CJC

Name

CJC

Legal name

Crown Jewels Consultants Ltd

Website

https://cjcit.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Managed Services: CJC provides ongoing, specialist 24x7 monitoring and proactive event alert management for real-time data feeds and infrastructure (data centre or cloud), backed by robust IT service processes for incident ownership and restoration. Services range from Eyes on Glass coverage to fully managed 24x7 services for hundreds of clients globally.
2. Consultancy Services: Advisory and continuity support retainer services for firms with in-house market data teams seeking independent expertise and improved resilience posture. Also provided as one-off review project engagements through to fully managed service arrangements.
3. Cloud Solutions: Cloud enablement and migration services for market data infrastructure, including deployment and testing of market data platforms on cloud environments (e.g., LSEG RTC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).
4. Observability (mosaicOA SaaS): IT analytics and observability SaaS platform providing monitoring, capacity management, and reporting for capital markets infrastructure. Part of CJC's product suite under managed services.
5. Commercial Management: Services for cost control, compliance, vendor management, and commercial governance of market data ecosystems, including DRDM digital contracts, entitlements, and data lineage solutions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

CJC provides consultancy, managed services, and proprietary IT analytics software (mosaicOA) for mission-critical market data infrastructure serving global financial institutions. The company delivers 24x7 monitoring, observability, cloud enablement, and commercial management services across trading and data distribution platforms including Refinitiv RTDS (TREP), Bloomberg B-PIPE, Exegy, Solace, and Kafka. Commercial Management capabilities include DRDM digital contracts, ATUDL data lineage, and DN Hub notifications for market data licensing and compliance.

Product overview

CJC is the leading market data technology consultancy and service provider for global financial markets, offering a portfolio of managed and professional services alongside a proprietary SaaS analytics platform. The core offering is organized around five service pillars: Technical Managed Services (24x7 monitoring and event management for real-time market data infrastructure), Cloud Solutions (cloud-based market data delivery and entitlements), Observability (powered by the proprietary mosaicOA IT analytics platform), Monitoring (ITRS Geneos-based real-time estate monitoring), and Commercial Management (encompassing DRDM digital contracts, ATUDL data lineage, and DN Hub data notifications). CJC also provides DACS-as-a-Service for cloud-based market data entitlements. The mosaicOA platform serves as the central analytics and visualization engine underpinning monitoring and observability capabilities, providing capacity management, predictive analytics, and reporting for capital markets IT infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MosaicOA: A powerful IT analytics SaaS solution that consolidates large data sets together in one place for analyzing critical capital markets infrastructure.
• DRDM

Products and services

• Technical Managed Services Ongoing specialist 24x7 monitoring and proactive event-alert management for real-time data feeds and infrastructure (data centre or cloud), backed by robust IT service processes for incident ownership, problem management, and restoration. Ranges from 'Eyes on Glass' coverage to fully managed 24x7 services delivered globally for financial institutions.
• Market Data Continuity Support Advisory and continuity-support retainer services for firms with in-house market data teams seeking independent expertise and improved resilience posture, available from one-off review projects through to fully managed service arrangements.
• Cloud Solutions Cloud enablement and migration services for market data infrastructure, including deployment and testing of market data platforms on cloud environments (e.g., LSEG RTC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), with cloud entitlement controls, multi-region resilience, and immutable infrastructure patterns.
• Monitoring (ITRS Geneos-based) Global real-time IT-estate monitoring using ITRS Geneos and open-telemetry tooling, providing proactive 24x7 event alerting for applications, OS, infrastructure, networking, specialist industry software, and latency feeds; CJC has built advanced tools, plugins, scripts, and automation on top of ITRS Geneos.
• Observability (mosaicOA-powered) IT analytics and observability powered by CJC's proprietary mosaicOA platform, providing capacity management with accurate projections, indefinite storage for long/short-term analysis, problem management with event replay, trend identification, and data visualisation and reporting for capital markets infrastructure.
• mosaicOA (Cloud-based IT Analytics SaaS) Proprietary cloud-based IT analytics SaaS platform that consolidates large data sets into a single interface for analysing critical capital markets infrastructure. Provides pre-built dashboards for Bloomberg BPIPE, Refinitiv RTDS, Exegy, Quant House, Kafka, and Solace; capacity management with predictive busy-day monitoring; event replay; root-cause analysis; PCA-based anomaly detection; and PDF reporting. Deployed on Google Cloud infrastructure.
• Commercial Management (Market Data Cost & Compliance) Services and software for cost control, compliance, vendor management, and commercial governance of market data ecosystems, encompassing the DRDM digital-contracts platform (with AI-driven Intelligent Sales module), ATUDL data lineage tracking, DN Hub data notifications, and DACS-as-a-Service for cloud-based entitlements. Includes FITS inventory-based IT spend transparency workflows.

