Our consulting business is focused on the needs of trading desks of investment banks, international financial services companies and Exchanges and software vendors supporting international capital markets.

We especially offer broad and deep experience and insight into products and processes within the fixed income and derivatives markets, but of course are well positioned to support clients in related areas.

On the business side we are focusing on

• Analysis and optimisation of processes;
• Functional requirement analysis;
• Development of criteria for selection of external software vendors;
• Definition of business parameters for trading and risk management software;
• Preparation and execution of acceptance tests;

Beyond the business support we usually help our clients as well in the technical delivery of the business requirements. Here, we specialized in

• Technical proof and enhancement of business concepts and requirements, usually within detailed (technical) specifications;
• Planning, preparation and execution of system, integration and regression tests;
• Measurement of performance and latency of trading systems and identification of bottlenecks and associated risks when quoting products in volatile markets;

Fimas employees were or are working in the capacities described above, for example and among others, for the following companies:

• JP Morgan, London
• Deutsche Börse Systems AG, Frankfurt
• Eurex Bonds GmbH, Frankfurt