Financial Services
Intense competition, complicated regulations and increasingly sophisticated clients demand financial institutions to provide tailored, real-time services. Leading trading and retail banks, brokerages, and research firms rely on Diffusion to deliver. They use it to fuel event data applications that provide superior customer experiences, high performance and significant cost savings.
Commercial Banking
In financial services, data can have a fleeting shelf-life. That’s why Lloyds Bank chose Diffusion to provide real-time currency pricing to commercial banking users.
Lloyds is the UK's largest digital bank and financial services group and needed the ability to provide real-time currency pricing to thousands of commercial banking users in real time, securely and efficiently. They chose Diffusion to power the Lloyds Arena application, which pushes data to Corporate Treasury platforms such as those used for Money Markets and FX dealing applications.
“Q1 customer signup was 400% over target and Diffusion handled the increased load with no added infrastructure.”
Lloyds
Trading and Exchanges
Financial exchanges must manage enormous quantities of active trading data in real time. To deliver, major US players use Diffusion.
Major US exchanges use Diffusion for their on-line trading platforms. They have been able to add new data streams such as integrated FX and Fixed Income systems and improved scalability to reach new global markets. With Diffusion, exchanges deliver high speed data using 90% less network bandwidth than alternatives. Plus, clients with slow or unreliable connections benefit from Diffusion’s ability to send delta data containing just the changes they missed.
“Diffusion is a secure, robust, fast & flexible real-time platform which supports our Electronic Trading Platform & the features within our GUI.”
Yann L’Huillier
Group CIO, Tradition
Retail Banking
To meet performance, security and resilience requirements, Consorbank chose Diffusion for their mobile banking application.
When German digital retail bank Consorsbank, a BNP Paribas owned subsidiary, needed to provide its current account customers the ability to trade and bank in real-time via a single mobile application, they chose Diffusion. Diffusion met the performance, security and resiliency requirements of their mobile banking and trading application—enabling delivery of superior user experiences and faster response times, thanks to the platform's state-of-the-art data optimization and communication technology.
“Our application provides a superior customer experience, fast response times, and a reduced network payload thanks to Diffusion's state-of-the-art data optimization & communication technology.”
Consorsbank
Investment Banking
IHS Markit provides investment banks the data needed to make confident decisions and chose Diffusion distribute this data to their client base.
Founded in the 19th Century, IHS Markit serves 50,000 customers, including 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and 85 percent of the Fortune U.S. 1000. They needed a way to disaggregate, blend and distribute this data to their growing client base more efficiently. With Diffusion, IHS Markit now scales to greater message volumes, enjoys improved network bandwidth efficiency and brings new services to market faster.
“Diffusion’s in-flight transformation capabilities for creating new event data streams assure every client gets their own channel – this is an extremely important for us.”
Managing Director
Major Investment Bank
Trading Research and Analysis
Signal Centre faced development issues until they chose Diffusion to power the delivery of their trading platform research and analysis data.
Signal Centre is an independent research firm that serves traders’ need for trading signals. Their challenge was to increase the speed and deliverability of their trading platform research & analysis data—and met it by underpinning the event handling and messaging side of their trading platform with Diffusion. The lower operational costs of Diffusion let Signal Centre focus on delivering high quality research and analysis.
“With Diffusion, we can focus on our skill of analyzing markets, instead of worrying about reliably delivering our information to traders around the globe.”
Steve O’Hare
Managing Director, Signal Centre
Customer Success Stories
Transforming Financial Services with Diffusion
Baker Technology builds bespoke trading applications for global investment banks. See how they use Diffusion to consume, enrich, and deliver event data to their Internet trading platforms.
When Tradition, a leading interdealer broker firm, decided to create a new electronic trading system, they chose Diffusion to assure reliable, real-time data delivery to their brokers worldwide.
GRATISBROKER chose Diffusion Cloud to ensure their online trading platform could reliably deliver trade data in real time to hundreds of thousands of customers.
Signal Centre needed to assure fast, reliable delivery of their Signal Centre Trading Platform research & analysis data to a high volume of traders worldwide and around-the- clock. Their team encountered development challenges until they selected the Diffusion Intelligent Data Platform to address their challenges and fulfill their requirements.
When German digital retail bank, Consorsbank, a BNP Paribas owned subsidiary, needed to enable its current account customers the ability to trade and bank in real-time via a single mobile application, they chose the Diffusion Intelligent Data Platform.
