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Hua Nan Securities Improves Trading System Efficiency by 35% with Azul Platform Prime 

Switching to a high-performance Java platform improved trading performance and at the same time reduced Java infrastructure costs by 30%

Challenge

Hua Nan Securities is a leading financial services company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, whose core businesses include securities brokerage, proprietary trading, underwriting and issuance, wealth management and investment advisory, derivative financial products, online trading and digital platforms, as well as research and analysis reports. The company’s trade return processing system, a strategic application to the business, used a Java-based system that posed several challenges, including:  

  • Performance bottlenecks: The system struggled to handle high volumes of trade return data—as many as 500,000 records at once—impacting trading efficiency and customer satisfaction. 
  • Out-of-Memory (OOM) issues: Diagnosing and resolving intermittent OOM problems was difficult, reducing reliability during peak loads. 
  • Strategic need for speed: Customer satisfaction and trading efficiency were directly impacted by response speed. 

These were critical issues that Huang, Sheng-Chun, Vice President, Information Technology Department, Hua Nan Securities, and his team needed to address. The speed of order reporting directly impacts trading efficiency and customer satisfaction, making it highly strategic. Thus, achieving stable and fast order reporting and optimizing the execution efficiency of customer securities order reports was necessary to fully support the business. 

Solution

After an introduction by Azul’s regional channel partner in Taiwan, Galaxy Software Services Corporation (GSS), Hua Nan Securities evaluated Azul’s award-winning high-performance Java platform, Azul Platform Prime, to solve for the following benefits: 

  • Faster market opens 
  • Maintaining consistency against volatility 
  • Processing market data and executing trades faster 

After the successful evaluation, the company modernized their existing trading system infrastructure—which supports over 20 microservices—by migrating to Azul Platform Prime. 

“GSS served as a key technical advisor throughout our evaluation process,” explained Huang, Sheng-Chun. “With GSS’s professional support and timely communication, we were able to quickly understand the product’s value and build internal consensus, which significantly accelerated our decision-making. From the initial POC through to the actual testing phase, GSS and the Azul team worked closely with us, providing hands-on expertise, architectural considerations, technical support and performance tuning recommendations. The overall deployment went as smoothly as we hoped.” 

Result
  • 35% performance improvement: Benchmark tests with 500,000 transactions showed a 35% boost in order reporting efficiency, with even greater gains for tests involving one million transactions. 
  • Out-of-Memory (OOM) issues eliminated: Platform Prime eliminated previously untraceable memory errors. 
  • 30% hardware cost savings: Improved performance allowed Hua Nan Securities to optimize infrastructure and reduce hardware costs by nearly one-third. 
  • Improved ROI: With faster, more stable trade reporting, the company enhanced both operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. 

“Azul Platform Prime helped us optimize the execution efficiency of customer securities order reporting. This is highly strategic since the speed of order reporting directly impacts trading efficiency and customer satisfaction. Specifically, Platform Prime improved our performance by 35%, which also delivered a 30% reduction in hardware infrastructure costs.”

Huang, Sheng-Chun, Vice President, Information Technology Department, Hua Nan Securities
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