Case Study: JPMorgan achieves faster time-to-market and market-leading derivatives scalability with Cincom Smalltalk

JP Morgan Derives Clear Benefits from Cincom Smalltalk

JP Morgan, a global leader in investment banking and derivatives, needed a development environment that could manage highly complex interest-rate and credit-hybrid products, maintain rapid time-to-market for new offerings, and scale to very high trading volumes. The firm’s challenge was to give financial developers the tools to prototype and deploy sophisticated products quickly without requiring deep infrastructure expertise, while supporting massive production throughput.

JP Morgan built the Kapital system on Cincom Smalltalk, a RAD platform offering integrated development, persistence and distribution services with strong portability. The result: Kapital became a market-leading pricing and risk engine that supports large volumes and fast product rollout, with JP Morgan estimating roughly three times the productivity of other languages, a small development team delivering outsized revenue contributions, and easy deployment across multiple operating systems.

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