Case study · IPSX
Building the digital foundations for the first regulated property exchange
Client Location
IPSX, UK
Technology
Python
Django
Java
C++
Overview
About the project
IPSX, the International Property Securities Exchange, operated the first dedicated exchange globally for commercial property assets. It provided a public stock market solely for the admission and trading of shares in companies owning and managing individual commercial property assets. We were proud to have been appointed to develop their website.
The brief
The challenge
IPSX needed a public facing website to both explain and promote their business as well as display market data from the securities listed on the exchange. The latter requirement was critical as IPSX is strictly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It is a mandatory requirement for an exchange to make trading and financial data on the instruments traded on it available to investors, so developing a robust solution to meet this requirement was paramount to the success of their business. The brief was made even more complex due to additional datasets, such as information relating to the properties (the “underlying assets”) that were being listed, needing to be displayed alongside the market data. Think London Stock Exchange + Zoopla!
What we built
The solution
Through a series of workshops we mapped out an architecture for the website and its environment that the regulators would be satisfied with. The resulting website integrated and displayed data from multiple sources, including:
Results
By the numbers
55%
increase in traffic each year
9,000
monthly visits
It is fundamental to our business success that the website is robust and provides accurate data.
David Beevers
Head of Operations, IPSX
