Our clients know our staff will bring expert knowledge as well as structured processes, allowing them to accelerate their system delivery, streamline their business processes, and further develop their in-house capabilities and experience.
Fentexa understands the financial markets and we recognise where we can truly add value. We also understand that every client has different requirements, pain points, architecture, and ways of thinking and working.
Our approach is to take a long-term view with our clients, recognising the need to share our insight, knowledge, and experience and to operate as a partner, rather than a supplier.
We offer advisory services in the following areas:
Pre-study
- Project feasibility studies – assisting in the initial analysis of prospective projects
- Conducting workshops to assist both IT and the business, with a particular activity (drawing on our extensive industry experience with both finance and trading system implementations)
- Initial preparation of upgrade activities; including budget forecasting, project roadmap generation, and identifying possible team constituents
Gap Analysis
- Domain expertise in the generation of Technical and Functional gap analysis for any trading system initiatives; large or small
- Bringing in industry best practices for trading system programmes from the wealth of our experience
- Identification of the critical activities that often act as project blockers and work towards their alleviation and risk mitigation
Performance Review and Optimisation
- Assistance in the identification of potential performance blockers, early enough to take remedial action
- Providing due-diligence and investigative work with existing production configurations and the ‘new world’ to be set up with new trading system implementations
- System health checks
- Make recommendations around industry best practices
Vendor Selection
- Define your requirements
- Prepare your RFI/RFP in a way that would be easy to understand ensuring comparable answers between vendors
- Lead the selection process through the different steps
- Take an active role during negotiations
