Our focus at five one two is blending robust enterprise grade web-based software with creative and usability excellence for all of our clients, across industry sectors. Additionally for financial markets clients we are able to combine our skills in e-commerce, mobile and software with specific in-depth experience of front office technology for electronic trading, e-commerce portals, pricing, risk, analytics and decision support systems.
Clients of five one two, whether they are capital markets buy or sell-side institutions or solutions providers such as Exchanges or Market Data Providers, benefit from a strong technology background coupled with our creative flare and exceptional user experience (UX). It’s clear there are plenty of technology vendors targeting this sector; how many deliver useable, innovative and effective applications? Put us to the test.
Our specialism is the design, development and support of rich internet applications delivering e-commerce single dealer portals, e-trading, real-time analytics (pricing) and decision support.
A particular growth area is the development of single dealer platforms across asset classes with the consolidation of multiple single dealer portals. The benefits are numerous but include increased deal-flow due to more targeted offerings; improved integration between market makers and sales traders that are typically distributed across the organisation; improved margins via more effective per-client pricing; stronger client relationships because of tailored and improved user experience.
As with all our solutions, our user centred design approach is at the heart of our financial market solutions. Keeping the focus on the user throughout ensures that the solution creates the ideal user experience and can accordingly deliver the best return for you, whether that's in sales trading efficiencies, optimal targeted pricing, knowledge management or wherever the system is designed to improve your business.
Our real world experience of delivering complex front office trading systems ensures all of our software is robust, resilient and highly scalable - as you would expect within this demanding and ever evolving environment.
Our staff offer 15 years of experience working in front office trading roles, with a number of industry awards for excellence. Notable awards and experience include:
- Euromoney ‘Best Investment Bank on the Internet’ (UBS, 2002/2003)
- Euromoney ‘Best Convertibles Website’ (UBS, 2005)
- Front to back project delivery of a low latency options market making platform [equity derivatives]; including pricing and exchange connectivity (Citigroup Capital Markets, 2008)
- Web based pricing and analytics tool for decision support and real-time what-if scenarios for Equity Derivative products, including research data, drill-downs, graphing and prospectus/product data downloads. (UBS, 2004-2006)
- Various e-commerce / e-trading initiatives including Bloomberg click-to-trade Convertible Bond products using ION MarketView platform. (UBS, 2006)
- Early exploiters of streaming prices to the web using Caplin technology. (UBS, 2003)
We are able to work in conjunction with internal teams or in an outsourced capacity. We work across the whole project lifecycle, providing value at each stage from inception and requirements gathering, through to product delivery and ongoing support and maintenance; including 24x7 hosting SLAs.
If you want to see some of our recent work then have a look through our portfolio. If you want to see how we can help you with your business or to see some more specific case studies then please get in touch.