From Turrets to Microsoft Teams: Seamless Trading Communications

Are your traders and support teams truly connected—or just working under the same roof?

Voice remains at the heart of the trade lifecycle. It drives market discovery, accelerates execution, and provides a vital audit trail for risk and compliance teams. Yet as communications evolve, many trading floors are finding that their infrastructure hasn’t kept pace.

A Changing Communications Landscape

For decades, trading floors invested heavily in physical turrets—ensuring traders and back-office teams operated on the same secure, integrated systems. This minimized inefficiency and kept colleagues aligned in fast-moving markets.

But today, the picture is more fragmented.

• Traders still rely on turrets for speed, resilience, and regulatory-grade recording.
• Support teams —Analysts, Risk, Compliance, and Settlements—are increasingly operating on adjacent platforms such as Microsoft Teams.

The result? slower decision-making, and added operational risk when the two worlds struggle to connect.

Bridging the Divide

For traders, simplicity is everything. They want a single, unified directory—customers and colleagues together—accessible directly from their turret.

That’s where comitFS makes the difference.

• A trader searches by name, clicks, and calls a Teams colleague or group.
• The CAS BOT handles the process in the background, inviting the right Teams identities (via email address) onto the call
• Critically: 100% of the media remains on the turret, ensuring compliance and eliminating duplication.

Real-World Benefits for Capital Markets Banks

• Productivity: Traders collaborate instantly with support teams without breaking focus or switching devices.
• Compliance Simplicity: All calls remain on the turret infrastructure, keeping the regulatory perimeter intact.
• Cost Efficiency: No need to duplicate voice recording systems for Teams—compliance-grade recording stays where it belongs.

The Outcome

With comitFS, trading floors can finally unify their traders and support colleagues—wherever they sit—without compromising speed, compliance, or client outcomes.

Reach out to the comitFS team for a demonstration.