Case Study: Matthews South accelerates capital markets innovation with Beacon Platform

Enabling Change Agents for Capital Markets

Matthews South, a startup serving public and private companies in complex capital markets transactions, needed a technology foundation to build transparent, independent financial software without investing heavily in a full in-house platform. To compete with large investment banks, the team needed cloud-based development tools, integrated market data and risk storage, flexible scripting and high-performance computing, and scheduling for real-time and overnight analytics. They chose Beacon Platform to provide that core infrastructure.

Beacon Platform delivered a cloud-based IDE, modern data warehouse, Python application framework, elastic compute, and enterprise scheduling, while giving Matthews South full access to the source code for future customization. This allowed the small team to focus on its proprietary pricing and analytics while Beacon handled the platform layer. The result was a working product in six months and the company’s first client in nine months, with Matthews South now analyzing thousands of instruments and serving more clients with a lean development team.

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