A common need in trade monitoring platforms is to provide a live feed of individual trading actions and to enrich this view with collated information derived from these actions, such as trade volume since market opening.

This reference architecture paper describes a solution using the Hazelcast In-Memory Computing Platform to ingest, index, and store stock trading data for fast querying. Back office analysts responsible for risk assessment and regulatory compliance get greater visibility into trades in a near-real-time manner without the expense and complexity of a front office system.