The client, a pre-revenue fin-tech payments and mobile commerce start-up acquired the technology assets from another firm and wished to bring a new offering to market in the mobile commerce and payments space within a 9 month timeframe. The assets acquired, however, were limited by a number of architectural short-comings.
The competitive market place for providers of proximity and colocation data centres has helped lower costs and offer an attractive proposition to banks to locate close to these services and benefit from lower latency.
The client received a new platform tailored specifically to its needs and designed in conjunction with the expert advice and experience of GreySpark.
The client was running an obsolete FX trading platform that could not be updated or extended due to lack of source code. The client wanted to design a new scalable and robust platform from scratch which would support low latency trading. The source code would be fully owned by the client.
Following a review in latency performance, the client wanted to conduct a further investigation into low latency firewalls, switches and NICs, used in e Trading colocation scenarios.
