How Religare Broking re-engineered its trading platform for scale, speed, and AI

In capital markets, technology failures are not just operational inconveniences—they directly erode trust. For Religare Broking, repeated disruptions in customer-facing systems became a moment of reckoning, forcing the organization to confront a hard truth: its legacy technology stack was no longer fit for a market defined by real-time decisions, extreme volatility, and digitally native investors.

“The issues were visible to customers almost every day—especially on the mobile app,” says Siddharth Bhat, CTO, Religare Broking. “Stability and user experience had become business-critical problems. That’s when we realized this wasn’t a matter of fixing components; the architecture itself was fundamentally broken.”

When legacy becomes a liability

At the core of Religare’s challenge was an aging infrastructure layered with years of incremental application development. Over time, this had created an ecosystem that was large, fragmented, and increasingly fragile.

“We had two compounding issues,” Bhat explains ...