Business Development

As trading firms look to enter new markets, they are often faced with a multitude of issues to resolve before trading can begin. These issues typically involve several of the following questions:

What is the regulatory climate like and how does it impact our prospective activities?
What corporate structure should we employ to optimise results?
Which brokers are most capable and best equipped to handle our trading?
What order types are possible ?
How many orders can I send (or cancel) and with what frequency?
What are exchange fees for different order types and how do those fees differ based on volume, status, etc.?
Are rebates offered ? How are those rebates calculated?
How can we procure, deploy and manage infrastructure most efficiently in the local market?

RETHYMOS helps answer these questions, with a breadth of knowledge of different trading venues globally.

Exchanges are always looking to deploy global "best practices" in an ongoing effort to maintain venue fairness to all investors. The nature of best practices is dynamic, and constantly evolving. RETHYMOS assists exchanges in providing guidance related to:

Regulatory Issues
Exchange technology
Market surveillance
Peer group comparison and relevance

In essence, we can help point exchanges in the right direction, provide assurance or confirmation about a particular set of best practices, and introduce you to key market participants who can help.

Fintech vendors, particularly new entrants, face the daunting task of trying to get their story told to the key market participants globally. The challenges involve end user target identification, access to those end users, ensuring the message is communicated professionally, accurately and with credibility. We can assist vendors through:

Market Entry Strategy
Competitive environment and product positioning
Target Identification
Introductions to key end user prospects
Channel Development
Liaising with management and internal sales personnel
Use of trade shows and social media to complement sales efforts

We can assist vendors in rising above the clutter to get your message heard by the market participants that matter most to your business.

RETHYMOS Business Development and Strategy Assistance in Depth

Financial markets and the technologies deployed to access and operate them have evolved dramatically since the first electronic trade was processed by Stockholm Exchange in 1990.

Innovation in the vertical continues at a rapid pace, with new products and technologies developing globally. Innovators face enormous challenges in ensuring their ideas are presented to prospective end users and intermediaries. Access to key market participants can be daunting at best, even impossible at times. End users face a different set of challenges – keeping abreast of the latest technologies, innovations and services which can help ensure their continued success and market edge. These challenges are magnified by the global nature of both capital markets, location of innovators and their prospective clients.

Enter RETHYMOS. A small group of professionals focusing on financial and capital markets as well as technology, with backgrounds that include trading, advisory and strategy, have combined to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers. With a strong understanding of market trends, market structure, new technologies and related performance metrics, as well as access to hundreds of the world’s leading market participants, RETHYMOS is well positioned to assist both buyers and sellers in connecting.

The RETHYMOS advisory model is simple. We seek out best of breed solutions and innovations and work collaboratively with developers and groundbreaking companies to introduce their efforts to key market participants globally. We research, assess and evaluate the merits of a product or offering, and develop strategies to assist the originators in bringing those solutions to the attention of key decision makers in end user organizations. Our work is always customized – we have yet to run across an assignment that allows us to use a cookie cutter approach or pull a template off the proverbial shelf.

On the contrary, we develop a deep understanding of an innovator’s value proposition and objectives, and work closely and collaboratively with the company to ensure the value propositions are presented and heard by decision makers in the right target audience. With a presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, and key vendor and client end user relationships across all market centres globally, RETHYMOS is not only strategically positioned to add value, but our geographical coverage further enables connecting market participants throughout the world.