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APIs ARE POWERING FINTECH INNOVATIONWHAT IS NEXT?
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Stephane Dubois – CEO & Founder – Xignite
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MARKET DATA INDUSTRY
175 Years Old $26.6 Billion +1.2% Annual Growth
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FINSERV EMPLOYEMENT
5M
6M
7M
8M
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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1990’sCLIENT SERVER
2000’sWEB
2010’sAPIs
1970’sMAINFRAME
quotron
Vehicles
Terminals
Displays
Mobile Wearables
IoT
Robo-Advisors
Trading
1,000s OF BROKERS 10,000s OF TRADERS 100,000s OF ANALYSTS MILLIONS OF USERS BILLIONS OF DEVICES xignite
EXPLOSION OF END POINTS
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WHAT’S A CLOUD API?
•Simple To Use•Standard Based•Unlimited Power
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API GENERATIONS
Program
Library
Program
Program
Program
Server
Program
Cloud
Pre-HistoryExternal Libraries
(60’s)
1st Generation APIsRPCs
(70’s-80’s)
Network
2rd Generation APIsWeb APIs(90’s-00’s)
3h Generation APIsCloud APIs(00’s-10’s)
Local Not Sharable Complex Not Scalable
Remote Sharable Complex Not Scalable
Internet Shared Simpler Scalable
Internet Mutualized Simple Zero-Footprint
Internet Internet
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API HISTORY
HTMLW3C Standard
IMG TagFirst pointer to resources on external servers
JavaScriptFirst smart client capabilities
IFRAME TagComplex resource embedding
1996 FlashComplex resource embedding
XMLHttpRequestFirst Web API Implementation
AJAXFirst smart client logic
First API(Maps)
JSONPCall a server without a server
RESTRoy Fielding publishes his dissertation on REST
CORBAFirst standardRPC
First API
First API
First API
JSONFirst Spec
XMLW3C Standard
xigniteFirst Commercial API
First API First API
First API
S3 EC2
HTML5First Spec
SOAPW3C Standard
xigniteFirst Cloud API
First API
1990 1991
1993
1995 1996
1999 Feb-00
2000 2001
Jul-02Nov-00 Jun-05
Feb-05 Dec-05
1996 Aug-03 Jul-04 Aug-06 Sep-06Mar-06
Sep-121998
Oct-10Oct-08 Nov-13
FINTECHWAVE
First API
Oct-08
Jun-07 Jun-08
App Store
iPhone 1
First API
Oct-02
Jeff Bezos API Memo
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THE ENABLER
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation.pdf
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XIGNITE FIRST API
http://web.archive.org/web/20031024042925/http://www.xignite.com/xRealTime.asmx?op=GetRealQuote
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USAGE SINCE INCEPTION
0.0002B 0.002B 0.02B 0.2B 1.6B 3.8B 40B
71B
137B
456B
1,395B
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Fcast
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XIGNITE IN NUMBERS
750BRequests 16’ YTD
650API End Points
150Data Sources
1100+Clients
$37MRaised
45Employees
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2000
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4000
6000
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10000
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14000
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18000
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MARKETS AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AND S&P500 2000-2015
$5,000,000
$500,000
$50,000 $5,000
2000 2005 2009 2011
FINTECH REVOLUTION DRIVERS
ECONOMICALFACTORS
SOCIALFACTORS
TECHNOLOGICALFACTORS
NEW MILLENIAL EXPERIENCE
COST TO BUILD APPS DROPPED
MaturingOf App
DevelopmentScaling
of PublicCloud
SocialCustomer
Acquisition
Dawnof APIs
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FINTECH NOT SLOWING DOWN
$0B
$2B
$4B
$6B
$8B
$10B
$12B
$14B
$16B
$18B
$20B
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Fintech Fundings 2015 vs 2016 Week by Week
2016
2015
Week in Year
Sources: Finovate
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ANDY RACHLEFFCHAIRMAN & FOUNDER
“WEALTHFRONTWAS ENABLED BY 3TECHNOLOGIES:ETFs, TRADING APIs, AND MARKET DATA APIS.”
