We offer expert advice and information in the development of complex projects (e.g., trading and market interconnection) and analysis of the technological infrastructure required (collocation, proximity), thus ensuring effective coordination and control of external partners and suppliers to optimize performance, budget, and timing.

 Our competitive advantage stems from our employees, who boast a +10-year experience both in the computer science and financial areas, including hedge funds, brokers, management companies and banks, whether Italian and foreign, thus prove able to support customers from functional analysis preparation to implementation and monitoring of any application.

 Such strategy makes of SG Financial s.r.l the ideal partner to design and build the multiple advanced technology solutions that companies need to ensure the development of their business.

 SG Financial has a proven ability to build cohesive teams across business and technology organizations. Articulate, focused and creative with consistent performance solving complex business and technical problems. Expertise in planning, developing and launching new products with a visionary and proven leadership able to support ideas from their conception through completion.

 We have a proven track record in successfully translating business requirements into product and technical requirements. We are skilled people with strong motivational skills to drive results in both team and individual performance levels. Consistently pursuing new challenges that expand knowledge, improve abilities and provide for greater satisfaction of employees and customers.

Custom software development

The increasing volatility in financial markets and the emergence of new execution hubs (MTF) have driven investors to optimize their strategies and implementation policies. In an attempt to meet adequately such demands, SG Financial s.r.l. has specialized in the production of:

Broker and market interconnection
      (FIX / GL / TRADEELECT / SOLA proprietary protocols)
Order routing
Best execution engines
Price aggregators
Investment strategies (from back test to go live with risk monitoring)

Our Techincal Skills:

Connections certified on exchanges and brokers : Hotspot, Barclays, Currenex,
      GFT, Saxo Bank, Cantor Fitzgerald, Interactive Brokers, Oanda, ACM, Dgcx
      (Dubai Gold & Commoditis Exchange), Fortis Bank, Citadel, Equiduct, Deutche Bank,
      Goldman Sachs, CFH, Equiduct, CME, Borsa Italiana.
Programming languages : JAVA, .NET (C#), Visual Basic, HTML, PL/SQL
Database :Oracle, SQLServer, MySql
Operating Systems :Windows NT 4.0 Server e Workstation,
      Windows 2000 Server e Workstation, Windows XP(Home and Profess.),
      Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Unix, Linux.
Development Tools :Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0,
      Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 , Microsoft Framework .NET(1.0,1.1,2.0,3.5,4.0),
      Microsoft Visual Studio .NET(2003,2005,2008,2010), Microsoft Team Foundation,
      Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET , Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft C#,
      J2EE (Java, EJB, JSP, etc.) ,T-SQL , PL/SQL , MySql 3.x e 4.x,
      Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008 r2, Oracle 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 9i e 10g,
      Microsoft IIS 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, Apache 2.0, MTS in NT e COM+ in Win2000 .
Protocols for financial markets :FIX ver. 4.0, 4.1,4.2, 4.3 e 4.4.,
      GLWin ver. 4.2 and greater. OM (Italian Derivative Market).
      GAM (Italian MTA, MCW and MOT Markets). Integration with Bloomberg,
      Reuters, ORC, Fast Track (LIST), etc.

Furthermore, we provide:

Turnkey application solutions
Integration of third-party systems
Internet re-engineering of key business processes
E-learning, editorial design, and info-architecture
Creation of websites and portals
Complex IT architectures

We boast a track-record of excellence in:

Design and management of sophisticated information systems
Construction of solutions for document management
Business intelligence
Internet / Intranet portals
Design and maintenance of complex IT architectures

Furthermore, we provide all integration services necessary for the products of any existing organizational / technological environment.

Using the customer-provided structure, such integration facilitates the organizational analysis required to determine the relevant user base for new services, the corresponding levels of authorization and security, the user training plan, the integration analysis with the existing information system, and the design of any new features.

IT Consulting

SG Financial offers its customers advanced consulting services to help them manage the front, middle, and back office processes.

From design to implementation, banks and brokers will always find the right partner in SG Financial s.r.l., one endowed with the necessary know-how and technical expertise for the implementation of complex projects.

To that end, customer needs are explored in detail to uncover the best business-efficiency boosting solution.

Technical Assistance

Our activities relate primarily to corporate IT support by means of technical assistance and IT systems monitoring. We place a special focus on the design and implementation of client / server systems and computer security.

We offer a variety of services addressing issues of IT support and software automation, which prove particularly important for small and medium-sized companies, whom we approach as all-purpose IT services providers.

Supported by our key partners, we provide the best hardware and software currently available on the market as well as valued-added business services. Our mission is to provide IT support to small and medium-sized companies through service contracts, whether time and materials or service annual-fee based.

Our standard contracts are:

Time and materials

A prudent approach to perfectly attune your technical support cost to the company's needs. In particular, it may help in avoiding or delaying such cost while making your support contract fully expendable.

Annual service contract

The classic, annually-renewable service contract that provides the best guarantee against malfunctions of your computer system.

On-demand interventions

On-demand interventions allow us to solve quickly any emergencies directly at your site.