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title: "Low-latency trading risk management"
description: "Real-time risk and PnL observability replacing manual procedures, with order-flow segmentation that surfaces hidden revenue leakage."
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last_updated: 2026-06-17
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# Low-latency trading risk management

Global CFD broker - Active engagement. Real-time risk and PnL observability replacing manual procedures, with order-flow segmentation that surfaces hidden revenue leakage.

- **Real-time** -- risk and PnL observability
- **Automated** -- circuit breakers and strategy control
- **Order-flow** -- segmentation surfacing hidden revenue

**Challenge**

Risk management was largely manual, obscuring the true profitability of order flow and creating systematic revenue leakage. There was no real-time risk or PnL view across the book; the stack was tightly coupled to legacy systems; and any fix had to avoid disrupting live trading.

**Solution**

A proprietary market-data capture and real-time risk framework with dynamic strategy control and automated circuit breakers, built under senior oversight. FIX adapters and Kafka feed a kdb+ tick store across a hybrid cloud and on-prem footprint, integrated cleanly with the legacy stack.

**Outcome (in progress)**

- Real-time observability replacing manual procedures.
- Order-flow segmentation surfacing previously hidden revenue.
- Data-driven trading decisions at scale, with the team upskilled through ongoing embedded support.

Stack: FIX adapters, Kafka, C/C++, kdb+ tick store, Hybrid cloud and on-prem.

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