Case Study: Global Investment Bank achieves 3–5x throughput and 75% lower operating costs with InterSystems Data Platform

Global Investment Bank Speeds Up Its Equity Trading System with InterSystems Data Platform

A leading global sell‑side investment bank with 50,000 employees and over $1 trillion in assets faced conflicting requirements for its transaction management and analytics platform: it needed to reliably process billions of daily orders (with headroom for extreme market spikes) while simultaneously servicing analytic queries from 250 applications. Their previous in‑memory DBMS struggled with performance and availability during peak loads, prompting a redesign to meet rapid growth and high‑availability demands.

The bank migrated its equities trading system to InterSystems Data Platform, achieving a 3–5x increase in throughput, a 10x performance improvement, and a 75% reduction in operating costs, while enabling more order data in analytics. The new architecture is linearly scalable with no single point of failure and has sustained all trading days — including major market shocks — with zero performance or reliability issues, positioning the bank for continued growth.