IT Finance
*IT And Business Expertise In The Service Of Market Finance CAPFI Technology showcases the group’s traditional skills in finance. We support our customers in developing projects from scratch (Front to Back Office), IS mergers, implementing software packages, etc.
Our Professions & Services
Software craftsmen experienced in agile methods or project managers specialised in finance, CAPFI’s Technology consultants combine knowledge in IT, maths & finance to offer you the most reliable and efficient service.
SOFTWARE CRAFTSMANSHIP
Raising development to the level of veritable craftsmanship, excellence, and customisation to reach the two-fold goal of achieving quality and reducing costs.
- Test Driven Development
- Pair Programming
- Simple Design
- Clean Code
- Refactoring
- Stacks Technologies
- Java, JEE or CORE
- NET (C# or ASP)
- C++11, C++14, C++17
- Javascript (AngularJS, Node.JS, Jquert), HTML, CSS, PHP
- Python, Haskell, F#
- Tools
- Jira, Git/Mercurial, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Redmine…and all the tools derived from our technology monitoring and recommended by our LAB.
METHODS
Our project methodology offering brings together the following elements from the Agile manifesto:
- eXtreme Programming: Predominance of technical practices such as continuous delivery and test-driven development (TDD).
- Scrum: Predominance of process management practices (sprint, roles, etc.)
- Kanban: Predominance of workflow management practices (limiting the number of tasks at each step)
MARKET FINANCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
From tools for receiving market data to accounting, we support you throughout the front-side to accounting transaction-processing chain. Our expertise extends to the evaluation of financial instruments and market, compensation, and operational risk analysis.
We provide assistance, among others, in the following areas:
- Front: market connectivity, placing orders, automatic trading, pricers
- Middle: booking tools, control, valuation, securities/financial instruments/third-party repositories
- Back: payment and delivery, confirmation, accounting
- Risks: markets/rates, compensation, lending, operational, liquidity
- Regulatory: MIFID 2, Basel III, EMIR, FRTB, SOLVENCY2 or Dodd-Frank Act.
- Software packages: MUREX, Dimension, Sophis, Summit, Calypso, Kondor+
Our strong financial-engineering expertise allows us to deliver pricing models and tools to help traders and risk managers make better decisions.
Our “IT Quant” teams and commandos directly translate research models into financial algorithms to be tested and used directly by business teams.
Financial mathematics is translated into the information system using the latest market-proven practices for optimising calculations and performing load balancing on server farms or GPU cards, for example.
The types of work we handle:
- IT Quant
- Commando
The technologies frequently used are:
- Excel/VBA (fast development)
- C++, C#, JAVA
BUSINESS AND IT SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS
Implementing market regulations is a serious challenge for our clients. With the help of its consultants’ functional and methodological expertise, CAPFI has the expertise needed to implement regulations such as MIFID2, FRTB, UCITS, BCBS, Basel III, and Solvency 2.
HELPING IT ACHIEVE AGILE TRANSFORMATIONS
CAPFI offers several solutions for achieving Agile transformations. This offering is intended for customers using the traditional V – or waterfall – cycle who wish to make the switch to more modern methodologies (Agile/Scrum/Kanban).
We are also able to coach IT and business departments that have already begun their agile transformation and who are looking for support from experts.
BENCHMARKING SOFTWARE SUITES
CAPFI’s excellent knowledge of the publishers on the market has allowed it to develop expertise in selecting software packages for the Corporate and Investment Banking and Asset Management industries.
We support our clients in choosing their Front/Middle/Back/Accounting/Risk software solutions and offer a tried and tested methodology for auditing existing software and selecting software packages such as MUREX, Dimension, Sophis, Summit, Calypso, and Kondor +.
TECHNICAL APPLICATION AUDIT
CAPFI relies on its technical architects and senior developers specialised in C#, JAVA, C++, and SQL/PLSQL to carry out technical audits for its clients, which can meet application security and technical redesign needs or fix unresolved performance issues. These audits can last anywhere from a few days to several months.
Our Achievement
A multithreaded development project distributed onto computational grids (symphony) in real time:
- Creation of computation engines in C#, WCF
- GUI design and development in WPF
Digital: Conception and prototyping of a private mobisocial:
- Multi-platform (Windows Phone; Android; IOS – mobile and tablet) “TOP 200” POC
- Front: HTML5/CSS/JS + AngularJS + REST + PhoneGap
- Back: Node.js / MongoDB
Market Finance Core Business: rewriting a Multi-Core architecture with Agile methodology in C ++ 11/14. The goal is to address issues in terms of volume, latency, and scalability.
- Hadoop/Apache Stack/KFK/Hbase back end
- A Linux environment and SolarFlare TCP, UDP, and FPGA Multicast socket technology.
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Coffees per year
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