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All sectors of the financial services industry are facing similar challenges: how to process more transactions and information faster -- and at a lower cost, and how to quickly bring to market new products and services.

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Capital Markets

The low-latency arms race is on.

Exponential growth in trading volumes, automated trading, increased regulatory requirements, straight-through processing, and direct market access demand capital markets applications that deliver sub-millisecond response times, seamless fail-over, and unlimited scalability. The challenge is that existing architectures, such as tier-based systems utilizing J2EE application severs, are not equipped to deliver the required levels of performance, scalability, and reliability. As a result, many firms end up spending enormous amounts of time, effort and money on building home-grown application infrastructure.

There is a better way.

The GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) provides a complete middleware stack for building scalable applications with extreme low-latency and high-availability, so that your company can focus on its unique competitive advantage. By using GigaSpaces XAP, capital markets firms can reduce application development costs and shorten time-to-market of new products and services.

GigaSpaces customers such as Lehman Brothers, NYSE, Dow Jones, Societe Generale, Commerzbank, Monte Paschi and others are using GigaSpaces for:

  • High-volume extreme transaction processing (XTP) applications, such as algorithmic trading and market data distribution
  • Real-time analytics and calculation systems, such as value-at-risk, pricing, P&L, surveillance and compliance
  • Monte Carlo simulations
  • Geographically distributed applications, such as global order books
  • Large-volume data mining applications requiring analysis across many terabytes of data, such as risk and portfolio analysis
  • Large-scale heterogeneous environments that must comply with industry and government regulations

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Retail Banking & Finance

Retail banking and finance companies are facing an increasingly competitive market, with more demanding regulations and a growing number of transactions. In addition, these companies want to provide consumers and businesses with better access to their accounts and financial information via the Internet. The result is a need to build scalable applications that allow the business to grow on-demand, without increasing costs.

GigaSpaces customers, such as Webster Bank, Blackhawk and some of the world's retail banks have deployed GigaSpaces' products to increase the scalability and performance of their mission critical applications, including SWIFT transaction processing, credit card processing, gift card processing, e-banking portals and more.

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