To replace a legacy trade surveillance system, a major hedge fund engaged Caspian One to build an agile, end-to-end kdb+ solution. With £5.4 million in funding and a team of six onsite specialists deployed within three weeks, Caspian One designed, built, and tested a high-performance trade surveillance platform in collaboration with the client’s 100-person global team.

A leading investment bank in Toronto needed a VP of Kdb for their FICC low latency trading team, requiring expertise in kdb, Python, and Java, and a strong financial services background. Caspian One sourced 24 experts, shortlisted 15, and facilitated nine interviews, leading to a successful acquisition. Starting in April 2023, this resource has contributed to core platform solutions and immediately supported business needs, demonstrating our capability to meet complex, specialized hiring demands.

A leading investment bank in Toronto needed to implement Kdb for the first time to enhance its FICC Low Latency Trading technology. Caspian One secured a project lead and built a robust team around them, two specialist resources including a VP of Kdb. This team has successfully integrated kdb, enhancing the bank's trading operations with faster and more efficient services. This strategic change has significantly boosted banks' market responsiveness and competitive edge. 

In early 2018, a leading investment bank needed a VP-level Global Storage Lead for their London office. Caspian One acquired for the bank, an exceptional expert who brought extensive experience in data migration and storage solutions. Their exceptional performance earned them a promotion to Director within two years. Our continued support has ensured resource growth and success, enabling them to drive the bank's storage strategy, manage a global team, and execute significant projects, enhancing operational efficiency and technological advancement.

For nearly a decade, Caspian One has partnered with a top American investment bank to provide complex trading technology services. In 2022, we secured a critical Risk Viewer project by outshining nine other vendors. Our team enhanced the platform's performance, ensuring a smoother trading process and demonstrating our commitment to quality and cost-effectiveness. 

We optimised a partner's PySpark benchmark and developed PyKX-based Spark examples, achieving a 10x performance improvement in time-series analytics and reducing TCO, enabling the partner to showcase significant efficiency gains.

A leading German investment bank turned to Caspian One to save a high-stakes, £66 million global transaction monitoring platform that had been failing for over two years. Within three months, Caspian One's team was able to deliver initial ROI by capturing and reporting on 80% of GTB risk data.

From April 2022 to March 2023, we enhanced the EFX market making and algorithmic trading systems of a Canadian financial institution. Key components included the EFX pricing farm architecture, KDB flow control, static spread control nodes, and a robust UI, boosting efficiency and competitiveness.

In April 2021, we developed advanced trading systems for Ecommodities, delivering key components such as a tradable Passive Sniper Strategy UI, enhanced OMS entitlement validation, and upgraded kdb adaptors for real-time analytics. By March 2022, these advancements ensured improved trading capabilities and operational efficiency.

An experienced IT service provider partnered with Caspian One to address technical debt in their CEP system, which had accrued due to rapid business growth. By implementing performance improvements, enhancing market data feeds, and scaling up the platform, Caspian One ensured the system could meet increasing demand while supporting new clients and liquidity providers. This allowed the client to maintain stability, enhance reporting, and continue their growth trajectory.