Rule Financial’s technical prowess underpins the company’s commitment to quality and the recognition of talent.

We provide on-shore systems development, employing the highest quality technical specialists. Our teams architect, design and build fully bespoke systems to the shortest practical timescales.

The variety of our experience is remarkable. Based upon Prince 2 and RUP (Rational Unified Process) methodologies, Rule delivers systems using technology platforms such as Java, C++, C#, VB, Oracle, Linux and XML.  We only recruit the highest calibre of technical personnel through a rigorous selection process involving scrupulous testing and appraisal.

Consequently, Rule Financial consultants have well-deserved reputations for their diligence and intellect.

Development work is carried out either at the relevant client site, or at our City office. We know many clients prefer to use a high quality on-shore development capability in preference to low-cost offshore resources.  This avoids the communication, cultural and time-zone challenges associated with remote development firms, who may in reality have limited understanding of the banking sector despite their CVs and programming skills.

Many banks have found Rule’s on-shore development to be more cost-effective for delivering complex systems to meet urgent and demanding business requirements.

For example… 

One leading investment bank has engaged us to build their e-commerce on-line trading platform for fixed income and derivatives. This service involves maintaining and supporting the system, integrating it with downstream systems, and enhancing it regularly to meet rapidly evolving business requirements.

Our client chose Rule against an offshore development service because of the combination of business understanding, high technical quality, and our personal proximity to the bank’s traders.  Radically, and highly efficiently, the service is funded direct from the bank’s business division on a risk/reward share basis, with fee rates determined by the trading volumes through the system. 

This has consequently released funds from the bank’s IT budget which in turn has been allocated to Rule for other development projects.

Another client has engaged Rule to develop a next generation back office system using service oriented architecture design principles to manage swaps processing workflow, and to migrate the swaps database onto a new Oracle 10 database. Rule has also designed and developed a credit risk modelling application to meet the bank’s Basel II counterparty credit requirements, and developed an Oracle regulatory reporting application to handle risk weighted asset calculations to meet capital adequacy compliance requirements.