- Stability (Financially and in general)
- KB Tech has been successfully trading for over ten years and has built a strong and stable client base.
- During that time KB Tech has relied on organic growth with no external shareholders.
- KB Techs owns its software with complete IPR control.
- The directors of KB Tech have a vast range of relevant experience and are all “hands on” with the business.
- Partnership not pure supplier / customer relationship
- KB Tech prides itself in forming a close partnership with its clients.
- We working closely with clients to assist them in the growth of their business.
- We have a track record of “delivering beyond what is required”.
- Whilst formal contracts form part of this relationship we take a flexible approach to delivering solutions to unforeseen business requirements of our clients.
- In the real world unplanned problems can occur; a key factor is working together to resolve these.
- KB Tech has empathy with the growth objectives of clients with our commercial proposals tailored appropriately.
- Roadmap involvement
- KB Tech maintains a product development Roadmap for both short term and long-term feature enhancements.
- Sharing this Roadmap with clients is an important aspect of our partnership.
- In this way we look to ensure our products evolve in an efficient way for our partners and where relevant we alter our Roadmap phasing to suit a particular customer’s business drivers.
- Products being proposed are “core” to KB Tech’s ongoing business and strategy
- The Trading Portal, Clearing Gateway, Trade Registration, Risk Manager, and Surveillance / Analytics tools are the key components to the KB Tech Portal suite of products.
- All developments within KB Tech are designed to ensure functional and architectural consistency across the Portal product suite.
- KB Tech’s strategic business policy and planning revolves around the Portal product suite.
- Added value products and services to assist the expansion of your business.
- KB Tech has an extensive range of periphery products, which can assist in our clients’ business expansion.
- In addition KB Tech has its own internal development resource together with a “streamlined” procurement approach to the process of delivering additional functionality.
- In this way KB Tech is able to respond very quickly (in some cases immediately) to new business driven opportunities identified by our clients thus ensuring such opportunities are not lost. Examples include:
- Interface with market maker systems and prices.
- Integration to members back office and surveillance systems.
- Interface with members own trading systems.
- KB Tech has an extensive range of exchange data distribution tools that can address the full data distribution requirements of exchanges and other organizations within the financial markets.
- A selection of these tools which can assist in the expansion, marketing and commercial maximization of an organization’s market data business includes:
- Flexible web and mobile price display services.
- Standard APIs for data vendor connection (e.g. FIX, .Net etc.).
- Tools for efficient integration to bespoke data services.
- Full administration control in terms of data access, timeliness control of data delivery etc.
- Long retention rate with current clients
- The majority of KB Tech’s income over the last 24 months came from clients who have been customers in excess of 3 years.
- A major pension industry company has been a client for over 10 years.
- An exchange has been a client of KB Tech for over 5 years.
- A full timeline of the product experience is separately available.
- Conclusion
- KB Tech has in excess of 10 years experience in the arena of trading, clearing and data distribution resulting in an established range of proven products and services on behalf of exchanges and other organizations within the financial markets. This includes working with large and smaller exchanges alike with a tailored approach reflecting the specific business needs and other key drivers of the customer. We believe the points highlighted in this section together our proven track record shows that KB Tech would be an ideal technology partner.