
Metals broker solution: Integrating ICE market data and cloud-connected LME access
Sinara worked with a leading metals derivatives broker active on the London Metal Exchange (LME) to deliver a modern, end-to-end
Most trading businesses run on a patchwork of systems — some built in-house, some bought, some inherited — that were never designed to talk to each other.
Sinara builds the integration that joins them up, so data flows where it needs to, automatically and reliably, across your whole estate.
Pull it from one system, transform it, and push it into the next — trades, positions, prices, reference data, reporting feeds. We build the flows that get the right data to the right place, without anyone having to move it by hand.
Your own systems, vendor platforms, market venues and external services rarely share a common language. We integrate across all of them, so the boundaries between ‘our system’ and ‘their system’ stop mattering.
The manual export-here, re-key-there steps that hold your day together are slow, error-prone and risky. We replace them with automated integration you don’t have to think about.
Event-driven flows for things that must happen now, scheduled transfers for things that don’t. We use the right pattern for each interface — APIs, message buses, streaming, file transfer — rather than forcing everything through one.
FIX, REST, files, databases, message queues, vendor APIs — we’re vendor-agnostic by design and connect to whatever you’re running. Where a proven Sinara component fits — such as our FIX engine — we can put it to work driving the integration.
Connecting two systems isn’t enough if you can’t trust what moves between them. We build integration that validates and reconciles as it goes, so discrepancies surface immediately rather than at quarter-end.
We know what a trade, a position or a settlement message actually means. That domain fluency is the difference between systems that are merely connected and integration that is genuinely correct.
You don’t have to build every piece from scratch. Where it helps, we can bring in proven building blocks from our Sinara TLC suite — a FIX engine, connectivity and trade-lifecycle components — to speed the work along. Prefer a fully bespoke integration with no Sinara products in it? Entirely your call.
Integrations fail quietly — a feed that stops overnight shouldn’t be discovered at 8am. Everything we build is observable and alertable, and we can support and run it for the long term.

Sinara worked with a leading metals derivatives broker active on the London Metal Exchange (LME) to deliver a modern, end-to-end

The client specialises in base metal futures and options trading, including participation in the LME market. In addition to futures,

A multinational commodities broker with a strong presence in the metals derivatives markets approached Sinara to review its trading operations.