Market Data Platforms & Desktops

Citihub can help you review, architect and formulate new strategies for your market data management and messaging platform. We have years of experience assisting market data teams deliver against their business’s objectives; by reducing costs, improving performance, and ironing out operational and service issues. Be it running cost curtailment programs, rolling out desktop upgrade programs or servicing the growing number of application developers, Citihub can make a difference.

Service availability assessment
This invaluable service acts as a short, sharp independent assessment to review your platform, its supporting infrastructure and processes. This will give you confidence that your system will remain stable and able to sustain market data update rates under peak conditions.

>> Availability and performance review of market data infrastructure (Case Study)
 

A market data platform strategy to improve your agility
As vendors market data platforms and associated APIs mature, clients find themselves with a multitude of legacy components, protocols and interfaces performing very similar functions. This is not only costly to manage, but also makes it difficult to transform to meet new business requirements. Our specialists can help you define a market data strategy, which not only meets today’s business demands, but provides the flexibility to handle future data growth, venues and data types. Our clients capitalize on Citihub’s expertise to either drive a complete platform re-architecture/refresh, or simply abstracting and obsolescing legacy products.

>> Market data strategy (Case Study)
>> IMD Direct Feed report (Commentary)
>> Hosting architecture for eTrading application suite (Case Study)
 

Market data platform and desktop migrations
These programs can be large and complex due to multiple interdependencies. Citihub has extensive experience in mobilizing and delivering these programs. We’ve lead some of the biggest global market data platform migrations, including TIB and Triarch to RMDS, RMDS 5 to 6 and RMDS to Wombat.

Application integration
The true benefit of your market data investment is limited to the functionality that is leveraged within the business implementation i.e. how the APIs have been utilized. We can thoroughly review your use of APIs, platforms and data sources, identify best practice and recommend solutions for better performance and vendor abstraction.

Efficiency and cost curtailment
Citihub reduces your market data spend by running a program to realize supply chain, resource, platform, desktop and application efficiencies. By integrating usage, profiling, entitlement and inventory data we generate reports to give better cost transparency and construct cost curtailment models.