Since 2003, Rapid Addition has been one of the leading software solution providers to the global electronic marketplace.
A fully independent company, headquartered in the UK, with clients in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, Rapid Addition works with many of the leading global financial institutions, including banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, MTFs, Foreign Exchange (FX) houses, hedge funds and investment managers.
Rapid Addition are at the forefront of providing clients with a range of solutions and products that are vital to maintaining the necessary competitive advantage. The leading FIX engine from Rapid Addition, RA-Cheetah, gives consistent low-latency performance and exceptional reliability through a program of continuous development and performance testing. RA-Cheetah is built using Rapid Addition’s advanced low latency Generation Zero technology, which ensures no runtime garbage collection in either the JAVA or .NET implementations of the FIX engine. We are currently introducing faster versions of our class leading technology by replacing selected parts of our software with FPGA implementations of those functions. Rapid Addition also offer the only FIX Adaptor for BizTalk that works as a fully integrated part of both BizTalk and the FIX repository ecosystem.
Rapid Addition merged with DET Tech in 2016 to create a complete platform for electronic trading, RA Hub and RA Monitor. RA Hub allows electronic trading businesses to leverage RA’s expertise in messaging and computer architecture whilst deploying their propriety intellectual property easily safe in the knowledge that they are obtaining class leading performance. RA Monitor allows clients to monitor all their electronic trading activities in real time to provide quality support to their both internal users and external customers and detect and resolve issues before they become problems.