Sinara at 30: investing for the future (2003 to 2006)

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Dennis Church

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. In this continuing blog series, we are looking back on some of the events and projects over that time. This entry covers a period of future investment and an interesting spin on offshore development. (more…)

Sinara at 30: the dot-com bubble (2000 to 2002)

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Dennis Church

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. In a series of blog entries we look back on some of the events and projects over that time. This entry covers the new millennium when civilisation did not collapse, and when it seemed the dot-com bubble would last for ever. (more…)

FIA IDX 2019

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Hamish Adourian

At the FIA International Derivatives Expo 2019 in London last week, there was much discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing exchanges and clearing houses, and the types of technology investments they might need to make over coming years. As a software house working with clients in this space, we at Sinara take a close (more…)

Sinara at 30: The rise of the Internet (1997 to 1999)

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Dennis Church

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. This is the fourth post in a series to mark this significant milestone, and covers our initial steps into product development and the opportunities presented by the rise of the information superhighway. (more…)

Sinara at 30: Bigger projects (1995 to 1996)

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Dennis Church

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. This 3rd post in the series covers our move into bigger projects with exciting new technologies such as smartcards and mobile phone software. 1995 was an exciting year for Sinara with the chance to work on two separate innovative projects. At Nat West, Phil was delivering (more…)

Sinara at 30: our first office (1992 – 1994)

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Dennis Church

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. This second post in a series to mark this milestone covers 1992 – 94, when Sinara established our first permanent office and started to specialise in software for financial market data. Sinara has always been a leading indicator for the location of good value London office (more…)

Building a Dictionary in TypeScript

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Sam Clarke

It only takes a quick search of “JavaScript” in r/ProgrammerHumor to understand the love/hate relationship that software developers have with JavaScript. The language boasts dynamic types, which therefore creates a lack of type-safety, often leading to weird and wonderful results. One of the subreddit’s favourite examples is: [6, -2, 2, -7].sort(); (more…)

Sinara at 30: the early years (1989 -1991)

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Dennis Church

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. To mark this significant milestone, we’ll be publishing a series of blog entries that look back on some of the events and projects over that time. This entry covers our early years, including the search for a name and challenging customer feedback (flying keyboards!). (more…)

Sinara celebrates 30th Anniversary in 2019

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Gary Hughes

Sinara Consultants Limited is delighted to be celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2019. Over all that time we’ve designed, written and supported a lot of software systems for clients all over the world. We aim to carry on doing that for many years to come! Over the next few months we’ll be publishing a few (more…)

Inventory Management System for Euronext

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Hamish Adourian

Euronext wanted to expand its range of offerings in the commodities space to participants across the European marketplace, in particular to eventually make the process for physical delivery simpler and more secure. The idea was to replace the manual paper/email processes with an automated system, whilst taking advantage of this digitisation to enable commodity (more…)

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