TS-Associates unveils new organisation: expansion in people, new offices, reflect increase in e-business
« Back to main newsLondon, July 10, 2000: Trading Systems Associates, a leading consulting company specializing in providing solutions to complex financial markets technology problems, today unveiled a new corporate organization designed to support its customers as they ramp up their e-business initiatives.
Along with the new organization, which focuses on three well-defined business segments, TS Associates also inaugurated its new office suite in the City of London, and highlighted continuing staff expansion and recent project assignments.
Said Ian Hobson, chairman of TS Associates: "All of the major financial markets participants are transforming their businesses to embrace the business models and technologies of the new economy, and all are seeking an edge in the utility of their systems and speed of deployment. TS Associates provides that edge - overcoming the complex issues associated with the adoption of leading edge technologies, and ensuring that the technologies deployed will underpin the true business needs of the new trading world."
To address the business needs of its major customers, especially as they migrate their businesses to embrace Internet technologies and e-commerce, TS Associates has aligned its business to focus in three key areas:
- High Performance Network Infrastructure
This practice is headed by Matt Campbell, and focuses on deploying scalable secure distributed processing systems, employing IP multicast and other advanced networking technologies.
- Financial Applications Integration
Headed by Nick Dutton, this practice specializes in the integration of e-commerce and financial applications with financial content and messaging middleware.
- Product Development and Professional Services
Led by Henry Young, the product development division has introduced a range of shrink-wrapped products as solutions for: IP multicast benchmarking and profiling, network quality of service, integration of financial content into Web services and applications, TIB/RV integrity assurance and market data resource entitlement management.
All three divisions will be based at TS Associates' new offices in the City, which became operational today. The offices will house a rapidly increasing number of product development, consulting, management and support staff. A total of 14 staff is expected to be on board by the end of July.
TS Associates expects to make further staff hires throughout the year, as it continues to deliver its consulting services to continental Europe and the USA.
Recent projects undertaken by TS Associates include:
- For a major Swiss bank, design of an Internet-based market data infrastructure for internal and Web/wireless services.
- Project management of a foreign exchange e-commerce system for a leading Dutch bank.
- Advising a blue chip investment bank on applications migration from a Reuters Triarch to a TIBCO platform.
- Re-engineering the client connectivity functions of a pan-European stock exchange, using IP multicast technology.
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