Case Study

Deutsche Numis Invests in interop.io to Streamline Trading

The Company

Deutsche Numis is an international investment bank that partners with the most ambitious companies and investors, offering strategic advice, unique insights and connectivity to the capital markets. Already a leader in the UK market, Deutsche Numis is the adviser of choice for listed companies, including one fifth of the FTSE 350 index, with an average market capitalization of £1.4bn, and has acted on the most UK IPOs over the past decade.

Since 2016, Deutsche Numis has diversified its strategy to grow its UK M&A franchise, expand internationally and develop its private markets business, which combined now accounts for almost half of investment banking revenues.

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The Challenge: Integrating RSP and OEMS Applications

The market-making desk at Deutsche Numis wanted to improve their retail service provider (RSP) offering and remain competitive in the markets against their peers. To do that they sought to replace one RSP application with another (Infront) but wanted the new RSP application to work seamlessly with their main OEMS (Fidessa).

This is all about enabling a best of breed system architecture that enables our staff to have the best possible tools for the job. In turn, we will be able to operate even more efficiently and continue to exceed for our clients and the business as a whole.”

— Head of Technology and Transformation

Vendor Selection: Expertise in Fidessa Integration

While Deutsche Numis was already familiar with desktop interoperability, they needed a vendor with deep technical expertise in Fidessa integration. After independently reaching out to interop.io, the team was quickly convinced by both the platform capabilities and interop.io’s proven experience with Fidessa workflows.

The Solution: Rapid Integration with Fidessa and Infront

Interop.io delivered a solution that seamlessly connected Fidessa and Infront, enabling real-time synchronization of instrument codes using tracking groups and color channels.

As a result, end users can now:

Work with both platforms in a unified desktop environment
Quote more competitively on the RSP network
Switch tools without losing context or duplicating work

Most impressively, the integration was delivered in just five days.

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Future Plans

The bank’s vision is to have a best-of-breed approach to their trading technology strategy and interop.io makes this happen. Future plans include extending workflow integration to other applications across the front office such as Singletrack, Symphony, Qliksense and Bloomberg as well as bringing in intra-firm notification capabilities.