Trading Firms & Capital Markets
Trading Firms & Capital Markets
Trading organizations operate at the intersection of speed, leverage, technology, and judgment—where small system misalignments can compound rapidly.
Mahwikizi & Co. supports boards, partners, and senior leadership by examining how trading systems, controls, and human decision-making interact under real market conditions.
Our work focuses on how risk actually manifests, not how it is modeled on paper.
Relevant Services
Front-to-Back Trade Flow Reviews
Trading Control & Escalation Path Diagnostics
Post-Incident / Near-Miss System Reviews
Model Governance & Override Pathway Assessments
Post-Implementation Drift Assessments
How We Engage
Our engagements are diagnostic-first, non-attributive, and designed for fiduciary oversight, not trader surveillance or performance management.
We help leadership teams understand:
Where speed has outpaced control
Where responsibility is diffused across technology, risk, and operations
Where “known issues” quietly accumulate systemic exposure
We do not evaluate individual trading decisions.
We examine system behavior under pressure.
Common Triggers for Engagement
Boards and partners often call us when they observe:
Repeated limit breaches, overrides, or exceptions
Technology upgrades that increased complexity instead of resilience
Incidents labeled as “one-off” that feel structurally familiar
Growing dependence on manual controls in high-speed environments
Regulatory or counterparty scrutiny without a clear internal diagnosis
Board-Level Value
Mahwikizi & Co. helps fiduciaries answer questions that internal reporting often cannot:
Where does risk concentrate between functions?
Which controls are real—and which are procedural?
What failure modes are plausible but currently invisible?
Which issues merit board attention now versus monitoring later?