Rapid Addition

Rapid Addition delivers financial institutions a complete electronic trading environment that gives control and flexibility in developing high-speed, low-touch, protocol and asset class agnostic systems. Our Hub and Monitor product provides clients with a total messaging and routing management tool using an innovative visualisation interface.We strongly believe that delivering high performance should not impact usability, which is why RA solutions provide a high degree of control and transparency. Flexible configuration through easy to use interfaces enable rapid on-boarding of new clients, venues and algorithms, along with our OS and asset-class agnostic approach, means that customers can easily adapt the platform to meet their business needs. The leading FIX engine from Rapid Addition, RA-Cheetah, gives consistent low-latency performance and exceptional reliability through a program of continuous development and performance testing. RA-Cheetah is built using Rapid Addition’s advanced low latency Generation Zero technology, which ensures no run time garbage collection in either the JAVA or .NET implementations of the FIX engine. We are currently introducing faster versions of our class-leading technology by replacing selected parts of our software with FPGA implementations of those functions.Complementing all of the above is the most comprehensive real-time monitoring tool on the market today, giving our customers the insight they need to ensure they have ultimate control over the performance and compliance of their trading operations. Founded in 2003 after developing the world’s first repository based FIX engine RA have continued to innovate and lead in electronic trading technology with high performance messaging solutions. RA is headquartered in the UK with clients in Asia, Europe, Latin, and North America, Rapid Addition works with many of the leading global financial institutions, including Investment houses, exchanges, MTFs, FX houses, hedge funds.