Important consideration for CLSA in choosing a messaging solution was interoperability. Working within a multi-vendor environment, the bank needed a platform based on open standards, which could be integrated easily with existing assets.

T Rajah, CIO of CLSA, said: The way we trade is changing and this is placing new technical demands on the trading platform. To meet these challenges and to prepare our business for expansion, we wanted to identify an enterprise messaging platform with the scalability, performance, low latency and high connectivity to handle both current and future trading systems.