Notes from the desk.
Research notes and engineering write-ups from the people who build, test and run our systems. No content marketing — only work that survived review on a live desk.
What we're writing.
Notes currently in preparation span each side of the practice: markets, engineering and operations.
Regime awareness in systematic FX
Volatility regimes reshape the behaviour of FX signals long before the damage shows up in performance. We outline how we detect regime shifts in production, and what changes when a strategy knows which market it is trading in.
What a family office should demand from its software
Most family-office tooling is a patchwork of products that were never designed to share a data model. We set out the standards we hold our own platforms to — one source of truth, full auditability, and a system the whole desk actually lives in.
Reconciliation as a first-class system
Reconciliation is usually treated as a back-office chore, run at the end of the month and trusted on faith. We argue for treating it as core infrastructure — automated, continuous, and visible to the people whose numbers depend on it.
First notes publish soon.
We publish when the work clears internal review — not on a content calendar.
The notes above are being prepared for publication and will appear here first. In the meantime, most of our research circulates privately with clients and partners. If a topic above is relevant to your desk, request a briefing and we'll walk you through the work directly.
Read the research before it's public.
Our private research goes to clients and partners first. Tell us what your desk is working on and we'll share what's relevant.