Category: Trading Technology

From 3 January 2018, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) introduces new requirements for the granularity of transaction-event time-stamps. This means that under certain circumstances an application will ...Read More

It is quite common in the Caplin Integration Team to write Proof of Concepts (POC) where we usually write adapter code that we integrate with new systems. For my ...Read More

It was that time of the year again for UX designers and engineers to down tools from the usual day-to-day work items and spend 24 hours for the Caplin Hack Day. The theme this year was ‘Simplify and ...Read More

Periodically, the whole of the engineering team have a Hack Day at Caplin. Teams of up to four have 24 Hours straight to produce something new, innovative and cool. This time we decided to produce a new way of visualising ladders ...Read More

FX Tiles provide two main pieces of functionality, the ability to see live rates for a certain Currency Pair Volume Bands and the ability to Trade quickly. It is this first piece of functionality that most users will ...Read More

Repost from bladerunnerjs.org/ James Turner on 13 Dec 2013 In the last couple of years Node.js has exploded onto the web development stage. (I’m going to assume that you are familiar with Node.js. If you’re not, and you’re doing ...Read More

With the launch of the Apple Watch Caplin wanted to board the wearable tech bandwagon. We wanted to ask the questions why and how should a sell side Investment Bank want to use wearable tech? Let’s face ...Read More

Every six months, Caplin hold a Hack Day. Widely popular among staff, it is a time when developers can unleash their creativity for 24 hours and pursue personal ideas for fun and prizes. No business case need be made for an ...Read More

Last Friday saw another 24-hour coding-fest at Caplin HQ. All engineering staff were asked to form teams for a start on Thursday lunchtime and build something cool to demo on Friday afternoon. For a number of people furiously working on their ...Read More

We got an opportunity at Activate London 2014 organized by the Guardian, to learn about emerging, game changing trends in the financial domain.The core topic of discussion was around the changes happening in ...Read More