Signal Platform

Case Study – An Advanced Analytics Trading Solution

Signal Platform

Case Study – An Advanced Analytics Trading Solution

Business Challenge

Working with clients in the Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) Derivatives market, 1118 discovered that Active Portfolio Managers struggled to find “a signal through the noise” of financial data. Our Product Innovation team uncovered that there was no comprehensive platform that brought together quantitative modeling techniques and technologies to provide data-driven insights in the valuation of market securities.

Our Mission

We pulled together a team of designers, full-stack engineers, portfolio managers, traders, and quantitative analysts to bring an advanced analytics platform to life–Signal. Combining agile practices with design thinking, our internal team identified the following key metrics to success:

Build an enterprise-grade platform that combined high-quality data, proprietary algorithms, and machine learning models to provide anticipatory insights to make better investment decisions
Provide a single platform to quantify the risk probabilistically and allow traders, risk managers, brokers and investors to see simplified risk on a complex financial product
Design an intuitive dashboard that would enable users to quickly analyze and visualize relationships between asset prices and the factors driving them allowing the management of risk in their portfolios

The Result: An Intuitive Platform that Identifies the Best Trade Ideas

When Signal launched, it was clear to our clients that we spotted an opportunity in unmet customer needs – we translated a labyrinth of unstructured data into impactful trade ideas.

While there were bigger plans for Signal, we couldn’t turn down the offer by a large trading firm to acquire the platform and intellectual property.

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