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Velocimetrics

Velocimetrics delivers uncompromised, real-time, operational oversight across extremely complex, high volume and geographically distributed environments, supported by detailed network, middleware, market data and business-level analytics. Providing clients with a granular understanding of what is happening, as it is happening across complete end-to-end business critical processes, Velocimetrics’ product suite enables emerging

  • Editorial Team
  • May 12, 2021
  • 3 minutes

Mission statement

Velocimetrics delivers uncompromised, real-time, operational oversight across extremely complex, high volume and geographically distributed environments, supported by detailed network, middleware, market data and business-level analytics.

Providing clients with a granular understanding of what is happening, as it is happening across complete end-to-end business critical processes, Velocimetrics’ product suite enables emerging sources of operational risk, financial loss, potential SLA and regulatory breaches to be instantly detected and forensically investigated whilst simultaneously quantifying the issue’s business and client impact.

Providing asset class agnostic, highly customisable, agile, open and scalable solutions, Velocimetrics is able to precisely meet each client’s exact requirements with tools designed and deployed by a team offering world-class financial services expertise

Profile

Velocimetrics delivers uncompromised, real-time, operational oversight across extremely complex, high volume and geographically distributed environments, supported by detailed network, middleware, market data and business-level analytics.

History

Velocimetrics was formed in 2009, with its principle offices based in New York and London.

Focus

Velocimetrics’ client base includes investment banks, regional banks, banks operating payment platforms, buy-side firms, trading venues and managed service providers. Clients use Velocimetrics’ technology to meet a wide range of business requirements. These use cases span from firms deploying Velocimetrics’ solutions to assess the quality of the market data being received, to firms that want to identify operational risks emerging in their HFT and algo trading processes. Then at the other end of the spectrum, it’s used in settlements and payments processing environments.

Goals

To provide innovative and intelligent business-flow tracking and performance analysis solutions to the financial services industry.

People

Steve Colwill, Velocimetrics’ CEO

Steve Colwill is the CEO and Founder of Velocimetrics. He has has over 25 years of financial services experience. He is a software architect and senior manager, and spent 15 years of his career building high volume, real-time FX, fixed income and equity pricing, risk and trading systems for a number of tier 1 investment banks.

For over 4 years he held the position of CTO at Iris Financial, during this time he gained experience of managing R&D and service teams of 60+ people, while driving the complete redevelopment of the product from the bottom up. Prior to which he held positions at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (now Commerzbank), Investment intelligent Systems Corp and Siemens.

Paul Spencer, Velocimetrics’ COO

Paul Spencer has more than 30 years of experience within the IT industry.

Prior to joining Velocimetrics, Paul was the Founder and Managing Director of Axial Systems, where he played a fundamental role in growing the company to become one of the UK’s leading independent suppliers of network performance management systems and was focused on building strong supplier relationships with its clients including global finance companies based in London and New York.