Technology Partners

Technology Partners

  • 4th Story's software products help brokers, hedge funds, market makers and investment managers enable sophisticated automated analyses and backtest and operate complex algorithmic trading strategies.

  • ePulse is a City of London based software and professional services business that has developed a number of leading edge software products used by tier 1 banks globally. The company specializes in delivering innovative and customized instant messaging solutions to businesses and financial institutions alike. Its flagship product OTCtrader is profitably used by many commodities trading houses world-wide. Other products the company markets include new generation market data streaming software. These products were developed through in-depth understanding of front, middle and back office needs of financial institutions. The company also provides secure hosted solutions with 24 x 7 x 365 support.

  • FFastFill plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (FFA:AIM UK) and provides software and services to the global financial community. Headquartered in London with offices in Chicago, Prague and Sydney the full time staff develop and support over 80 financial institutions worldwide using the suite of FFastFill applications.

    Central to the firm is specific market expertise and knowledge in exchange traded derivative instruments although multi-asset clearing and trading functionality provides many clients with equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, CFD and OTC needs. Straight Through Processing is a clear and very tangible result of the FFastFill product set.

    The full trade cycle through front, middle, back and risk are covered though the FFastFill products and all are delivered through Software as a Service (SaaS) medium.

  • FirstCall Market Squawk - is an integrated, vocal, bespoke media service. Our aim to help you maximize your earning potential. We service clients from around the globe from our London Head Quarters in the City. Sourcing and filtering through all the stories that affect your markets.

    FirstCall Market Squawk provides you the market sentiment and trends as they develop - helping you to react quickly and confidently to daily events as our expert broadcasters provide you with valuable insight.

    Our primary goal is to alert you to possible trading opportunities - and also the possible risks within the market. Through development of a bespoke product, we can give you first-rate, objective, market pertinent "Real-time media" information, via a fast, efficient and stable platform. We allow you to work out how best to manage your positions, an extra pair of eyes and ears; to help minimise exposure to fundamental market news.

    No other service will provide you with the most up-to-date, relevant news. We are proven to be the quickest in the market for conveying pertinent news to our customers.

  • Interactive Data delivers a comprehensive set of products and services designed to meet the needs of the front, middle and back offices at some of the largest and most well-known institutions around the world. These clients trust Interactive Data to help support their investment activities and operational workflow through a broad range of offerings.

  • Patsystems deliver tailored solutions, built from modular components, to enhance derivatives trading performance and trade processing. Their solutions range from plug-and-play modules that address specific issues, to complete high-performance trading systems with extensive global access to derivatives Exchanges and clearers.

  • Smartphonet is a company specialising in the development of financial software for mobile phones.

    To date we have released some iPhone Apps, one of which, 'Spot Wocu...in your pocket', is a collaborative project between Wocu.com and Smartphonet.

    The company particularly specialises in using the mobile phone as a processor with access to the Internet, rather than developing mobile browser based access to a system running centrally. This has many advantages, two of which are:

    •  An unbroken service even when Internet access is not possible.
    •  Utilisation of mobile bandwidth kept to a minimum - only data is sent,
        not web pages and images.

    The company plans to release many more Apps, either as a result of internally designed and developed products, or based on further joint-ventures. The company also undertakes consultancy, and we are particularly interested in developing mobile solutions in the financial and media industries.

    Smartphonet has access to many years of experience in the financial markets and in the use of technology to support activities in this sector. It's Board has well over 100 years of accumulated knowledge covering trading, banking, development and consultancy.