Case Study: IMC Financial Markets achieves 95% of developer questions answered within minutes with Stack Overflow for Enterprise

Though active across hundreds of exchanges, trading firm IMC finds a way to simplify internal communication

IMC Financial Markets, a global technology‑driven trading firm with development teams in Chicago, Amsterdam and Sydney, faced fragmented knowledge across multiple internal and external tools, making it hard for engineers to know where to ask questions or find prior solutions. To solve this, IMC adopted Stack Overflow’s enterprise offering, Stack Overflow for Enterprise, as a centralized knowledge‑sharing platform.

IMC implemented Stack Overflow for Enterprise with developer moderators, onboarding integration, weekly digests, an API‑backed engagement dashboard and a Slack integration that notifies channels of new questions. The Stack Overflow deployment drove rapid adoption and measurable impact: 95% of questions are answered within minutes, cross‑office issues are resolved faster (e.g., a trader’s API issue fixed by a developer in another office), and the platform is now embedded in developers’ daily workflow.

IMC Financial Markets

Tyler McDougall

Development Team Lead