I quite often discover new vendors and often discover that they have actually been around a while operating in a discrete niche and doing well. At the back end of 2024, I found a vendor that was new to me that was based just up the road in Prague. After contacting them, I discovered that in fact, I knew the principals from my days at a trading firm with operations based in Prague. It is a small world! Growing Technologies was co-founded by Roman Mara and Pavel Kuriscak who have a considerable amount of experience developing E/CTRM solutions at places like CEZ and Ezpada. “We learned how not to build this sort of software,” Pavel told me. “Now, we are building it how it should be at Growing Technologies.” In fact, they have built a modular cloud-based SaaS solution that incorporates things like market data storage, trading operations, valuation & reporting and real-time position keeping. The software is already in use at a half dozen or so customers in European countries like Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Switzerland, and Sweden. “It’s targeted at smaller to medium shops and if they are trading several markets futures/OTC then it’s probably an ideal solution for… continue reading