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Real-time data distribution across trading systems

Transform and distribute real-time trading data across systems and applications through a proven, reliable, secure messaging service.

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Why choose Gateway

A smarter way to distribute trading data

Proven in high-volume, low-latency trading environments, Caplin Gateway is a trading-native integration layer trusted by global financial institutions to standardise real-time data distribution across complex, fragmented architectures.

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Connect disjointed trading systems

  • Bridge disconnected middleware and trading platforms
  • Enable cross-asset data sharing across Rates, FX and Commodities
  • Increase internalisation by distributing liquidity across trading desks
  • Improve technology and operational alignment with FICC business lines
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Control and optimise data

  • Handle high-volume data streams from upstream platforms (e.g. Kafka)
  • Tailor data delivery to each application, user or channel
  • Improve data quality across low-bandwidth connections or on resource-constrained hardware
  • Centralise authentication and access control across all data consumers
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Accelerate delivery of trading capabilities

  • Bring new trading and pricing APIs, front-ends and channels online in weeks rather than months
  • Reduce the impact of even large-scale backend change on downstream consumers
  • Enable faster rollout of trading capabilities to users and clients
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Simplify architecture and reduce cost

  • Reduce reliance on point-to-point integrations between systems
  • Standardise data distribution and make connections that fix fragmented architectures
  • Lower operating cost by simplifying architecture and removing duplication
What Gateway does

Trusted infrastructure for real-time trading systems

Caplin Gateway is a suite of server applications, components and APIs for transforming and distributing market data, trading activity and risk in any asset class. It powers the software used by all Caplin customers, supporting a wide range of use cases including single dealer platforms, sales workflows, FX, crypto and pricing engines in high-volume, low-latency environments.

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Real-time data distribution

Distributes streaming trading data across applications and services in multiple formats, including JSON, XML and binary, supporting consistent delivery across web, desktop, mobile and server environments.

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Integration layer

Provides a single connection point across pricing, trading and market data systems, enabling interoperability between platforms and consistent access to data across modern and legacy environments.

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Client session management

Manages client sessions across HTML5, desktop and mobile applications, as well as headless services, ensuring consistent behaviour and connectivity across different user interfaces and execution environments.

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Security and entitlements

Enforces access entitlements across all data consumers, centralising authentication and permissioning to ensure secure, controlled distribution of data across users, applications and channels.

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It’s happening with Caplin

Powering up their time to value

Case Study

Enabling low-latency, scalable FICC data delivery for Citigroup

Citi moved from complex data delivery challenges to a scalable, low-latency distribution model using Caplin Gateway, enabling traversal of a complex network topology and consumption by both HTML5 and desktop front-ends.

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Case Study

Implementing market data service levels and web distribution for a G7 stock exchange

A G7 stock exchange uses Caplin Gateway to move market data from their ticker plant and apply a number of transformations, delays and caching operations to implement several service levels, ranging from low-latency live streaming to 15-minute delayed to end-of-day OHLC, and to distribute that data to various external consumers via the internet.

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How to integrate

Simple to integrate into existing architectures

Caplin Gateway integrates into existing architectures through three steps: contributing data, applying transformation logic and securely delivering it to consuming applications.

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Contribute

Connect your existing systems and data sources to Gateway by building adaptors or bridging services using the Caplin Integration Suite. Contributors can both publish and consume data within the platform.

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Transform

Apply business logic and data processing through Transformer modules or scripted pipelines. Support for Java, C, Lua and JavaScript enables flexible, scalable handling of real-time data.

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Publish

Deliver data to applications using StreamLink libraries across web, desktop and mobile environments. Built-in authentication, SSO integration and entitlement controls ensure secure access for all consumers.

Technology components

Engineered for high-performance trading

Caplin Gateway is built from components that handle real-time data distribution, transformation, security and operational monitoring, working together to support high-performance trading environments.

High-performance streaming for trading data

Highly optimised to deliver large volumes of real-time market and trading data to web applications with extremely low latency.

Built to scale horizontally with load, with flexible throttling, conflation, batching and paging functionality out of the box.

Compatible with a wide range of consumer apps, our StreamLink API supports multiple connection methods, including WebSocket, HTTP streaming/polling and direct TCP.

Real-time data processing and transformation

An event-driven data transformation engine and cache, optimised to process and store large volumes of real-time trading data.

Built on a modular architecture, it allows business logic to be deployed and maintained efficiently while workloads scale securely across clustered nodes. A native key-value store enables rapid publication of cached data.

Supports business logic written in Java, Lua, JavaScript and C.

Authentication and entitlement management

Secure authentication for streaming data services using public-key cryptography.

Digitally signed tokens allow applications to authenticate with the streaming platform without maintaining multiple login credentials. Integrates easily with enterprise SSO systems.

Operational visibility and oversight

Provides rich operational metrics for monitoring system performance and activity.

Integrates with standard monitoring platforms including JMX and Prometheus, enabling engineering teams to track performance, usage and system health in real time.

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Rodney Chetty, Standard Bank

Caplin’s suite of products form a key part of how we do business with our clients. The Caplin team provide a great technology solution and strong business partnership that supports our aspirations

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