IT Infrastructure Built for the Speed of Markets

Why London Hedge Funds Choose Nerdster

The hedge fund industry runs on technology. Your trading strategies, investor communications, compliance reporting, and operational workflows all depend on infrastructure that cannot fail. Yet too many funds rely on IT providers who treat financial services like any other business — and the results speak for themselves. In 2025, JPMorgan reported that 24% of financial firms experienced a significant cyber breach, and the regulatory landscape has only intensified since.

At Nerdster, we provide hedge fund IT support in London that is built around one principle: your technology should be invisible when it works and immediate when it does not.

Trading Desk Uptime Is Non-Negotiable

When your portfolio manager cannot access the OMS at market open, or your quantitative team loses connectivity to a data feed during a volatile session, the cost is not measured in helpdesk tickets. It is measured in missed trades, lost alpha, and damaged investor confidence.

Our 24/7 trading desk support ensures that critical systems — Bloomberg, execution management, risk platforms, and market data — are monitored continuously. We maintain 99.97% uptime across our hedge fund client base because we engineer redundancy into every layer: network, compute, storage, and connectivity.

FCA and DORA Compliance Without the Overhead

The Digital Operational Resilience Act has changed the compliance equation for every fund operating in or serving European markets. DORA demands documented ICT risk frameworks, regular resilience testing, incident reporting within tight windows, and formal oversight of third-party technology providers.

We handle this for you. Our compliance management service builds and maintains the documentation, testing schedules, and reporting workflows that regulators expect. When the FCA or your fund administrator asks for evidence, it is already prepared.

Cybersecurity Designed for Fund-Level Threats

Hedge funds face targeted, sophisticated attacks. From spear-phishing campaigns aimed at CFOs to ransomware designed to encrypt trade data before market close, the threat landscape is specific and relentless.

Our security approach layers endpoint detection and response, advanced email filtering, privileged access management, and dark web intelligence monitoring into a unified defence. We conduct regular penetration testing and phishing simulations so your team is prepared, not just protected.

Low-Latency Infrastructure That Performs

For quantitative and systematic funds, network latency directly impacts returns. We design and manage low-latency network architectures that optimise connectivity to exchanges, co-location facilities, and prime brokers. Every hop is audited, every path is redundant, and every microsecond is accounted for.

The Nerdster Difference

We are not a generic IT company that happens to have a few financial clients. Hedge fund IT is our core specialisation. Our engineers understand your platforms, your workflows, and the regulatory environment you operate in. We speak your language — from FIX protocol to FCA reporting — and we deliver the kind of support that lets you focus on generating returns, not managing technology.

If your current IT provider has ever asked you what Bloomberg is, it is time to talk to Nerdster.