A reference architecture for stablecoin payment rails: on/off-ramps, settlement, treasury, custody, and compliance - a systems analysis, not financial advice.
A four-tier real-time fraud detection architecture: streaming ingest, online features, sub-100ms scoring, and a decision layer balancing recall and FPR.
A 2026 architecture for a transaction cost analysis (TCA) system: benchmarks, the data pipeline, slippage decomposition, and execution-quality reporting.
Digital twin in finance in 2026: what a financial digital twin really models, reference architecture, risk and liquidity simulation, and honest limits.
A 2026 system-design walkthrough of an implementation shortfall execution algorithm: the Almgren-Chriss frontier, scheduling, the slicer, and TCA feedback.
A 2026 system-design walkthrough of a VWAP execution algorithm: volume curve forecasting, scheduling, the slicing engine, and transaction cost analysis.
A 2026 systems design of a smart order routing engine: venue selection, latency budgets, best-execution logic, risk checks, and the failure modes that bite.
How to design a low-latency pre-trade risk engine in 2026: inline checks, kill switches, state management, and the latency budget, with no trading advice.
A 2026 systems deep-dive on building a low-latency market data feed handler: ITCH parsing, order book reconstruction, normalization, and failure modes.