A Quod Financial initiative to solve the FIX problem
Quod Financial's twenty-year FIX Fabric journey, and where Quazar fits in it.
Twenty years of FIX, rebuilt for the AI era.
Quod Financial has built and run three generations of FIX connectivity and routing software, for our own business, at production scale.
Along the way we have navigated thousands of inbound and outbound gateways across disparate networks and routes. The problems are always the same: varying versions, dialects and rules; custom mapping and routing rules for each order flow; and labour-intensive certification. Networks are frequently proprietary with little cloud capability, and specifications are often out of date, errors that only surface during certification.
The result is familiar. Engineering teams end up as glorified IT support, spending weeks debugging tags instead of building trading infrastructure.
Quazar applies the 10x rule to FIX. A deterministic, low-cost, low-compute layer that lets AI manage the complexity underneath, built on a cloud-native architecture designed to absorb scale at a fraction of the traditional cost. Whether you run a handful of connections or automate thousands of routes, you stop fighting the infrastructure.
Quazar is a Quod Financial initiative to solve the FIX problem. It is built, supported, and operated by Quod Financial, an owner-managed trading technology company with over two decades of FIX connectivity and trading systems experience. It is written in C++ for performance and reliability.