Quantifiable outcome

• CJC reduced client-generated incident tickets by 42%, enhancing client performance and system reliability through focused problem management and change management.
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Refinitiv (LSEG)coreTechnology or IntegrationCJC is a leading implementation partner for Refinitiv, supporting Refinitiv RTDS (TREP) across 22 geographical locations on thousands of servers. CJC provides DACS as a Service, offering secure entitlements to customers and their partners in the cloud. This is one of CJC's core technology partnerships given RTDS's central role in financial firms' data architectures for over 20 years.
• BloombergcoreTechnology or IntegrationBloomberg is a key platform within CJC's supported technology portfolio. CJC provides monitoring, observability, and managed services for Bloomberg B-PIPE environments. CJC has ready-made mosaicOA dashboards for Bloomberg BPIPE.
• ITRScoreTechnology or IntegrationCJC utilizes ITRS Geneos as the primary monitoring platform for its managed services. CJC has built advanced tools, plugins, scripts, and automation on top of the product's out-of-the-box capabilities, including specialized plugins for Refinitiv, Solace, Kafka, Public Cloud, and Kubernetes.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)coreTechnology or IntegrationCJC partnered with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at WFIC2024 to independently validate LSEG's Real-Time Connector (RTC) performance on OCI. Testing demonstrated that RTC on OCI delivers exceptional performance, low latency, and cost efficiency comparable to bare metal and on-premises systems. CJC confirmed OCI data egress costs can be up to 92% less expensive than other cloud providers.
• LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)coreTechnology or IntegrationCJC partnered with LSEG to test LSEG's Real-Time Connector (RTC) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. CJC is an implementation partner for LSEG's RTC, demonstrating RTC's cloud-native performance and OCI integration capabilities. LSEG RTC is a next-gen market data distribution solution designed for cloud environments.
• ExegycoreTechnology or IntegrationExegy is a key market data platform supported by CJC's managed services. CJC has ready-made mosaicOA dashboards for Exegy and provides monitoring, observability, and support services for Exegy-based market data infrastructure.
• SolacecoreTechnology or IntegrationSolace is a core middleware messaging platform supported by CJC. CJC has supported Solace at some of the biggest names in capital markets. CJC supports Solace alongside Kafka for enterprise data distribution, particularly as exchanges move to Kafka-based architectures. Ready-made mosaicOA dashboards are available for Solace.
• KafkacoreTechnology or IntegrationKafka is a core off-the-shelf technology leveraged by CJC for market data distribution support. CJC is particularly active in supporting exchanges as they move from legacy systems to Kafka-based architectures. Ready-made mosaicOA dashboards are available for Kafka environments.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• GreenKey Technologies: GreenKey applies AI and voice/data analytics to capital markets workflows, intersecting with CJC's mosaicOA analytics and AI-driven commercial management capabilities.
• Exactpro: Exactpro specialises in functional and non-functional testing of market data, trading, and post-trade infrastructure, offering complementary infrastructure validation services to capital markets firms.

Direct peers

• Options IT: Options IT is a managed services and cloud provider focused exclusively on capital markets infrastructure, very closely overlapping with CJC's market data monitoring, cloud enablement, and 24x7 support offerings.
• ITRS Group: ITRS is the provider of the Geneos monitoring platform that underpins much of CJC's managed service delivery. ITRS also offers its own professional and managed services for capital markets, making it both a critical partner and the closest direct competitor.
• Vizor Software: Vizor offers data licensing management, compliance, and commercial management software for market data — directly comparable to CJC's DRDM, ATUDL, and DN Hub commercial management suite.
• Beeks Financial Cloud: Beeks provides cloud infrastructure and managed services specifically for capital markets participants, overlapping directly with CJC's Cloud Solutions and 24x7 monitoring for trading and market data workloads.

Broad incumbents

• Raptor/adaptiv.io (smartTrade): Raptor (now part of smartTrade/adaptiv) provides trading and analytics platforms with associated managed services for capital markets participants, offering adjacent infrastructure support comparable in scope to CJC's managed services.
• IPC Systems: IPC is an established provider of communications, networking, and infrastructure services to global financial markets, with overlapping capability in managed services and cloud connectivity for trading environments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cjc_marketdata
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCn7zLVOqt4UKAsn0VkQJ0wg/featured
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cjcltd

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments2 records

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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