Trading Turret and Trading Floor Strategy

CAS has many years of exposure to financial and energy trading floor services. In the 1980’s, CAS worked during a successful 6 year period at the London Stock Exchange, where a number of high profile and project related assignments were carried out. These were primarily focused around the market floor and associated services to member firms, and design, supply and installation of trading turrets.

CAS has demonstrated its ability to focus on the business aspects of trading floor operations for a number of world leading Energy trading companies, where CAS has successfully:

• developed the strategy for and implemented trading floor user reviews for many global companies with European offices based in London
• designed, managed and implemented trading services and user review for large trading floor complexes in Houston, Chicago and Calgary, Canada.

The key difference between the CAS trading floor service and the competition is to concentrate on the client’s business and use the resulting profile to recommend, design and project manage the communication technologies and systems that trading floors demand.

The trading systems that CAS has been actively involved with include all areas of voice, data and information services. Examples are:

Trading Accommodation:

• Data and Telecoms centre design
• Trading floor environmental planning
• Client migration planning and management
• Capacity planning

Trading Furniture Design:

• Trading desks
• Space and access planning
• Cabling design and management
• Desktop connectivity

Voice Systems:

• IPC Tradenet MX, Alliance MX and IQMX
• BT Syntegra, ITS and modular developments of new products
• Ericsson MD110 – FS and Trading Application systems
• Siemens Hicom 300 trader system
• Hitachi Dealing system
• Various PBX systems (eg. Avaya Definity, Ericsson MD110, Nortel Meridian)

Voice Recording:

• NICE analogue/digital ranges
• Eyretel Mediastore and development of unique total/selective recording
• Racal Wordnet, Tienna and Renaissance software

Intercom Systems:

• Stentofon range, including Alphacomm and modern developments
• Speakerbus
• Purple Voice IP Intercom
• Ring

Market Data:

• Reuters
• Topic, Seaq and CRS
• Bloomberg

Data Systems and Infrastructure

• Microsoft operating systems
• Microsoft networks
• Hardware assessment and procurement
• Redundancy planning for trading services
• Local area network design and implementation
• Structured cabling scheme design for the trading environment

Audio-Visual:

• Video-conferencing rooms
• Desktop Videoconferencing systems
• Avistar
• Polycom / Polyspan
• Integration with trading turrets/dealer board systems
• Plasma displays
• Streaming media
• Wall board displays
• Application Software and Integration:

Application, integration change control

• Various in-house and market available software
• CTI solutions development based on user requirements
• Voice-over IP developments
• Integration testing between PBX and trading turrets/dealer board systems, using Q-Sig, MCDN and DPNSS
• Compliance testing of all integrated systems to pre-defined criteria

CAS has a wealth of experience in designing and producing tender documents and evaluating responses for all voice and information service systems. CAS will carry out contract negotiation for clients and undertake the project management either as “the lead” manager and team or working alongside a client’s in-house staff.

Examples of projects undertaken by CAS in the trading arena may be viewed in our case study archives.