Architecture

Calypso was the first financial markets application designed and built from inception as an integrated cross-asset front-to-back office system. This has required careful thought and planning about the system’s architecture and its ability to develop and expand. The result is an industry-leading architecture that enables institutions to meet existing business needs with strong adaptability for the future.

Calypso’s architecture combines comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality with flexibility to adapt to the specific needs of our customers.  With over 110+ installations globally – ranging from high-volume global banks and corporates, to boutique hedge funds - Calypso’s architecture has been battle-tested in mission-critical and high-performance environments.

Calypso’s single-system architecture has been built organically by our own in-house developers, ensuring an integral approach as the system grows and evolves to meet new market needs. The system is highly scalable with inbuilt integration between trading, risk, and processing layers. A comprehensive set of open API’s and extension tools allows customers to innovate new products rapidly and roll them out with full processing control. Highlights of Calypso’s architecture include:

• Strong system security and control via comprehensive authorizations, user access and password control, group level permissions and multi-entity permission structures
• Centralized enterprise system management, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance
• Global scalability across multiple locations and entities for continuous real-time follow-the-sun trading, risk management and processing
• Multi-threaded task management to optimize workload performance
• Cached data in memory to improve and optimize database performance
• Grid computing to perform process-intensive tasks and manage system stress-loads  
• High availability, disaster recovery and failover through stateless storage of persistent data and redundant clustered servers
• Calypso Application and Migration (CAM) Tool for rapid exporting, importing, migrating, or restoring Calypso and third party data
• Diagnostics provide a single-view interface for administrators to quickly view health of the entire system - including easy drill-down to specific subsystems and the ability to pinpoint root causes of any performance or stability issues

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