Laurus Africa
A fast, credible website for a brokerage serving banks, institutions and retail investors, with a research hub for market insights.
- Finance
- 2025
- Web design & WordPress engineering
The brief
In finance, trust is the product. Laurus Africa offers fixed income, equity and currency trading, research, and corporate advisory to a global client base. The site needed to feel as considered as the firm's research.
What I built
- A restrained, editorial design system: generous whitespace, confident type, and no stock-photo clichés
- An Insights hub for equity research (CAL Bank, Kasapreko and others), inflation updates and monetary-policy notes, structured so analysts can publish on their own
- Service pages organised around how clients actually buy: by asset class and by client type
Performance
The site is tuned with WP Rocket caching and the Speculation Rules API, which prerenders likely next pages so navigation feels instant, even on slower connections.
Accessibility
Semantic headings for long research pages, readable line lengths, data that is never conveyed by colour alone, and keyboard-reachable navigation throughout.