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Our work with exchanges and brokers gives us unique insights into how the market is navigating current challenges and opportunities.  On this page, we’ll share thoughts from our team and other industry experts on latest technology trends and developments.  

Blockchain – Part 3 – Smart Contracts

In this final post in our three part series on Blockchain, we discuss an important idea in this space, smart contracts. This featured heavily at recent Blockchain Summits and similar conferences, and is a topic of great interest and research. (more…)

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January 29, 2018

Developing Secure Systems

Sinara has been developing leading financial solutions for over 25 years, and throughout that time, the need to develop secure systems has been a constant.

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January 10, 2018

Blockchain – Part 2 – Applications

This is the second in a three part series on blockchain, focusing on some of its potential applications. Of course, it’s impossible to talk about this subject without mentioning the original: Bitcoin. However, there is plenty written about this on the Internet so suffice to say that this is a digital currency (more…)

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October 24, 2017

Unit Testing Private Methods Within a Class

This article is part of a series on software testing that will be expanded and updated over time. Software testing is a wide and varied subject, so we will aim to draw attention to certain topics of interest in a number of areas. This entry considers the unit testing of private methods within a class. Many (more…)

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October 18, 2017

Blockchain – Part 1 – Technology Overview

In recent years, two of the major drivers of change in the financial industry have been regulation and technology, and it is likely that this will continue for some time. There is one technology in particular that has been generating much interest (both to participants and regulators), active research and product development; a technology (more…)

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May 11, 2017

MiFID II Master Reference Data System

The upcoming MiFID/MiFIR II regulations and directives being developed by ESMA, the financial regulator of the European Union, are the subject of much discussion within the financial industry. Technology companies working within this space, including Sinara, will also be examining the implications for their clients and how the products and services they offer can (more…)

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February 15, 2016

Unhandled Exceptions in .NET

At Sinara, we build many server-side applications that must run 24×7 and cope successfully with the myriad problems that might occur in any live production system,

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January 18, 2016

Market Data APIs

Earlier this year, as one of Sinara’s founding directors, I participated in a financial market data industry panel that covered the topic of Market Data

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July 8, 2015

SignalR Coding Best Practices

ASP.NET SignalR is a library for adding real-time web functionality to applications. It allows server-side code to push content to connected clients as it happens,

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June 5, 2015

Unit Testing: A Personal View

When I started my career as a software developer over 30 years ago the waterfall model was the main game in town and my role

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October 21, 2014
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