Feature Story

By Kat Rollin

June 3, 2008 — The foreign exchange (FX) landscape is rapidly changing. Capital is moving between countries at an explosive rate. Technological advances in electronic trading reduce processing costs, enabling smaller banks and firms to participate in foreign exchange trading — increasing the number of participants in the market and lowering margins. Increased efficiency from algorithmic trading methods can quickly increase volumes to unmanageable levels. Corporate governance regulations demand more reporting and greater transparency. And customers demand more services and products. Wall Street Systems, together with Sun, offers an FX trading solution that enables firms to manage huge transaction volumes, provide outstanding customer service, minimize costs, and meet regulatory requirements — while increasing profits and gaining a competitive position in the FX market.

Real-Time Trade Processing Solutions

Wallstreet FX software from Wall Street Systems provides high-performance, real-time trade processing solutions for currency management. Wallstreet FX empowers your business with a sophisticated integrated platform to support high volume trade processing and volume growth. It enables you to substantially drive down transaction costs as volumes soar and margins narrow. Wallstreet FX provides tools to help you expand revenue opportunities, while providing full transparency and value added services to your customers. Alerts and monitoring tools are built in for management and compliance.

To help you discover how Wallstreet FX and Sun can help you adapt to the changing FX landscape, you can contact Wall Street Systems to schedule an evaluation of your environment and requirements. If your environment is suitable for Wallstreet FX, Wall Street Systems can build a solution model on Sun platforms to give you an opportunity to fully evaluate the solution and see the benefits first hand in real-time or using artificial numbers in a real time scenario.

Sheer Horsepower from Sun

During these evaluations, Wall Street Systems has found that many institutions need to replace legacy systems and consolidate resources in order to create standard processes and controls, and rein in costs. Sun's extremely flexible, scalable servers provide the horsepower necessary to consolidate and integrate FX applications. The Sun SPARC Enterprise servers, powered by up to 64 dual core SPARC64 VI processors and up to 24 Dynamic Domains and thousands of Solaris Containers enable massive consolidation, and provide the scalability and compute brawn to handle the explosive volume of FX transactions.

Sun and Wall Street Systems understand that every FX environment and workload is unique. In order to squeeze as much performance and efficiency out of the applications and systems as possible, both companies work together, using Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) in the Solaris 10 Operating System, to pinpoint areas where applications can be optimized or enhanced. Using DTrace in a test scenario enabled Sun and Wall Street Systems engineers to optimally tune the test environment to achieve the highest Wallstreet FX performance level seen to date. Sun and Wall Street Systems can also work with your IT staff to tune your live production environment for optimal performance — which could give you an advantage over your competition and increase your return on investment.

Sun and Wall Street Systems

Wall Street System's software is used by leading financial organizations around the world on the popular Sun platform. With years of experience in financial services, Sun's advanced technologies, along with Wallstreet FX, and expert tuning services, can help you tame the quickly changing FX landscape — and gain a competitive position in the FX market.

Formerly a systems engineer for Sun, Kat Rollin now reports on partner solutions for sun.com and develops technical marketing communications for the technology industry.