Know exactly where your trading systems stand
Should you replace that system, or will it serve you for another five years? Will it cope as you take on more clients and more volume?
Sinara conducts an in-depth, independent assessment of your trading infrastructure — reliability, scalability, performance and security — against where your business is heading, and gives you practical, actionable recommendations you can act on with confidence.
Independent Technology Assessment
Straight answers to the questions that matter
Do we replace this system or keep it? Can it handle twice the clients? Is it safe to rely on for the next five years, or are we building on borrowed time?
These questions tend to surface at moments of change — an expansion plan, new business demands, a regulatory shift — and getting them wrong is expensive either way.
Sinara gives you a clear, evidence-based answer. We assess your trading infrastructure in depth, measure it against your strategic goals, and set out exactly what to do — whether that’s investing, replacing, or carrying on with confidence.
Why Sinara
An assessment you can act on
An in-depth infrastructure assessment
We examine your trading systems across the things that decide whether they’ll keep serving you — reliability, scalability, performance and security — and show you exactly where they stand.
Independent and objective
An honest verdict, not a sales pitch. If your systems are fit for the next five years, we’ll tell you. If they’re not, we’ll tell you that too — and why.
Reliability and resilience
How dependable is your infrastructure, and what happens when something fails? We assess the resilience your business actually needs.
Scalability for growth
Can your systems handle more clients, more volume, more products? We assess whether they’ll scale with your ambitions — or become the thing that holds them back.
Performance under pressure
We assess whether your systems perform where it counts, and where the bottlenecks are as demand grows.
Security and control
We review the security and controls around your trading infrastructure against the standards your business and its regulators expect.
Aligned to your strategy
We measure your systems against where the business is going — expansion, new products, new clients — not just where it is today.
Replace or keep? A clear answer
The big question, answered with evidence: invest in what you have, replace it, or run it longer — with the reasoning laid out so you can decide with confidence.
Practical, actionable recommendations
Prioritised recommendations and a roadmap you can plan and budget against — not a report that sits on a shelf.
Deep trading-systems expertise
This isn’t generalist IT consultancy. Our people understand trading systems and the markets they serve, so the assessment reflects how your infrastructure really has to perform.
A Thorough Review
What you get from an assessment
A rigorous, independent review that gives you clarity and a plan.
Assessment
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In-depth review of your trading infrastructure
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Reliability, scalability, performance and security
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Architecture and technical-debt review
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Benchmarking against current expectations
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Hands-on review and interviews with your teams
Gap Analysis
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Clear identification of gaps and risks
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Impact and priority for each
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Where systems will struggle as you grow
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Alignment (or gaps) against your strategic goals
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A clear, evidence-based picture
Recommendations & Roadmap
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Practical, prioritised recommendations
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A clear verdict on replace, invest or stay as-is
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A roadmap you can plan and budget against
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Options and trade-offs, clearly explained
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Support for building the business case
Trading-Systems Expertise
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Deep understanding of trading systems and markets
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Experience across asset classes
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Architecture, performance and resilience expertise
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Security and controls knowledge
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A view grounded in real-world delivery
From Assessment to Action
Advice you can act on — and help to act on it
Our assessment stands on its own, and stays independent. But if you decide to act on it, Sinara can help you deliver — we’re a technology firm as well as an advisor.
Help to deliver, if you want it
- New systems and technology modernisation
- Systems integration and connectivity
- Cloud migration and containerisation
- Resourcing to strengthen your own teams
- One partner from assessment through to delivery