Adaptive is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year

10 years to this date, Adaptive was incorporated. Our founders Matt Barrett, Loïc Rozé and Olivier Deheurles started an exciting journey that has led to what we are today: a specialist global electronic trading consultancy with over 170 solutions delivered and 250 employees.

To mark this special occasion, we are organising a series of events including celebrations across our offices and events with clients, past and present, due to take place later this year.

London Summer Party 2022

Adaptive was founded in 2012 to service demand from financial institutions for bespoke proprietary trading systems in order to differentiate themselves in the market. Over the past decade, we observed the move toward technological intensity, as firms move away from ‘off the peg’ technology to building their own solutions in-house in order to differentiate and compete in the long-term.

Over the past decade, Adaptive has delivered solutions to some of the world’s leading investment banks, brokers, fintechs and service providers, and is currently formed of 250 employees, who deliver innovative solutions from Adaptive’s offices in London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal.

Matt Barrett, co-founder and CEO at Adaptive, said:

“The financial technology landscape has drastically changed over the past decade. We have seen a shift towards technological intensity, where financial firms no longer rely on vendor products to differentiate and innovate, but instead, favour bespoke trading systems which they can own and adapt according to their roadmap. Back in 2012, we anticipated that off-the-shelf vendor technology was restricted in what it could offer clients and sought to find a solution. We’ve been very fortunate in our journey, working with great people on complex projects to solve challenging business problems.”

Adaptive plans for the future

Looking to the future, we intend to build upon our acquisition of Real Logic, a low-latency trading technology development firm, and bring Aeron and Aeron Cluster technology in-house – open-source software used by financial firms globally and which underpins Adaptive’s development platform, Hydra. The acquisition gives Adaptive scale to enhance its delivery of bespoke trading systems for clients and become a one-stop shop to deliver full stack trading solutions to the most sophisticated capital markets firms.