Capital Markets Solutions Group

Rapid, cost effective innovation in Capital Markets requires highly skilled technologists with deep industry knowledge. Accenture's Capital Markets Solutions Group provides a unique blend of technology, industry and methodology expertise to deliver cutting edge results at rapid speed and low delivery risk.

Achieving high performance in the capital markets industry has never been more challenging.

Customers demand a steady flow of new products. Innovations quickly become commoditized. Global expansion requires compliance with new regulations—from Basel II to MiFID. Internal stakeholders expect effective risk mitigation. And competitors continue to emerge from every corner of the market.

In this environment, standardized software solutions can provide efficiency and cost savings. But to truly stand apart, you need highly customized solutions that are as distinctive as your organization.

For a growing number of capital markets leaders, the source for those solutions is the Accenture Capital Markets Solutions Group.

The Solutions You Need, from a Trusted Provider

The Capital Markets Solutions Group is a specialized unit within Accenture that is dedicated to developing and delivering innovative, one-of-a-kind trading systems, risk management solutions, and other cutting-edge technologies for the world's leading capital markets companies.

The group was established when Accenture acquired Random Walk Computing, a prominent capital markets technology consulting firm offering innovative, custom software development and IT-centered analysis to Wall Street clients for more than a decade.

The creation of the Capital Markets Solutions Group underscores Accenture's commitment to innovation, and expands our custom software development and integration capabilities for building complex trading systems, electronic exchanges, and other mission critical applications.

Client Successes

• Leading Asset Manager: Custom Solutions
• National Stock Exchange: Custom Solutions
• WR Hambrecht + Co: Custom Solutions

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A Deep Understanding of Your Challenges
The Capital Markets Solutions Group draws on Accenture's long tradition of leadership in the capital markets industry—while expanding important new capabilities.

Accenture is the global leader in capital markets consulting and outsourcing services, working with 97% of the financial services institutions ranked in the Fortune Global 100 and 89% of those in the Fortune Global 500.

And now, with more than 200 dedicated professionals worldwide, the Capital Markets Solutions Group offers new perspectives on the complex issues driving the financial services industry today.

Our mission is to help our clients to effectively compete, and to differentiate, through innovative advanced technologies that are closely aligned with their business requirements.

A Track Record of Success
Accenture has successfully delivered countless projects to the capital markets industry, including more than 350 custom software development projects across business lines and asset classes to over 70 of the world's leading banks, electronic exchanges, asset managers and hedge funds.

Through our custom solutions, clients have been able to reduce the costs and risks associated with software development while opening up new lines of business and avenues of communication.

Industry-Leading Expertise
Our projects range from planning and business analysis to building real-time applications on traders' desktops to comprehensive electronic exchanges. They encompass trading and order management systems, electronic exchanges and exchange connectivity, market data applications and infrastructure, mid- and back-office infrastructure, and risk management software.

The source of these innovations is one of the industry's most respected groups of financial services executives and software developers.

Our people possess deep skills in advanced software development technologies, including object-oriented languages, databases, middleware, and web technologies.

They also possess in-depth knowledge of fundamental financial products such as equities, fixed income instruments, foreign exchange, and a wide variety of derivatives. Many of our consultants have expertise in specialized topics such as structured credit derivatives, securities lending, and prime brokerage, among many others.

Robust Methodologies and Frameworks
The Capital Markets Solutions Group utilizes a large repository of project accelerators, methodologies and tools to help reduce implementation risk, facilitate knowledge transfer, and increase speed to value for every client. These robust frameworks and tools ensure the successful delivery of projects on time and within budget.

Our portfolio of powerful methodologies and frameworks includes:

• Accenture Custom Software Solutions Methodology—a complete set of guidelines that, when followed closely, allow software projects to be developed in a controlled fashion with a high level of repeatable success.
  
  
• Accenture Rapid Application Development Framework—a highly flexible, production-proven framework for the rapid development and deployment of sophisticated internal and client-facing trading solutions.
  
  
• Accenture Streaming Internet Data Solution—a middleware communication framework that allows servers to push real-time data to clients through intervening firewalls and Web proxies in a secure and robust manner.

The Capital Markets Solutions Group offers innovative custom software development as well as IT-centered analysis and consulting for financial markets firms.

Build and Deploy Services:

• Custom Application Development—teams of domain experts and technologists partner with key stakeholders in financial services to develop custom software.
  
  
• Client-Facing Applications—help connect firms with customers through the development of network-deployed applications that facilitate complex transactions in global environments.
  
  
• Systems, Data and Feeds Integration—connects client applications with vendor and counterparty systems, and ties together internal applications within departments or across business silos.
  
  
• Enterprise Architecture—helps IT executives and technology architects plan and implement a cohesive technology strategy across the enterprise.
  
  
• Legacy Migration—ensures a smooth transition of trusted production systems to new technology platforms with enhanced features.
  
  
• Performance Optimization—uses metrics-based best practices to help technologists quickly identify and resolve speed bottlenecks in financial services applications.
  
  
• Quality Assurance—a highly disciplined process that thoroughly evaluates software at each stage in the software development lifecycle.
  
  
• Software Applications Technology (SWAT) Team—helps technologists at capital markets firms troubleshoot extremely challenging issues.

Advise and Prepare Services:

• Business and Process Analysis—helps executives analyze the interaction between business processes and IT applications and infrastructure.
  
  
• Requirements Gathering—provides key stakeholders with detailed documentation of all functional and technical specifications needed to begin software development or an RFP process.
  
  
• Technical Assessment and Strategy—offers an in-depth evaluation of existing software, IT infrastructure and personnel.
  
  
• Vendor Selection—helps financial services firms evaluate third-party technology solutions within the context of their unique needs.
  
  
• Project Management Office—a rigorous discipline that provides quality, time and budget control over complex software development and systems integration projects.
  
  
• Mentoring—delivers relevant technology and methodology best practices to key IT people and other stakeholders throughout projects.