The world of financial trading is a fast-paced, high intensity one and you need to have the right solutions in place to help you do your job quickly enough to take advantage of narrow market opportunities. Nutcracker gives you the solutions to do just this.
Different players face their own challenges and have unique requirements from the system supporting them in their trading, investment and portfolio management activities. No two players in this market have the same exact needs.
At Nutcracker we understand this, and to help you address your challenges, we provide solutions customised and tailored to your individual requirements. We believe in providing flexibility at all levels of our offering in order to provide powerful capability, at your fingertips.
We do this by letting you choose what you need:
Our solutions provide all of the information you need around pre-trade, with direct, un-aggregated market data, risk management for the trading process, and portfolio management and back office administration for post trade.
Whether you need trading capability, portfolio management, statement and report printing, alerting or FIX order routing, Nutcracker can package a personalised solution for you. You tell us what your specific needs are, and we’ll choose the right ‘building blocks’ from our offering to customise your solution.
With more than 50 years combined experience in the industry, Nutcracker offers you:
- State-of-the-art technological know-how
- An intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of stock markets and financial trading
- Strong local presence
- An impressive list of satisfied clients
Our product offering is built around an advanced framework that adheres to the principles of Service Oriented Architecture.
This means our functionality is packaged as a complete offering of modular services that are interoperable and integrate with third party systems. All solutions are flexible and completely scalable to meet the growing needs and portfolio development requirements of organisations. We also subscribe to the principles of Agile Software Development. This is an internationally accepted methodology that advocates organic software development based on customer needs, through collaborative efforts between self-organising cross-functional teams.
Agile Software Development centres on four core principles:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
- Working software over comprehensive documentation.
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
- Responding to change over following a plan.
Nutcracker is a company that understands the demands of trading environments and is a specialist in developing technology for anyone in the financial services sector who requires real-time access to financial markets and supporting information, functions and processes.
The brainchild of Mike Casey, who brought his business acumen and financial expertise to the mix, and Dean Casey, who has vast technical know-how and an extensive understanding of financial market, Nutcracker was launched in 2000
Mike and Dean had noticed that there was an industry need for modular and flexible software - that not only meets current needs, but is also extendible to meet future goals and growth. As such, our software is custom tailored to meet our clients’ individual requirements.
Like the pieces of a three-dimensional cube, our services fit and interlock into a fully customisable, integrated solution.
About Dean Casey
Dean began his career in financial services software development as a consultant to companies in the United Kingdom. While there he identified a trend within financial services organisations to build siloed ICT infrastructures, with applications and systems that do not integrate or share information. As a result, separate business units were not communicating effectively with other areas of the organisation and could not effectively achieve corporate goals in this fashion.
The understanding of this requirement as a local need and Dean’s experience in the financial trading market led to the launch of Nutcracker, and the development of a number of applications and services for trading environments to allow organisations in this sector to harness the power of information and make informed trading decisions.
About Mike Casey
Excited about the potential for this product offering in the South African market Mike decided to postpone his retirement and lend the weight of his extensive business experience to the company.
Mike's solid career has led him from occupying financial and general mangement positions in the corporate world for two decades to 10 years of being a self employed international commodities trader and after that negotiating multi-million rand private equity deals. His involvement with Nutcracker has ensured a stable financial foundation for the company coupled with a sustainable business organisation.
For more information on Nutcracker or to find out how we can help you tailor a solution package perfectly suited to your needs please do not hesitate to contact Dean Casey.
Tel: +27 (0)11 575 0002
Fax: +27 (0)11 576 0006
Email: contactus@nutcracker.co.za
Physical Address:
Ground floor
Roland Garros Building
The Campus
57 Sloane Street
Bryanston
2021