About Us|Careers|Events|Awards|In the Media|www.tcs.com|Contact Us
TCS RESEARCH

TCS RESEARCH
TCS Research

BFS

TCS Innovation Labs - Banking & Financial Services (Capital Markets)

Head – Mandar Raje

TCS Innovation Labs - Banking & Financial  Services (Capial Markets) tracks trends in Capital Markets and identifies opportunities as well as challenges for the market participants.

It offers innovative solutions by leveraging high-end technologies, innovative approaches and processes to help clients  meet challenges in Trading Systems, Investment Management, Exchanges and Depositories. It also leverages TCS’s strong domain technology expertise and provides platform solutions in partnership with customers. It plans to create thought leadership with a library of white papers. The lab has built a strong ecosystem by collaborating with various TCS Innovation Labs, business units & groups as well as with niche players, financial and technology research labs and academia through TCS’ COINTM network.


alt

 Research 
  1. Trading algorithms: Algorithmic Solutions for high frequency & algo trading.
  2. Discrete hedging solution: Discrete hedging solutions for derivatives portfolios of multi-asset classes.  
  3. Trader behavior and pattern detection: Research on trading pattern behavior of traders, deriving operational risk index based on the pattern and trading strategy detection.  
  4. Low latency: Lowering turnaround time from milli seconds to micro seconds for trading systems.  
  5. Complex event processing and message driven architecture: Reducing peak interval to generate more arbitrage opportunities.

    alt
 Solutions


TCS Innovation Labs - Banking & Financial Services (Capital Markets) develops solutions for:
  • High Frequency Trading:   A solution to improve the round trip time from milli seconds to micro seconds by leveraging a low latency high speed trading platform to ensure that  clients  have a cost effective solution customized to their requirements.
  • Testing Framework for Trading Systems: A framework for testing the order management plant by providing point to point integration and simulating the exchange behavior; and  In turn speed up go to market time substantially.   
  • IT Cost Optimization for Trading Plant: A solution to optimize a trade plant in terms of capacity/performance management, profitability analysis and IT cost efficiency.  
  • Derivatives Portfolio Valuation & Hedging: A system for valuation and hedging of portfolios by driving Value at Risk (VaR) of portfolios consisting of multi asset class instruments.  
  • Fraud Detection:  A solution for identification and prevention of high risk /abnormal trading activities by traders thereby improve trade supervisory abilities and operational efficiencies.
  • Enterprise Data: Solutions for exercising various facets of enterprise data management initiatives like Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, Data Privacy and security.  
  • IT Platform for BPO: A platform to keep abreast of corporate actions like dividend payout and stock splits, as well as  reconciliation.