Stifel Financial Corp leverages kdb+ for Enhanced Trading Analytics

Stifel Financial Corp, a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm, has long been considered a significant player in the financial services industry. With over 8 billion shares traded annually in the United States alone, they have always been at the forefront of leveraging technology to enhance their services.

In trading, the ability to ingest and analyze real-time market data is crucial. Stifel recognized that there was a need to enhance its market data analytics to achieve sub-second decision making and improve trade execution operations.

Stifel turned to KX, the maker of kdb+, the world’s fastest time series database and real-time analytics engine to strengthen its market intelligence and trade execution impact.

Built for the most demanding data environments, KX technology is trusted by the world’s leading companies for large-scale complex analytics on streaming, real-time, and historical data. It is used in capital markets for algorithmic trading, back-testing, surveillance, regulatory reporting, and research environments as well as in other industries for high-speed sensor monitoring, fault detection, predictive analytics, and machine learning.

The implementation of kdb+ has allowed Stifel to improve trade execution analytics and operations, thereby increasing value for its clients