
- Speed - to create an extremely low latency trading infrastructure
- Computing power - to churn huge volumes of data to predict trends and make the best trade via complex event processing capabilities
- Business Insight – Real time stream insight and search capabilities to maximize trading scenarios
- Risk Management – capabilities to minimize pre-trade and post trade risk
- Business productivity – via collaboration tools for voice, messaging, video, web conferencing and sharepoint etc that are seamless
- Straight through Processing – Connecting trading infrastructure to existing risk and back-office systems as needed to offer real-time views across all LOB’s
- Access -through multiple channels including via mobile and slate on the go.
- Scalability – via huge parallel processing capabilities from the datawarehouse to store and use terabytes of data
- Rapid Deployment – Enabling quick implementation via our SI partners and fast time to market for new products.