Solving business challenges in the financial marketplace
No doubt, the past few years have been filled with abundant opportunities and challenges for companies in the financial marketplace. A volatile market where volumes grow and profits decline makes the drive for increased cost effectiveness the top priority. The need for continuous 24x7 trading has driven exchanges to connect worldwide, so that corporate traders can trade assets globally - anytime, anywhere.
All the while, Financial Markets participants are looking for operational efficiencies that can improve cost structures while meeting an expanding list of regulatory requirements and higher levels of customer expectations.
HP solutions deliver on all counts. HP is a leading provider of infrastructure to the Financial Markets industry. Fourteen of the fifteen largest exchanges and 130 exchanges overall run on HP systems. We can leverage our experience and expertise to your business benefit.
Total solutions from HP
HP has strong, proven capabilities in trading systems. To deliver end-to-end solutions, we work closely with our alliance Partners, including Capco for business and strategic consulting, Toronto Stock Exchange for NonStop-focused industry design and implementation expertise, as well as Atos Euronext, OM, onExchange and others for applications. Our solutions portfolio focuses on:
- Market infrastructure - trading, clearing and settlement solutions incorporating application suites from Atos Euronext, OM, onExchange,and other Partners
- Operational excellence - straight through processing (STP) architectural services, plus solutions in areas such as real-time reference data, order management, order routing, order matching, and exception management; operational risk assessments and services to improve operational efficiency and Basel II compliance
- Trading systems - focusing on Reuters RMDS, Reuters 3000Xtra, and Linux, as well as e-mail archiving solutions to aid in compliance with regulations such as SEC 17a-4
Leveraging experience in these areas, we will work with you to design, build, implement, manage, and evolve solutions that enable you to deploy key capabilities such as STP, continuous 24x7 trading, and Business Continuity approaches to meet evolving requirements from the SEC, SROs, and industry associations.
Services tailored to your needs
Drawing on a wealth of skills and expertise, HP Services professionals with industry experience deliver a depth and breadth of consulting services geared to the needs of Financial Markets companies, including:
- Strategic consulting - where visioning and exploration workshops help you set a strategy that aligns business and technical goals
- Business consulting - incorporating discovery engagements, assessment, and solution scoping
- Technical consulting - including IT architecture services as well as key infrastructure services such as security and IT consolidation
- Project management services - with built-in risk protection, fixed deliverables, and fixed-price business models
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