Capacity Testing | Future-Proofing Trade Processing
Caspian One is helping global financial institutions overcome trade processing challenges, ensuring their systems remain scalable, efficient, and competitive in high-stakes environments. Continue reading ↓
Did You Know?
A major investment bank faced a critical trade processing bottleneck, where delays in their Order Management System (OMS) threatened operational efficiency. Caspian One stepped in, developing a capacity testing framework that resolved the issue in under a year, future-proofing the bank’s ability to handle increasing trade volumes.
This story represents Caspian One’s ability to diagnose and resolve critical trade processing inefficiencies through capacity testing, ensuring investment banks can maintain operational efficiency at scale. By implementing an automated capacity test framework, we not only eliminated existing trade bottlenecks but also provided a futureproof solution that allows the client to test and optimise their Order Management System (OMS) as trade volumes continue to grow.
Our strategic approach and technical expertise reinforced the bank’s ability to operate seamlessly in high-stakes financial environments, securing their competitive advantage in an increasingly demanding market.
The Challenge
In investment banking, every second counts. When an OMS fails to process trades efficiently, traders are left waiting, customers grow impatient, and reputational risk increases. A leading investment bank identified a serious issue within its Asset Management division. Trades were flowing out of the OMS but getting stuck in an EMS emulator, causing significant delays in processing. These delays led to trader complaints and operational inefficiencies, raising a red flag for leadership.
The bank needed a scalable, long-term solution to address these bottlenecks and ensure their systems could support future growth.
Our Approach
Caspian One assembled a specialist team of four experts, including a DevOps specialist, a test engineer, and two applications developers. The project began with a discovery and planning phase, where the team worked closely with the bank to define key requirements and milestones.
Initially, the goal was to compare two different OMS platforms, but as the project evolved, it became clear that the real challenge was capacity testing. Caspian One developed an automated, scalable testing framework, allowing the bank to:
Identify breaking points in their existing system
Ensure future OMS platforms could handle increasing trade volumes
Establish a proactive approach to stress testing
By adopting a continuous delivery model, the team built a flexible framework that not only addressed the immediate bottlenecks but also provided the bank with an in-house tool for future capacity testing.
The Outcome
Caspian One successfully delivered a fully developed capacity testing system that transformed the bank’s ability to manage trade processing. The client could now:
Track system capacity in real-time
Stress-test new platforms before deployment
Integrate capacity testing into broader asset management operations
The result was a long-term solution that didn’t just fix the current issue but also provided a future-proofed approach to managing operational risk and system scalability.
What This Meant for the Client:
Beyond resolving a critical operational bottleneck, Caspian One’s expertise equipped the bank with a sustainable, in-house capacity testing framework.
The project’s impact extends beyond trade processing - it ensures future resilience, enabling the bank to scale with confidence in an increasingly competitive market.
Key Details & Expertise
Keywords: Capacity Testing, OMS (Order Management System), Trade Processing Delays, DevOps, Automation Framework, Scalability, Stress Testing, EMS Emulator, Trade Volume Management, Operational Efficiency
Primary Areas of Expertise: Application Development, Infrastructure
Secondary Areas: Order Management Systems (OMS), Automation Development, Performance Monitoring, Stress Testing
Resource Roles: DevOps Engineer, Automation Engineer, QA Specialist, Applications Developer
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