Global derivatives expertise Futures First sits within the Hertshten Group with extensive international derivatives market experience across global exchanges, creating an opportunity to partner on advanced trading technology, risk analytics, and regulatory-compliant workflow solutions tailored for high-performance desks.

Data-driven trading ops Their current tech stack includes Plotly Dash and Qlik Sense, continuous delivery practices, and strong Excel-based workflows, indicating readiness for expanded analytics. Potential upsell for enterprise BI platforms, real-time dashboards, data integration, and data quality services across trading, risk, and back-office operations.

Talent-led capabilities The firm emphasizes recruiting from top universities and values fast, honest, number-driven analysis. This suggests opportunities for training programs, talent analytics, developer enablement services, and recruitment optimization tools or managed services to sustain talent pipelines and productivity.

Secure scalable tech With practices like HSTS and a CD pipeline, there is emphasis on security and reliability. This supports opportunities for cybersecurity consulting, DevSecOps, cloud hosting, compliance automation, and secure data pipelines for sensitive derivatives data.

Growth through partnerships As a fast-growing capital markets player with a broad network among leading trading firms, Futures First may benefit from partnerships or white-label solutions, cross-sell of market data feeds, training programs, and joint go-to-market with sister companies in the Hertshten Group.