Fortifying IT Security for a Leading Canadian Bank
In early 2024, we revamped the outdated IT security systems of a major Canadian bank. Our expert team upgraded data transfers from FTP to SFTP and resolved critical security vulnerabilities. By January 2025, the project will have eliminated all critical security risks and threats for the bank.
Optimising Trading Risk Technology for a Leading Investment Bank
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.
Driving High-Performance Time-Series Analytics
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.
Rescuing a Global Transaction Monitoring Platform for Real-Time Risk Management
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.
Bringing State-of-the-Art Prime Brokerage to the US Market
Caspian One collaborated to build a new system for a bank's Global Prime Brokerage business. This 5-year initiative focused on development, automation, and database optimisation while integrating multiple vendor systems and migrating the current Canadian platform, ensuring seamless integration and improved efficiency.
Libor Transition: Enabling Stability Through Financial Change
A prominent financial institution in Canada proactively tackled the Libor transition through a multi-year program led by an expert Program Manager. This initiative developed strategic plans, updated and digitized 50,000+ systems, and remediated documentation, ensuring a smooth transition.
EFX Market Making
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.
Advanced Trading Systems for Ecommodities
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.
EFX Platform Decommissioning
In 2020, we assisted a European Investment Bank in decommissioning its legacy eFX platform and transitioning to a microservices architecture. The project involved developing a low latency pricing, hedging, and trading stack, and enhancing the Single Dealer Platform, improving planning and governance processes.
Test Lab Infrastructure
We're advancing innovation in telecoms by automating test labs, reducing testing time and boosting efficiency, enabling faster deployment of cutting-edge technologies. In this story, we helped a telecom company modernise their test lab infrastructure by automating processes, improving efficiency and quality in firmware development and testing.
3rd party test automation
We helped a telecom company automate and futureproof their voice testing capabilities by conducting a discovery phase, defining clear milestones, and providing structured project management, ensuring accountability and efficiency.
OSL Exchange Scalability and Stability
Caspian One partnered with a leading IT service provider to improve the scalability and stability of their exchange platform. By delivering solutions that enhanced the scalability of their UI and FIX connectivity, optimising matching engine performance, and improving system supportability, Caspian One resources ensured the platform could handle growing demand and maintain operational efficiency.
Infrastructure and Service Resilience for Electronic Trading and Client Service Delivery
A leading IT service provider collaborated with Caspian One to enhance the resilience and performance of their electronic trading and client service delivery systems. Caspian One provided full-stack engineering expertise, optimised infrastructure management using Terraform and Ansible, and automated deployment processes. This partnership ensured 24/7 platform availability, improved execution strategies, and faster client onboarding, positioning the provider for continued success and growth.
CEP System Improvements
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.
Scaling a Pre-Sales organisation across EMEA
One of our clients, a leading broadcast technology company identified the need to scale their Pre-Sales organisation across EMEA, responding to increasing demand and recent business successes. They sought a VP of Pre-Sales, EMEA, to head up this growth. Caspian One, partnering exclusively with the company, conducted a thorough market search within three weeks, providing a shortlist of qualified senior professionals. A strategic appointment was made within six weeks, resulting in the onboarding of a VP who quickly began driving growth and expanding the Pre-Sales team.