Move Fast and Fix Things: Velocity as an Engineering Control in Regulated Markets

"Move fast and break things" was never written with a regulator in the room. Yet standing still is its own form of risk, and in markets that reprice in microseconds, slow is simply another word for wrong. This workshop is about the hardest trade-off in regulated engineering: shipping at pace without ever dropping the ball.

We start where speed is non-negotiable - the pricing engines and event-driven architectures that publish two-sided quotes across thousands of instruments and manage the risk of every trade the moment it is agreed (Dominion).

We then flip to organisational velocity: how a hub-and-spoke SRE model lets dozens of federated teams move independently while still sharing error budgets, SLOs and a common definition of "safe" (Geoff).

From there, what happens when speed outruns your controls - a billion-pound discrepancy hiding in a vast trading dataset, and the thirty-minute race to reconcile the numbers and trace it to source before anyone else does (Arushi).

And finally, the velocity nobody expects: how stopping work speeds you up, as delegating authentication to specialised Identity Providers strips out compliance overhead and hands developer cycles back to the business (Maciej).

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