Boutique consultancy · United Kingdom
Software consulting for the financial sector
Cloud Traffic Ltd helps banks, trading desks, and fintechs design, build, and modernise critical systems — from equity derivatives platforms and risk engines to payments infrastructure and continuous delivery.
- Trading
- Risk
- Derivatives
- Payments
- Continuous delivery
Experience from inside investment banks, including Standard Chartered Bank and BNP Paribas Fortis
- Equity derivatives platform architecture
- Solutions Architect for Standard Chartered Bank's Sophis-based equity derivatives platform.
- Front-office pricing models
- C++ pricing models for revenue-generating equity derivatives products.
- Risk data pipelines
- High-performance extraction from Sophis to middle-office risk systems at BNP Paribas Fortis.
- Continuous delivery in banking
- CI/CD introduced into front-office development under bank change-control.
About Cloud Traffic
Hands-on consulting, led by a practitioner
Cloud Traffic is a boutique consultancy led by Paul Hartness, a software architect and developer who has spent his career building and running front-office and risk systems inside investment banks.
You work directly with the person doing the work. That means decisions grounded in how trading, risk, and technology teams actually operate — and code, designs, and delivery practices your own team can carry forward.
Services
Where we help
Focused support for the systems that move money, price risk, and keep regulators satisfied.
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Architecture & platform design
Target architectures for trading and risk platforms that hold up under real desk, regulatory, and operational pressure.
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Front-office & risk development
Pricing models, desk tools, and risk extraction pipelines built in C++, C#, and modern stacks.
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Modernisation & continuous delivery
Incremental modernisation of legacy financial systems and the CI/CD practices that make releases routine.
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Delivery leadership & coaching
Leadership for development teams working in regulated, multi-site environments.
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Have a system that needs designing, rebuilding, or shipping more reliably?
Start with a short, no-obligation conversation about where things stand and what a useful first step would look like.