Monument Securities

“CONTEMPORARY worked with us to eliminate the risks inherent in adopting new technologies.”

Monument Securities Limited was formed in 1991 as an independent institutional and corporate broker. In 2006 the company became part of the Insinger de Beaufort group of companies. After a successful two years with Insinger and following a management buy-out, Monument again became an independent company and now has a close association with Oakley Capital Private Equity.

Monument's customer base is institutions, fund managers, market professional, corporate and hedge fund clients. The sectors covered are primarily equity markets, equity and index derivative markets and fixed income both underlying and derivatives.  Since inception, Monument’s business model has been one of steady growth with a focus on providing an excellent service to customers.

The Challenge

A project to replace the existing Management Information System (MIS) was started when Monument was part of the Insinger group. Insinger was planning to increase its presence into London trading activities and needed an MIS and data warehouse to capture and manage the group’s activities which included a large retail and private investor client base. “All of our products and services have different characteristics and clients,” explained Kevin Grover, the Technical Lead at Monument. “The ways in which costs and monies are captured and accrued varies enormously and although our existing MIS could handle Monument’s requirements, the increase in group activities needed a more powerful and flexible solution.”

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Quick Facts


Industry: Financial

Business Plan:  To replace an existing Front Office reporting system with a data warehouse and reporting solution that would provide sales specialists, managers and directors with the information and reports that they needed, when they needed them.

The Result:  A scalable and flexible MIS that lays the foundation upon which Monument can deploy further Business Intelligence capabilities, including management level reporting,  the management and control of execution desk services, and the generation of high level directors’ reports.

Products:  SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Relational Database, Microsoft Business Intelligence applications.
“Throughout the project, CONTEMPORARY have provided high calibre, experienced individuals who were particularly helpful during the planning and organisational stages, ensuring that our solution went live on time and to budget.”

Kevin Grover, 
Technical Lead,
Monument Securities