Choose Your Role

You probably didn’t come here to read 178 pages cover to cover. Pick the role below that matches your job. Each one points at a 5–10 page reading path through this site — the pages that will actually help you, in the order that builds context. Skip the rest with permission.

Pick a role

Product Manager Scoping a product or re-platform. You need the end-to-end flow, vendor tradeoffs, lifecycle complexity.

Backend Engineer Building integrations with KRA, exchanges, depository, clearing corp. You need the DAG, the fields, the SLAs.

Frontend / UX Engineer Building the screens. You need fields, validations, error states, and what happens after submit.

Operations Lead BOD scripts, intraday surveillance, EOD reconciliation, cycle items piling up by month-end.

Head of OMS / RMS The layer between order-entry and exchange. Pre-trade pipeline, peak margin, surveillance.

Compliance Officer / CCO Half-yearly compliance certificates. You need every obligation, every evidence artefact, every circular.

Finance / CFO Capital framework, brokerage economics, settlement guarantees, funds upstreaming, protection mechanisms.

Internal Auditor Scoping the half-yearly internal audit with a defensible checklist and regulator-aligned tests.

Statutory Auditor (CA firm) Annual statutory audit. What to ask the broker for, where the documentation lives.

Trainee / New Employee You started this week. By the end of this reading list you'll know what BOD, SPAN, and peak margin mean.

Regulator / Inspector Prepping for an inspection. How a broker maps obligations to evidence, which deep-dives go beyond surface compliance.

Vendor / Integration Partner Talking to a broker about integration. Where you fit in the dependency graph; which fields you touch; what SLA matters.

Not finding your role?

The 12 above cover the most common readers but they overlap. Two heuristics if you’re between two roles:

• You build software → start with Backend Engineer or Frontend / UX Engineer.
• You sign things that the regulator might inspect → start with Compliance Officer.
• You sign things that affect the firm’s capital → start with Finance / CFO.
• You explain the firm’s broker-ops to someone outside the firm → start with Operations Lead.

You can also skip the persona layer entirely and use the sidebar — that’s how the site was organized before this layer was added. It still works.

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2026-05-14

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