Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd

Quick summary

Adaptive Financial Consulting is a specialist capital markets technology consultancy founded in 2012, with offices in London, Barcelona, Montreal, New York, and Manila. Adaptive builds bespoke electronic trading systems for global clients, guided by six core values: Innovation, Collaboration, Autonomy, Accessibility, Respect, and Excellence. With an employee-led DEI Committee, an annual DEI Festival featuring expert external speakers, and community partnerships including The Switch, upReach, and MigraCode, Adaptive is an active myGwork employer partner committed to an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work as themselves.

Adaptive at a glance

Founded: 2012
Specialty: Bespoke electronic trading systems for capital markets
Offices: London, Barcelona, Montreal, New York, and Manila
Team size: Over 300 people
Core values: Innovation, Collaboration, Autonomy, Accessibility, Respect, Excellence

What is Adaptive Financial Consulting?

Welcome to Adaptive, where deep capital markets domain expertise meets cutting-edge technology to transform electronic trading. Working in partnership with our clients, we craft truly bespoke trading technology solutions, maximizing cloud opportunities and empowering you to achieve competitive advantage, now and for the future. When you speak with anyone from Adaptive, we could talk about our culture for hours if you give us a chance (apologies in advance!). It's what makes Adaptive such a fantastic place to work. We put great effort into maintaining it, hiring great individuals, and promoting those who truly embody our values.

What is it like to work at Adaptive?

Our company's mission is to build a global company that is a great place to work, driving market evolution through innovative business and technology consulting. As an expert provider and operator of bespoke, real-time electronic trading systems, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of Innovation, Collaboration, Autonomy, Accessibility, Respect, and Excellence. We offer outstanding career opportunities, maintain a healthy work-life balance, and provide a comprehensive benefits package to support the well-being of our employees and their families.

Our core values

• Innovation: We embrace change, encourage feedback, and continuously improve.
• Collaboration: We work closely across teams, share context openly, and make sure everyone can contribute.
• Autonomy: We trust people to use their expertise and judgment to achieve the best results.
• Accessibility: We make complex information clear and accessible so everyone can contribute meaningfully.
• Respect: We listen to different perspectives, act fairly, and build trust through honesty and integrity.
• Excellence: We strive to do our best, learn from one another, and create an environment where people can thrive.

How does Adaptive approach diversity, equity, and inclusion?

Adaptive takes diversity, equity and inclusion seriously. We recognize that diversity and inclusion have not always been at the top of the agenda in our industry, but this is starting to change. We would like to not only harness this change but drive it forward as an example to others within our industry. We understand that with diversity comes great teams, a happier workforce, and, ultimately, better output for our clients.

Our DEI Committee

Adaptive has a voluntary, company-wide DEI Committee: a group of employees who have volunteered to identify ways Adaptive can improve in this space and to drive those initiatives to fruition. The committee is employee-led, so our DEI work is guided by the people who know Adaptive best. It organizes inclusion initiatives across the company, including our annual DEI Festival.

Our DEI Festival

Our annual DEI Festival brings people together to learn from expert external speakers and explore topics that help build a more inclusive, respectful, and supportive workplace. It runs as a series of one-hour sessions over roughly a month. Sessions have explored a wide range of topics, including:

- Social mobility and access to opportunity
- Neurodiversity, disability, and hidden illnesses
- LGBTQ+ inclusion, gender identity, and intersectionality
- Race, ethnicity, and Indigenous perspectives
- Ageism, generational differences, and menopause
- Mental health, grief, addiction, burnout, and resilience
- Inclusive communication, accent bias, and empathy
- Unconscious bias, bystander intervention, and workplace harassment
- Body image, fatphobia, food-related discrimination, and well-being
- Men's mental health and toxic masculinity

What does Adaptive do for LGBTQ+ colleagues?

Our DEI Committee has previously supported internal learning and awareness initiatives focused on LGBTQ+ inclusion, allyship, and gender identity. Our annual DEI Festival has also included sessions focused specifically on LGBTQ+ experience, including Transgender Journey, Caught Between Genders, Can a Drag Queen Change the World?, and Navigating Identity and Migration: A Trans Person's Perspective.

What community partnerships does Adaptive support?

Adaptive supports community partnerships that widen access to opportunity and the technology sector. In London, we provide business mentoring through The Switch and professional mentoring and tech-career workshops through upReach. In Barcelona, our colleagues have volunteered as coding instructors and mentors with MigraCode since 2019, supporting migrants and refugees into tech. We also host CodeWomen and CodeWomen+ workshops and meetups that support women and career changers through technical learning, confidence-building, and networking.