Wealthtech and capital markets

This software follows money that is invested rather than spent or lent. Capital markets are where shares and bonds are issued and traded, and their software runs the exchanges, the clearing houses, the trading desks and the funds. Wealthtech is the software that manages a person's investments, from the adviser's screen for a rich client to the trading app on an ordinary phone. This Industry Vertical holds the companies that build both, along with the data the whole market reads and the firms that trade with their own money.

A large part of the world's investment industry is built in India. S&P Global, Moody's, FactSet, Morningstar and LSEG run some of their largest data and research centres here, SimCorp and Clearwater Analytics build their investment systems in Delhi NCR and Hyderabad, and America's clearing and settlement is built partly in Hyderabad by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp (DTCC). At the same time, tens of millions of Indians have started investing from their phones, and apps like Jar and Rupeezy have grown up to serve them.

For an engineer, this is some of the most demanding work in software. Prices move in fractions of a second, every trade has to be recorded and reconciled exactly, and the data feeds that funds rely on cannot go wrong on a market day. Hedge funds and trading firms hire mathematicians and engineers side by side, and they prize speed and precision in the code itself.

Wealthtech and capital markets is one of the Industry Verticals of Domain V, Fintech. Every company named on this page has posted software engineering jobs in India.

The six Market Segments

The Market Segments move from the institutions to the individual, from the plumbing every trade passes through to the app on one investor's phone.

Exchanges, clearing and trading platforms

The exchanges, clearing houses and trading software through which every trade passes come from companies like DTCC, CME Group, ICE, Tradeweb and Broadridge.

Asset management and fund administration software

The system a fund runs on, holding every position and producing every report, is sold by companies like SimCorp, Clearwater Analytics, Arcesium, Juniper Square and SS&C Intralinks.

Financial data, ratings and research

The prices, credit ratings, indices and research that a fund manager reads before deciding come from companies like S&P Global, Moody's, MSCI, FactSet and Morningstar.

Hedge funds and high-frequency trading

Firms that trade with their own money, and make the trade their product, are here, like D. E. Shaw, Millennium, Point72, Graviton Research Capital and Citadel Securities.

Wealth management and advisory platforms

The screen a private banker or adviser manages a client's wealth on is built by companies like InvestCloud, Addepar, Dezerv, Investwell and Tandems.

Stock trading apps and personal finance

The apps an ordinary investor buys shares, saves, files taxes and checks a credit score on come from companies like HDFC securities, Rupeezy, Jar, Intuit and Credit Karma.

Who they hire

What wealthtech and capital markets companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on the Wealthtech and capital markets hiring page.

That is Wealthtech and capital markets, the software that carries invested money from the exchange floor to the investor's phone.