“We were very impressed, not only with AppLabs’ expertise and methodology, but also their willingness to work in partnership towards the most successful outcome possible.”
The World's Largest Software Testing and Quality
Management Company
Capital Markets
While the increasing integration of the world's capital markets is a cause of investor excitement it is also as much a cause for concern.
AppLabs understands that like most industries Capital Markets have their own share of business and technology challenges. What makes this industry stand apart is the fact that most of the business and technological challenges if not addressed, sooner or later transform themselves into risks.
Business challenges to name a few include, new and enhanced regulations, ever increasing transaction volumes, and ever reducing settlement cycle time. Today, for capital markets, transparency is no longer a mere requirement it is mandatory add to this growing asset class for trading- equities, commodities, derivatives, including debt instruments – over multiple channels.
On the technology front, silos present the most daunting challenge. Layered architecture to support multiple business functions – trading, clearing & settlement, and depository services make the capital market a complicated place as far as technology is concerned. Interaction of multiple systems through several interfaces and gateways and integrations between different modules (Front, Middle and Back office functions) don’t seem to help either.
Technology challenges also include enhancing functionality coverage with customizations to standard products, complexity of trading scenarios that reflect real time trading, migration to a new application, Alternate Trading Systems, and Straight-Through-Processing.
If left unattended the business and technology challenges in capital markets are nothing but risks in the making. For instance not having these challenges addressed on time and in full could lead to non-compliance to regulatory diktat of the region, IT systems losing robustness and reliability, loss of business and customers due to downtime, non-compatibility to other systems, and last but not the least risk of entire system failure.
AppLabs offers a three dimensional expertise approach to address the business and technological challenges facing capital markets from a testing perspective.
Our approach has provided tangible benefits to our customers across the globe.
To find out more about our services, write to us at info@applabs.com
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