With the gradual deepening of system reform on capital market, new opportunities are brought to securities and fund industry. Diversified operation is changing to centralized operation or operation at scale; from management by operation to management by strategy; from transaction-oriented to client-oriented and market-oriented; further expand businesses from single stocks to comprehensive financial services of various financial products such as stocks, fund ,bonds, futures, options, foreign exchange and insurance to become one-stop financial supermarkets .
The securities and fund companies are diversifying their businesses and expanding their business scale so much so that they are in urgent need of a powerful, secure and effective integrated trading system to realize integrated operation of various businesses and processing of trading in various outlets and improve their own management. Securities trading system is a typical application system of ˇ®task is paramountˇ±, whose operation involves billions of capital and lots of clients; besides, it is a real-time trading behavior, hence system security and stability is of great significance.
IT strategy of securities and fund businesses has the following features:
- Resources integration and centralization;
- System standardization;
- Security is everything; establish disaster recovery system upon needs;
- Higher requirements on adaptability to innovation and changes; system platform and functions should be enhanced and perfected; share of OTC transactions (online trading) should be increased.
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