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Thanks to our close relationship with AWS we ’ re migrating everything to Kafka . The world ’ s changing a lot , particularly with third-party integrations , now it ’ s all about data streaming , so Kafka is helping us a lot .”
Brett notes that Libertex is unique among trading platforms as it ’ s closely aligned to a much stronger control over risk while reacting to market trends for mobile products . “ Margin trading is quite a risky product , but the stakes that you make when you go about opening a trade , the stake that you trade , is the limit of your risk ,” he
“ We ’ re keeping pace with the key issues around Big Data , introducing agility and managing security , while ensuring our platforms are scalable . We ’ re not aiming to be bleeding edge , but we ’ re in the game ”
— Grant Brett , CIO & Transformational Leader , Libertex
1997
Year founded
2.2mn +
Clients worldwide
700
Number of employees
explains . “ Because we ’ re a mobile first company , we ’ ve had to spend a lot of time and effort to simplify the mobile space and make it a fast pathway for our customers to understand trading . We ’ re looking at creating a different window of opportunity for people to trade with us . If they ’ re on their mobile , it ’ s easy to do , they can make a trade and monitor it on the move . It ’ s not like you imagine a trading desk with several monitors at a control station . Our market is to bring people into the world of
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