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Capital markets firms compete on how quickly data becomes a decision, and client expectations now rise faster than most infrastructure can follow — while volumes spike without warning and the regulations governing them keep moving.

Solace gives capital markets participants and service providers an event-driven foundation for that data, so a firm differentiates on cost, on how fast it brings new services to market, and on how well it serves its clients.

  • Distribute market data, orders and trades at scale with guaranteed delivery and low latency
  • Absorb unpredictable bursts of activity before they reach the systems least able to take them
  • Support compliance with shifting regulations through one governed, traceable flow of events

What can capital markets participants do with Solace?

Market Data Distribution Get Market Data to Every System That Needs It

Market data hits in unpredictable bursts and needs to be fanned out to a wide range of downstream systems — pricing, risk, algos, trader desktops — with low, predictable latency even through periods of volatility and peak volumes.

Market data hits in unpredictable bursts and needs to be fanned out to a wide range of downstream systems — pricing, risk, algos, trader desktops — with low, predictable latency even through periods of volatility and peak volumes.

Order Management Systems Carry Orders From Front Office to Back with Zero Risk of Message Loss

Order management systems (OMS) cannot tolerate any message loss when processing trade orders. Losing potential trade orders about to be executed or a trade order confirmations can potentially lead to monetary and reputation loss and issues with regulatory authorities.

Solace enables firms to process trade orders at high throughput with guaranteed zero message loss, helping enterprises stay competitive, satisfy customer expectations, and remain fully compliant.

Foreign Exchange Trading Hold Latency Flat at FX Volumes

FX markets feature some of the highest message volumes in capital markets. Driven by macro announcements and geopolitical headlines, traffic can spike unpredictably and stale prices directly impact profitability.

Solace distributes shifting price data to FX desks with predictably low latency even under peak loads Top market venues and institutions rely on Solace to handle global FX price, risk, and trade distribution across colos and private datacenters in popular trading hubs.

Trading Real-Time Streaming to Trader UIs

Trader UIs require real-time market data and order updates, but front-end applications operate under different constraints than backend systems. They rely on protocols like WebSockets, and human traders can only absorb a finite rate of visual updates.

Solace bridges this gap by automatically throttling high-volume backend streams before delivering them natively via WebSockets to HTML5 dashboards. Solace also enables entitlements to be enforced so each trader only sees updates that they are entitled to.

Post-Trade Processing Integrate Front and Back-Office Applications

Front-office and back-office applications operate with very different requirements for throughput, latency, and messaging protocols. For instance, a front-office application might publish trade order updates using Solace’s native SMF protocol, while back-office systems rely on open standards like AMQP, and an HTML5 reporting dashboard streams data via WebSockets.

Solace provides a unified event-driven foundation spanning regions and data centers. With native support for open standards including AMQP, MQTT, WebSockets, and JMS, Solace allows diverse systems to seamlessly publish and consume messages using their preferred protocols—delivering real-time visibility across the entire trade lifecycle.

Some Capital Markets Success Stories

RBC Capital Markets

Problem: RBC Capital Markets was running a variety of messaging systems across hundreds of servers, and no environment could be changed without affecting the others — forcing manual work, downtime and Saturday change windows.


Solution: Middleware distribution consolidated onto Solace in more than 50 financial centers, running RBC's global low-latency trading platform across six regions and connecting 25,000 applications.


Outcome: Volume climbed from 65 billion to more than 248 billion messages a day with no outages or performance degradation; 400+ application teams now self-serve across roughly 30,000 application connections, and new applications onboard mid-session without disrupting production.


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Standard Chartered

Problem: As one of the world's largest foreign exchange traders, Standard Chartered needed a scalable next-generation infrastructure capable of low-latency data distribution across trading locations.


Solution: Implemented Solace as the real-time data foundation for the bank's next-generation FX platform and its new standard for real-time data streaming, deployed first in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London and New York.


Outcome: Low-latency distribution across trading centers on three continents, with the footprint since expanded by seven more sites and another in progress.


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Credit Agricole

Problem: The corporate and investment banking arm of the world's fifth largest bank by assets treats eBusiness as a competitive differentiator, which meant its electronic trading in FX, rates and bonds needed a distribution backbone built for low latency rather than a collection of separate messaging systems.


Solution: Depployed Solace as the data distribution backbone for low-latency electronic trading, unifying messaging across the bank's eBusiness platforms on one infrastructure.


Outcome: Simpler management across systems that were previously separate, with improved reliability, flexibility and scalability as the business expands into new segments and geographies.


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London Stock Exchange Group

Problem: Trading information entering the downstream staging estate — surveillance, data warehousing, post-trade processing and billing — arrives at volumes those business-critical systems cannot absorb directly from the real-time trading platform.


Solution: Solace provides a high-throughput persistent streaming infrastructure that acts as a shock absorber between the real-time trading system and its downstream consumers.


Benefit: The downstream estate processes trading information quickly and efficiently at very high message volumes.


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TP ICAP

Problem: Moving to a service-based architecture meant the world's largest interdealer broker had to upgrade the messaging infrastructure carrying fixed income, equities, energy, interest rates, commodities and market data distribution.


Solution: Implemented Solace as global messaging and integration infrastructure, selected for its ability to support the wide variety of exchange patterns behind TP ICAP's intermediary services, internal and external trade execution, and data offerings.


Benefit: Cost-effective fan-out of information to large numbers of clients and systems.


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