Global Interdealer Broker

Client

Largest global interdealer broker

The Mandate

Manage the design and build of an electronic, securities lending trading platform that would be the firm’s entry into a new market. With its multi-million dollar budget, the project would be the client’s biggest new product launch to-date

Approach and Key Findings

Given the ambitious project timeline, a scaled agile framework was used to design and build the trading platform over a seven-month period with an approach to have a product launch version and then add product features in four version updates over a subsequent ten-month period. The initial sprint focused on identifying the “must-have” features for the product launch while placing the “nice-to-have” features into the book of work for future updates. The project team was a mix of two vendor teams and internal client resources.

Results

The trading platform went live on-time and on-budget, and helped the client capture a new stream of revenue.