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APIS POWERING INNOVATIONRobo-Advisors & Robo-Platforms
Brokerage & Trading
Media
Retirement
Investor Reporting, IR & HR
Lending & Payments
Wealth & Portfolio Management
Compliance
Horizontal Enterprise Applications
Terminals
IoTE-Commerce Enterprise Financial Reporting
Research & Analytics
Social & Analytics
Search Engines
Back-Office & Processing
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TECTONIC SHIFT APP DEVELOPMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
CUSTOMER ACQUISITION
CORE SERVICES
Faster
Cheaper
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FINSERV BIG SQUEEZE
Fintech
User Experience Pressures
Business ModelPressures
Cost StructurePressures
Regulator
Balance Sheet Pressures
Business ModelPressures
Operational CostPressures
Since 2013 Since 2008INNOVATION REGULATION
FinServ
INNOVATETRANSFORM
REDUCE COSTSCOMPETE COMPLY
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AWARENESS AT THE TOP
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"Silicon Valley is coming.“Jamie DimonChairman & CEO – JPMorgan ChaseLetter to Shareholders - 2015
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THE MARKET DATA CHALLENGE
Market data is one of the largest expenses for many firms.
Previously neglected or hiddenis the cost of market data infrastructure.
Legacy market data infrastructure stifles innovation, prevents transformation and drives up costs.
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MARKET DATA
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ColocationColocation
TYPICAL LANDSCAPE
Lots of legacy in-house infrastructure Vendor lock-in and point to point interfaces Significant compliance risks and costs Many data silos across vendor technologies Reliability and maintenance issues Redundant or unnecessary expenses Rigid, expensive and innovation killer New app development nearly impossible Unable to disconnect legacy systems Costs continue to increase with scale
EXCHANGES VENDORS
Databases
Handlers
Databases
Analytics Engines
Databases
Tick Databases
App Servers
Cache Servers
Fanout Servers
Messaging Servers
Processing Engines
Search Engines
Trading & Algos
Handlers
Feeds FilesFeeds
Proprietary Processing Engines
Vendor Proprietary Servers
Redundancy
Compliance
Silos
Personnel
Upgrades
Lock-inPoint to Point
Legacy
Front-Office Mobile & Web
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MARKET DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure$76M
Market Data
$100M
MARKET DATA SPEND
$33M
$21M
$14M
$8M
Hardware
Software
Networking
Personnel
INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING
Typical Top Tier Firm
Source: Rosenblatt Securities
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INDUSTRY-LEVEL ISSUE
Much replicated data and infrastructure• Same feeds from same exchanges• Same files from same vendors• Same databases to store and manage the
same data.• Massive replicated data centers, storage an
processing• Same hardware and system administration
burden• Same staff to monitor and administer
No significant competitive benefit• 95% of infrastructure is commoditized• Billions of dollars wasted on replication• Enormous innovation inertia
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INDUSTRY-LEVEL ISSUE
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WHY APIS MATTER
Reducing the Cost Structure
• Build a new tech stack from scratch
• Leverage the public Cloud
• Leverage third-parties
Improving the Experience
• Improve User interface & workflow
• Reduce friction and automate
• Increase access to information
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NEW THINKINGTrading & Algos Front-Office Mobile & Web
ColocationColocation
Databases
Handlers
Databases
Analytics Engines
Databases
Tick Databases
App Servers
Cache Servers
Fanout Servers
Messaging Servers
Processing Engines
Search Engines
Trading & Algos
Handlers
Feeds FilesFeeds
Proprietary Processing Engines
Vendor Proprietary Servers
Redundancy
Compliance
Silos
Personnel
Upgrades
Lock-inPoint to Point
Legacy
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EXCHANGES VENDORS
Cloud?
