Digital Brokerage Platform
Digital brokerage platforms: account opening, real-time trading, market data, margin and back-office integration.
- ClientCheckout · wallet
- APIIdempotency key
- Identity & KYCVerified
- Risk & complianceRules passed
- Payment gatewayAuthorised → captured
- LedgerDouble-entry posted
- SettlementBank rail · T+1
Journal entry · balanced
| Account | Debit | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| Customer funds | 120.00 | — |
| Merchant payable | — | 118.20 |
| Fee revenue | — | 1.80 |
Division
Service area
Investment & Wealth Technology
Engagement
Project · Team · Managed
Overview
Digital brokerages compete on experience, reliability at market open and breadth of products. We build brokerage platforms with fast account opening, real-time trading interfaces, streaming market data, order types, margin and risk views, statements and back-office integration with clearing and custody partners.
Common use cases
- Retail brokerage appTrading for self-directed investors.
- Active trader platformAdvanced order types and real-time data.
- Broker white-labelBrokerage technology for partners.
- Multi-market accessTrading across exchanges via partners.
Quick answers
Digital Brokerage Platform at a glance
The essentials in brief. Every project is scoped individually — ask us for specifics.
- What is digital brokerage platform?
- Digital brokerage platforms: account opening, real-time trading, market data, margin and back-office integration.
- Who is it for?
- Typically neobanks, payment companies, lenders, wealth platforms and financial institutions building or modernising customer-facing and back-office systems.
- What does Shivacha provide?
- Account opening
- Trading UI
- Market data streaming
- Order types
- Risk & margin
- Back-office integration
- Which technologies are used?
- WebSockets, Java, Apache Kafka, Redis, Python, PostgreSQL — chosen to fit your stack and constraints.
- How does the process work?
- Proposition design → Portfolio engine → Trading integration → Investor experience → Operations.
- What affects the cost?
- Banking, card, payment and KYC partners to integrate
- Ledger and reconciliation complexity
- Number of currencies, countries and payment rails
- Compliance, reporting and audit requirements
- Mobile, web and back-office scope
- Availability and disaster-recovery targets
- How long does it take?
- A regulated-market MVP usually takes 4–7 months including partner integrations; extensions to an existing platform can ship in weeks.
- How do I get started?
- Share a short brief in the form below, book a 30-minute call or message us on WhatsApp. A senior engineer replies within one business day; NDA on request.
Capabilities
What we deliver
Account opening
Digital onboarding with appropriateness checks.
Trading UI
Web and mobile trading with real-time updates.
Market data streaming
Low-latency quotes and depth.
Order types
Market, limit, stop and conditional orders.
Risk & margin
Buying power and margin monitoring.
Back-office integration
Clearing, custody and statements.
Architecture
Engineered right from day one
The layers we typically design for investment & wealth technology, adapted to your stack and partners.
- Data accuracyPositions reconciled daily against custodian records.
- Market data licensingDisplay and redistribution rules respected by design.
- Suitability workflowsRisk profiling and suitability checks captured with audit trails.
- Performance at openOrder and data systems sized for market-open spikes.
Delivery
How an engagement runs
- 1
Proposition design
Target investors, products, advice model and partner custodians and brokers.
- 2
Portfolio engine
Positions, valuations, performance and fee calculation.
- 3
Trading integration
Order flows, execution partners and reconciliation.
- 4
Investor experience
Onboarding, dashboards, reporting and notifications.
- 5
Operations
Back-office, corporate actions and statement generation.
Security
Security built into delivery
Controls we apply by default on this kind of work — not a separate phase at the end.
Ledger integrity
Double-entry, immutable journals and daily reconciliation against partners.
Idempotent money movement
Every payment operation safe to retry, with no double-spend.
Access control
Maker-checker approvals, least privilege and full audit logging.
Data protection
Encryption in transit and at rest, tokenised card data and PCI-aware architecture.
Technology
Tools we use for this
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FinTech Engineering Team
Engineers experienced in ledgers, money movement and financial partner integrations.
Work & insights
Related thinking
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Learn moreFAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do you handle market-open traffic spikes?
Through horizontally scalable services, caching, queue-based order intake and load testing against peak scenarios.
Do you provide clearing?
No. Clearing and custody are provided by licensed partners integrated into the platform.
Do you provide investment advice?
No. We build the technology for advice and investment products. Advice, suitability rules and investment decisions are the responsibility of licensed firms using the platform.
Can you integrate with multiple custodians?
Yes. Custodians and brokers are integrated through adapters so the platform can work with more than one.
Next step
Get Exchange Development Estimate.
Tell us about your digital brokerage platform requirements — goals, timeline and constraints. We will reply with questions, an approach and next steps.
- Senior engineer reads every enquiry
- Reply within one business day
- NDA on request
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