Why Sinara

The trade engineering people

For 35 years, Sinara has built the technology that runs trading — combining deep capital-markets knowledge with genuine engineering craft. We’re the people the markets trust with their most critical systems.

Since 1989

Built to do things better

Sinara was founded in 1989 by four young software specialists with a simple ambition: to build a great business and do things better. (The name? Sinara Is Not A Real Acronym — a small joke that says something about how we work.)

Over 35 years we’ve grown from a specialist consultancy into a respected provider of modular managed trading solutions — without losing the engineering-led, problem-solving culture we started with.

Today we serve exchanges, brokers, trading firms and the metals markets, streamlining, integrating and automating the trading lifecycle from execution through settlement.

More Than Software

Engineers who are also market specialists

Our people are expert designers, developers and engineers — and capital-markets specialists. We understand the trading lifecycle, not just the code, so the technology reflects how the markets really work.

20 years in the metals markets and deep LME expertise, from prompt dates and warrants to the 2026 reforms. Leading metals brokers trust us with their critical systems.

We’re not about short-term profits. Our software is designed to be supportable, adaptable and robust, with a ten-year-plus lifespan — and everything we deliver is 100% supportable and sustainable.

Our people are expert designers, developers and engineers — and capital-markets specialists. We understand the trading lifecycle, not just the code, so the technology reflects how the markets really work.

20 years in the metals markets and deep LME expertise, from prompt dates and warrants to the 2026 reforms. Leading metals brokers trust us with their critical systems.

We’re not about short-term profits. Our software is designed to be supportable, adaptable and robust, with a ten-year-plus lifespan — and everything we deliver is 100% supportable and sustainable.

What Drives Us

The same values in our people and our work

Intelligence and Curiosity

Natural problem-solvers who are drawn to hard challenges and enjoy working them out.

Tenacity and Determination

We take on complex projects and see them through — properly, and to completion.

Equality and Democracy

A non-hierarchical culture where the best idea wins, and a graduate is as free to challenge as a director.

Long-term quality

We play the long game — building technology, and relationships, that last.

Specialist Areas

Deep in the areas that matter

Three specialisms run through everything we do:

Trading lifecycle

Deep understanding of the entire lifecycle, front to back, across pre- and post-trade, in back-end services, web, mobile and user interfaces.

Metals & commodities

20 years in metals and commodities, from futures and options to contract management, physical delivery, warrants and trade financing.

Market data

Building market-data software since we were founded, over 25 years, serving 100+ clients across Europe, Asia and the US — and an ICE Data Services channel partner for over 20 years.

Meet the Team

Clever, curious, and in it for the long term

We hire clever, intellectually curious people with the tenacity to solve hard problems, and we give them a non-hierarchical environment where they’re confident sharing ideas with anyone — from graduate to senior management.

That culture is why our clients get consistency, quality and continuity: the people who build your systems stay to support and evolve them.

Recognised In The Industry

Trusted, connected, engaged

Sinara is a member of FIA and FISD, an ICE Data Services partner, and an active voice in the metals community — from LME Week forums to the industry conversation on the 2026 reforms.

When the markets change, we’re in the room.

Let’s build something that lasts

Whether you need a proven product, a bespoke build, or expert advice, we’d like to help.