Case Study: Top 5 Investment Bank achieves a single source of truth and real-time global derivatives risk monitoring with MarkLogic

Top 5 Investment Bank Achieves Single Source of Truth

A top-five global investment bank whose derivatives desk handles over one-third of the world’s derivatives trades faced fragmented, duplicated and inconsistent data across multiple regional relational databases. The legacy systems were slow, required batch processing, and could not deliver the real-time alerts and consolidated view of market and counterparty credit exposure needed for timely risk management and regulatory reporting.

The bank consolidated its derivatives trade store onto a single MarkLogic platform, replacing 20 disparate servers and legacy Oracle/Sybase installations. The new system delivers subsecond updates and real-time alerts, enables complex changes in hours rather than months, provides accurate, enterprise-wide risk metrics for regulators and stress testing, and cuts operations costs (one system and one DBA instead of many), while freeing the bank to apply the same approach to other data domains.