Financial markets data, technology, and standards.
We help banks, funds, and vendors model their products correctly, move trade data cleanly through post-trade, and report it in a way that holds up under scrutiny.
Four things, done properly
Product & data modelling
Representing products and lifecycle events in CDM and FpML so every downstream system agrees on what a trade actually is.
Post-trade workflow
Confirmation, clearing, settlement, and lifecycle events: mapping what you have today, designing what you need next.
Regulatory reporting
EMIR, MiFIR/MiFID II, and Dodd-Frank. Rule logic, field-level lineage and reconciliation that survives a regulator's questions.
Standards adoption
ISDA DRR rollouts and CDM migrations, including the unglamorous integration work that makes a standard real.
The detail behind the strapline
Regulatory regimes
- EMIR and EMIR Refit
- MiFIR / MiFID II
- Dodd-Frank (CFTC Parts 43/45/46 and SEC SBSR)
- SFTR
- REMIT
- UK EMIR
- ASIC, MAS, JFSA, and HKMA reporting rewrites
- Canadian CSA reporting
- Money markets reporting (UK & EU)
- Derivatives reporting frameworks in developing markets (Bank of Israel, South Africa)
- CPMI-IOSCO global data harmonisation
Data standards & models
- FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM)
- ISDA Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR)
- FpML
- ISO 20022
- Critical Data Elements (CDE)
- UPI, UTI, LEI, and OTC ISIN
- ISDA product taxonomies and definitions
- Machine-readable and executable regulation
Market infrastructure & lifecycle
- Trade capture and risk systems for complex derivatives — booking models across the major cross-asset platforms and how they drive downstream operations
- Trade repositories (DTCC GTR, Regis-TR)
- The ANNA DSB
- Electronic confirmation and matching (MarkitWire, DTCC)
- Clearing and CCP workflows
- Collateral and the ISDA CSA
- Post-trade lifecycle events, from execution to termination
Emerging technology & open source
- Open-source standards and governance (FINOS / Linux Foundation)
- Smart contracts and DLT
- Tokenisation and digital assets
- AI in regulatory compliance
- Data governance and digitisation strategy
Practitioners, not a panel of reviewers
Twenty years in financial markets since 2006 — inside global banks, at an industry standards body, and more recently with the organisations building the next generation of market infrastructure. Engineering first, finance second: electronic and computer engineering, then signal processing, then mathematical trading and finance.
Small on purpose. You work directly with the person who has done this before, not a pyramid of juniors learning on your budget. Engagements run from a short diagnostic — where does your data actually break — through to sitting inside the delivery team until the thing works.
Got a data or reporting problem you'd rather not inherit again?
Send a note with the shape of it. You'll get a real reply, not a brochure.
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