How SMC Global Rebuilt Its Trading Platforms with AWS | Abhishek Chawla, CPTO

Abhishek Chawla, Chief Product & Technology Officer at SMC Global Securities, shares how the firm undertook a bold, ground-up transformation to overcome the limits of legacy, vendor-built systems and create a future-ready digital trading platform.

SMC rebuilt its entire broking and distribution ecosystem in-house—covering mobile and web platforms, pre-trade systems, middleware, payments, KYC, and mutual funds—while adopting a cloud-first, cloud-native strategy on AWS. Instead of a lift-and-shift, the organization re-architected its platforms using managed services, auto-scaling, multi-AZ resilience, Amazon RDS, EKS, Amazon S3, and an in-house DevSecOps framework integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

The results have been transformational. Order-processing capacity scaled from 10,000 to over 3 lakh orders per day, latency for critical pre-trade workloads improved by up to 90%, and time-to-market accelerated by 40%, while market data platforms now support 15,000+ concurrent users with sub-50-millisecond response times.

As SMC advances its data and AI roadmap, it is building a centralized data lake, deploying an AI-powered chatbot on AWS Bedrock, and exploring spec-driven development using AWS Kiro—laying the foundation for faster innovation, smarter customer engagement, and sustained scalability in capital markets.

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" By rebuilding our platforms cloud-natively on AWS, we’ve scaled from 10,000 to over 3 lakh orders a day, reduced latency by nearly 90%, and significantly improved time-to-market—without compromising reliability or security.” — Abhishek Chawla, CPTO, SMC Global Securities Ltd.