Hatstand began with a specific focus on the electronic trading environment and has subsequently extended its consultancy to wider financial services IT, encompassing regulatory practice, project management, service management and credit derivatives. In 2006, these specialisms were consolidated into four main business practices:

• Dedicated to IT technical support, testing,    business analysis and    development trainees for financial    organisations  • High quality proven selection process  • Flexibility to exchange underperforming    resources  • Option to convert 50% to permanent staff    at no cost at the end of the scheme  • Off headcount consultancy cost  • Client and Hatstand training and mentoring	• Post MiFID Gap & Impact Analysis  • Dark Pool Aggregation  • Multi-Trading venue Connectivity  • Smart Order Routing Development  • Transaction Cost Analysis
• Project Management  • Programme Management  • PMO  • Service Management	• Consultancy  • Development  • Support  • Direct exchange Link Gateway - Fedora

Hatstand's affiliate, Footstool provides specialist IT contract resources and permanent IT search and selection services for those clients with specific resource requirements.