The professionals at Financial Technology Laboratories have a broad range of experience and knowledge in the fixed income technology industry.
Analytics Integration
- Our consultants can greatly accelerate the integration of FTL analytics products into your existing applications or systems.
- Quickly and accurately develop custom calculations and analytics according to your needs.
Contract Negotiation
- Extensive experience in negotiating a broad range of relationships and vendor agreements.
- In-depth knowledge of the industry participants and their strengths and weaknesses.
- RFI / RFP authoring and process management.
- Ability to leverage existing, ongoing industry relationships to quickly and efficiently achieve ‘win-win’ agreements.
Project Management
- Project managers certified as Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.
- Ongoing professional development in areas such as managing virtual teams and best practices.
- Many years of practical project management experience in both consulting and corporate environments.
Software Design
- FTL favors a user-centered and agile design methodology with an emphasis on iterative prototyping and early review instead of the traditional ‘waterfall’ lifecycle approach.
- Our professionals can work with your stakeholders to define business objectives, elicit requirements, assess needs, set scope, and identify constraints before developing an optimal design that meets your business, technology, and operational requirements.
- Our knowledge of software architecture allows us to advise you on the most appropriate hardware and software components and architecture design for your project.
Software Development
- Extensive experience developing components and applications for the fixed income market using a wide range of software technologies – installed application and web-based.
- Expert knowledge of Java, C++, J#, and C# supporting delivery on both Windows- and Unix-based enterprise architectures.
- Database design, application development, and integration with vendors including Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, MySQL.
- User-interface design, development, and implementation using XML/XSLT/CSS, AJAX, JSF, Swing, and others.
System Integration
- Broad experience in system integration using both proprietary and industry-standard protocols such as SOAP, Web services, RMI, RSS, XML, FIX and FIXML.
- Integration of disparate vendor service using various single sign-on, encryption, and authentication technologies.
