In today's competitive electronic trading environment, businesses seek continuous improvement in their trading performance, be it higher trading volumes, greater process efficiency or fastest market response - all at the lowest possible cost. It's Hatstand's job to deliver it.



Hatstand has expertise in electronic trading, not just in trading applications but in the IT strategy underlying their use and in the business vision that informs the IT strategy. This depth of expertise stems from the knowledge and experience of our senior consultants - something that singles us out from other IT consultancies.
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Taking ownership of your issues and resolving them
Hatstand consultancy is not about telling the client what's wrong, then leaving them to it. Nor do we add needless new processes to an already complicated change environment. Instead, we join the project team, sharing ownership, shouldering the risk, and partnering the client to identify solutions and deliver them successfully. We identify obsolete and legacy processes, admin and software and replace this with valuable integrated solutions to improve performance and reduce risk.

Top down or bottom up?
The consultancy partnership can take a 'top-down' approach, beginning with an analysis of the existing business or IT strategy, benchmarking it against best practice, and identifying new opportunities. Alternatively it can look at the trading operation from 'bottom-up' - for example executing a simple brief to review the process model for efficiency improvements. Hatstand consultancy is structured to offer a service that ranges from identifying quick-wins through to developing long-term solutions and strategy.

 • Latest, Best Practice Consultancy, including direct market access, trading systems HA review and inter-connectivity systems review
 • Development Consultancy, including requirements analysis, risk assessment for alternative options, implementation strategy and planning
 • Support Consultancy, including wholesale review of IT support strategies, development of new service level models and root cause analysis.


 
  Consultancy Offered
 • Business Process
   re-engineering
 • Change
   management
 • High Availability
 • High Performance
 • Benchmarking
 • Performance
   reviews
 • Root-cause
   analysis
 • Concept evaluation
 • Supplier evaluation
 • Risk control
 • Project recovery
 • Release control
 • Best practice review
 • Product Selection
   and
   implementation
 • Operational Risk
   minimisation
 • Data quality
   management

  Product Sheet
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