Solutions for Sell-Side Investment Banks, Algo Providers & DMA Traders
Sell-side Investment Banks/Brokers, Independent Algorithmic Providers, and firms with Direct Market Access manage millions of trades, thousands of sophisticated algorithms, and the world’s most complex trading architectures.
This complexity that leads firms to struggle to both properly model strategy execution in markets and confidently get product to market quickly because:
Firms must test a wide variety of scenarios to satisfy client/regulatory obligations
Firms typically lack the capability (people, process, technology and budget) to realistically meet testing obligations
Firms risk significant errors, fines, market disruptions, client impact and more as Regulators proactively enforce rules & demand better risk management controls
Firms often maintain fragmented, expensive, unrealistic & obsolete internal test solutions
Firms increasingly have clients looking for more algo customization and testing transparency
Quantum provides a single, consistent, global testing solution across regions, allowing clients to focus on core initiatives while we and our partners focus on delivering the best multi-asset testing and measurement platform on the market.
Quantum Use Cases for Sell-Side Firms, Algo Providers & DMA
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Legal Team and Compliance Team
Compelling Rationale:
Need for comprehensive regulatory testing
Need for regulatory oversight of regulatory test compliance
Need for a factual matrix organizing current and historical regulatory texts
Need to associate testing evidence to regulatory representation
Need for knowledge of usage of the regulatory interpretation and meta data in practice
Need to review T-1 Surveillance output
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Automated regulatory testing globally across regions on a single platform
Sign off on factual matrix, linking regulatory text to Quantum Reg tests
Ability to add metadata to tests
Sign off on entitlement levels and attestation for regulator matrix and all Reg tests
Ability to address trading patterns that may arise and suggest breaches of Regulatory and Market tests
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Venue Connectivity Team & FIX Connectivity Team
Compelling Rationale
Poor venue test systems today; Limited access / determinism creates conformance errors
Incapable of End2End 360° testing of the entire execution application stack
Key Quantum Functionality:
24/7, multiple simultaneous instances
Enables new and old venue testing (A/B splits)
Easily creates non-functional scenarios & error behaviours
For FIX testing, Quantum offers more realistic venues than current onboarding software providers
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Pre conformance testing - Venue and FIX
Testing functional internal changes
Testing functional upstream changes
Testing functional exchange side changes
Stress testing
Operational scenario testing
Team executive signoff
Client Onboarding Team
Compelling Rationale:
Client connectivity with the full stack, including defensive system rules
Realistic client experience, by market and by flow. The full set of markets allows the client to get representative testing
E2E allows the client to test permutations of Algo, SOR and other custom tags, with full market(s) interactivity
Internal configuration and custom/turn around tag testing
Non-functional testing / stress testing (both internal/to client)
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Testing of functional client onboarding system changes
Testing of functional changes on the buyside customer systems
Testing due to downstream changes (integration testing)
Stress testing
Operational scenario testing
Security testing
Team executive signoff
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Market Data Team
Compelling Rationale:
Venue test solutions often poor, with Limited access / determinism allowing conformance errors
Market data availability is often a blocker for Unit and End2End testing
It can be difficult & costly to develop solutions internally
Key Quantum Functionality:
Quantum allows multiple simultaneous instances (if ticker plant allows)
Quantum enables new and old venue testing - A/B split
Quantum easily creates non-functional scenarios & error behaviours
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Pre conformance testing with venue and vendor
Market data quality testing
Testing connections due to internal market data ticker plant changes
Testing due to downstream changes (integration testing)
Stress testing
Operational scenario testing
Security testing
Team executive sign off
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SOR and OMS Teams
Compelling Rationale:
SOR/OMS interfaces at investment banks are typically proprietary, with the necessary bespoke development delivered by Quantum’s Partners
Quantum can also work with trading technology providers to develop integration packages for their clients
Key Quantum Functionality:
Quantum offers multiple interactive venues, simultaneous testing instances, and the realism, determinism, venue routing and range of order types required by sophisticated clients
Quantum provides easily configurable market data scenarios, tuned to each client and each user
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Optimization testing
Testing of functional SOR/OMS changes
Testing of functional upstream changes (integration testing)
Testing of functional downstream changes (integration testing)
Stress testing
Operational scenario testing
Team executive signoff
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Algo Development Teams
Need to be able to develop and implement algos quickly and robustly against market infrastructure
Need to ensure that algos perform and behave across a range of market scenarios
Need to stress their algo performance against market conditions
Need detailed feedback from the market as to performance and regulatory criteria prior to algo release
Key Quantum Functionality:
Quantum offers multiple interactive venues, simultaneous testing instances, and the realism, determinism, venue routing and range of order types required by sophisticated clients
Quantum provides easily configurable market data scenarios, tuned to each client and each user
Quantum’s proprietary Algo Container allows bypassing of internal full trading stack to receive orders and send market data
Quantum users can Iterate algorithm parameters in parallel via multiple simultaneous instances
Quantum provides on-demand, earlier access to market data scenarios, both historical and synthetic
Speed algo to market by moving model validation & compliance checks upstream
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Optimization testing
Testing of functional SOR/OMS changes
Testing of functional upstream changes (integration testing)
Testing of functional downstream changes (integration testing)
Stress testing
Operational scenario testing
Team executive signoff
Quant Development Team
Compelling Rationale:
Need to be able to test and demonstrate the impact on the market of their strategy hypotheses and development
Need to be able to measure different execution outcomes and execution profiles in complex markets and across different market scenarios
Need to be able to provide evidence of the market impact created through their strategies and ensure that they didn’t create market disruption through the implementation of those strategies
Key Quantum Functionality:
Quantum offers multiple interactive venues, simultaneous testing instances, and the realism, determinism, venue routing and range of order types required by sophisticated clients
Quantum provides easily configurable market data scenarios, tuned to each client and each user
Quantum offers each user the ability to configure, customize, and save multiple execution impact scenarios
Quant users can Iterate algorithm parameters in parallel via multiple simultaneous instances
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Market signal research with simultaneous testing instances
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Infrastructure Teams
Compelling Rationale:
Need for testing environments that are truly representative of real global trading ecosystem
Need for key infrastructure testing for vendor systems (e.g. Market data, connectivity)
Need for key internal testing for external client configurations, external exchange connections and market data systems
Need to replay of production issues in a safe environment which may have interacted with infrastructure specifically
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Scenario testing
Capacity planning / testing
Connectivity testing
Team executive signoff
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Product Support Team
Compelling Rationale:
Need for Representative environments with the full stack, including end to end external connectivity, which can be used to debug production support investigations.
Control points and gates for older systems as part of a repeatable automated test cyle de-
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Scenario testing
Incident triage - replaying previous data to understand live & historic issues in an easy, expedient way
Team executive signoff
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Model Validation Team and Market Risk Team
Compelling Rationale:
Need for a full system stack test with evidence of business flow testing, allowing immediate internal investigation for compliance and regulatory adherence
Need to easily generate quality defensive audits prior to regulator investigations
Need ability to quickly act on findings and track/enforce remediation or required actions
Use Cases delivered by Quantum:
Evidence of successful regional and local reg tests
Digitally signed and dated evidence of tests before release
Sign off on validity of Quantum Reg tests
Ability to create custom Reg tests
Validation that all pertinent that all regulatory test were run as expected
Team executive signoff