New York-based Random Walk offers planning and consulting services, as well as applications development, deployment, infrastructure and integration services around trading systems, risk management and other capital market applications. Its more than 70 clients include a range of high-profile financial institutions, such as ABN AMRO, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and the World Bank.

Accenture said that the complexity of the global trading system and the shifting financial services market, as well as regulatory issues, were driving demand for custom development and integration work in the sector.