Itsumo’s Capital Markets Center of Excellence (CMCE) serves our clients by providing a set of agile best practices solution skill sets that have evolved out of both domestic and international client engagements. We are typically hired by our clients to build or enhance trading or trade related systems as well as portfolio management systems.

Our team comprises infrastructure, application and management experts who have extensive domain experience coupled with current third party product expertise. Our consultants have worked on a wide spectrum of trading systems ranging from order processing systems to arbitrage trading, from real time market data to hand held exchange floor systems. They have a thorough competency in FIX and STP/T+1 related solutions. Examples of our trading platform expertise are

• reference data streamlining and normalization from a risk management    perspective
• architecture modeling and selection for business processes and high-volume    STP operations such as market data distribution, order management, and    real- time compliance integration
• GAP analysis on ability of internal systems to achieve STP and prioritize    activities
• conduct build vs. buy analysis – including vendor selection for pre and post    trade processing technology components
• build interfaces to trade processing and trade matching entities
• develop tools to enable better exception handling
• message scalability testing with real-world throughput verified on real-world    tools
• web services design and development for internal integration frameworks
• concentration and routing services for straight-through distributed operations    with VMUs and other third-party providers using SWIFT and other networks    linking the world’s financial institutions.

Additionally, Itsumo offers portfolio and related expertise that even addresses issues of current portfolio management of Banks, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, and Fund of Funds. Itsumo offers deep domain and technology expertise to facilitate a fully integrated risk management framework with exceptional time-to-market speed. Itsumo’s solutions encompass vendor systems, reporting/risk analysis systems, activity costing, asset allocation, portfolio optimization and predictive analytics expertise. Itsumo leverages internal skill sets and industry alliances, where needed, to create real-time or near real-time transparency into the organization area as the client defines.

Our expert understanding of buy-side and sell-side operations in conjunction with alliances among leading technology services providers, allow us an unparalleled ability to collaborate with leading technology companies to implement best-of-breed technology at scale. This is a major reason that global firms trust Itsumo to achieve multi-enterprise and cross-border integration.