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TRADING POINT ACHIEVES
SECURE, HIGH PERFORMANCE
FX WITH RACKSPACE
Trading Point Holdings
has achieved improved
security, resiliency
and scalability of its
infrastructure after
selecting Rackspace as a
strategic partner to take
on the management of
hardware infrastructure
and support the firm in
the maintenance of
its systems.
rading Point Holdings is a
large and well-established
international investment
online brokerage firm based
in Europe which is dedicated to delivering
superior services in currency trading (also
known as FX), contracts for difference
(CFDs), equity indices, precious metals,
energies and CFDs on stocks.
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While a relatively new company, over the
past 10 years it has amassed a few million
customers – of whom approximately
500,000 are actively trading – across
its businesses: XM.com which is
headquartered in London, XM Partners and
Trading Point Asset Management.
It is now one of the industry leaders in the
retail FX sector and the brokerage of choice
in a number of countries around the world.
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
As a digital-first company, IT lies at the
heart of every interaction between the
client and Trading Point. Every aspect
of the business is underpinned by
sophisticated and complex technologies.
From visits to the website, onboarding
clients and the registration of a new
trading account, to the actual trading on
thousands of instruments offered and
the arsenal of tools it provides to traders,
each element must be developed, tested,
monitored and supported by the IT team.
The IT team’s challenge is compounded by
the large number of internal systems that
must also be managed, which support
the needs and best execution of internal
stakeholders in different departments of
the company: from the risk management,
back-office and Know Your Customer
(KYC) operations, CRM and more.
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