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ADOPTION ROADMAP
First Use Case• Customer Facing/Backup• Mobile/Web• Critical Innovation• Critical Time to Market• No New Infrastructure• Get Comfortable• Align with API Strategy
Adopt Broadly• Deploy for all new apps• Reduce dependency on legacy• Eliminate fringe infrastructure• Replace some data sources
Remove Legacy• Onboard data sets • Add contributed data sets• Migrate legacy back ends• Eliminate core infrastructure
6-18 Months
1-3 Years
2-5 Years
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THE NEXT GENERATION APPS
1990 1995 2000 2005 2020 2025
Client-Server Generation Web Generation
MainstreamApplications
The Next Big Thing
Fintech Mainstream Generational Replacement
FinTech EarlyAdopter Wave
2010
Cloud Generation2015
Internet – HTML – Browser – Active Server Pages – Broadband – AJAX
RDBMS – LANs – PCs – Mini Computers
Virtualization – SOAP – XML – JSON – REST – HTML5
Fat Client
DB Server
HTML
Web Server
HTML5
Cloud APIs
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THE FINSERV API VALUE CHAIN
Customers
Employees
Apps Developers APIs Market Data
Markets
Back-Ends
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EXAMPLE 1: REAL-TIME DATA TO MOBILE USERS
ColocationColocation
Handlers
Parsing Engines
Handlers
Feeds
EXCHANGES
Databases
Tick Databases
Fanout Servers
PROBLEMS
Tons of infrastructure
Peak activity scaling
Software licensing
Custom processing
Complex programming
6-12 months minimum
Scaling lead time
Monitoring required
Large capex and opex
TRADITIONAL APPROACH: IN HOUSE
Silos
Redundancy
Legacy
Monitoring
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SOLUTION: CLOUDSTREAMING API
ColocationColocation
Handlers
Parsing Engines
Handlers
Feeds
EXCHANGES
Databases
Tick Databases
Fanout Servers
CLOUD APIS
CloudStreamingAPI
EXCHANGES
Deploy instantly
High reliability
Scalable to millions
No capex
No worries
TRADITIONAL APPROACH: IN HOUSE CLOUD APPROACH
Redundancy
Legacy
Monitoring
Silos
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EXAMPLE 2: ENGAGING CUSTOMERS WITH ALERTS
TRADITIONAL APPROACH: IN HOUSE
ColocationColocation
Databases
Handlers
Databases
Analytics Engines
App Servers
Messaging Servers
Processing Engines
Handlers
Feeds FilesFeeds
Proprietary Processing Engines
Vendor Proprietary Servers
Redundancy
Compliance
Silos
Personnel
Upgrades
Lock-inPoint to Point
Legacy
EXCHANGES VENDORS
PROBLEMS
Tons of infrastructure
Huge amounts of data
Significant integration
Custom processing
Complex programming
6-12 months minimum
Scaling lead time
Monitoring required
Large capex and opex
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SOLUTION: CLOUDALERT API
CLOUD APIS
CloudAlert API
Internal Systems
Short time to market
Scalable to millions
No data management
No capex
No worries
CLOUD APPROACHTRADITIONAL APPROACH: IN HOUSE
ColocationColocation
Databases
Handlers
Databases
Analytics Engines
App Servers
Messaging Servers
Processing Engines
Handlers
Feeds FilesFeeds
Proprietary Processing Engines
Vendor Proprietary Servers
Redundancy
Compliance
Silos
Personnel
Upgrades
Lock-inPoint to Point
Legacy
EXCHANGES VENDORS
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TRANSACTIONAL APIs
BUSINESS APIs
THE NEXT-GENERATION APPS
INFRASTRUCTURE APIs
MARKET DATA APIs
ANALYTICS APIs
WORKFLOW APIs
THE FINTECH API ECOSYSTEM
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MARKET DATA CLOUD
INFRASTRUCTURE APISStorage, Processing & More
DATA APISMarket Data – Reference Data – Contributed Data
ADVANCED APISStreaming – Alerts – Visualization – Analytics – Screening
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XIGNITE GLOBAL MARKET DATA CLOUD
Equities Funds Fixed Income Indices Futures Options Forex Metals Derivatives
Real-Time Quotes Valuation Fundamentals Master Ticks & Bars Analytics Markets
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THE INDUSTRY’S EASIEST APIS
Standard Based Comprehensive Consistent Integrated Scalable
Real-Time Data Master Data Fundamental Data
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THANK YOU
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Stephane Dubois – CEO & Founder – Xignite – [email protected] – @sdubois