Professional Services

Options are on a mission to transform financial sector technology. We aren’t market participants ourselves, but the No. 1 provider of IT infrastructure to global Capital Markets firms, supporting their operations and ecosystems.

We’re proud to provide high-performance managed trading infrastructure and cloud-enabled managed services to over 550 firms globally, providing an agile, scalable platform in an Investment Bank grade Cybersecurity wrapper.

Our clients include leading global investment banks, hedge funds, funds of funds, proprietary trading firms, brokers, dealers, private equity houses and exchanges. These clients are supported daily, across over 20 countries, in a true 24×7 ‘follow the sun’ model; we have someone on hand to assist at any hour of the day. With offices in 8 key cities; New York, Toronto, Chicago, London, Belfast, Hong Kong, Singapore and Auckland, we are well placed to service our customers both onsite and remotely.

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Our Professional Services provide technology consultancy to the global financial industry.

Our platform expertise equips us to help clients share, protect and manage their data with greater ease and less overheads. Our system administrators are aware of and prepared for dealing with the most advanced components on the market. They know how to integrate new hardware and software into clients’ existing IT infrastructures without disrupting business operations.

Deep sector knowledge and experience enables the team to help select, deploy, tune and support the right portfolio management solution for their clients.

Our Professional Services are industry-leading experts in the following:

  • Advent Geneva®
  • Advent APX®
  • Advent Axys®
  • Tradar Insight®

Our Professional Services offer the following:

  • Business Consulting

We specialise in clear and in-depth analysis, offering Options clients thorough strategic and design advice that results in concrete, measurable solutions. From implementation to maintenance, we supervise and train the client’s internal operations staff.

  • Project Management

Successful migrations and integrations for over 150 clients, striving for the goal of seamless workflow with as little manual intervention as possible.

  • Platform Selection Analysis

Only fact-based platform selection tool on the market.

  • Implementations and Upgrades

A constantly evolving market calls for constant improvements and systemic optimization. We provide technical and operational support for upgrading financial software, and deploy technology on the local, national, or international level.

  • Custom Reporting

Specializing in customised portfolio, transaction, performance and accounting reports, Options integrate technology to the client’s current interfaces. Our real-time reporting solutions allows you to integrate your trade interface, price loading, transaction inputs and outputs, and reconciliation systems.

  • Virtual Cloud Services

A comprehensive range of virtual services, from hosting specific applications or disaster recovery solutions, through to fully replicated hosted virtual infrastructure.

  • Enhanced Support

Our Professional Services offer 24×7, follow-the-sun support.