Case Study: Top Five Investment Bank achieves real-time global derivatives risk visibility and lower costs with MarkLogic

Top Five Investment Bank Reduces Risk and Increases Efficiencies With the MarkLogic Database

A top-five investment bank whose derivatives team handles more than one-third of global derivatives trades needed a real-time, comprehensive global view of its positions. Its legacy relational system—spread across multiple installations—was slow, produced duplicated and incomplete data, and couldn’t deliver timely alerts or scale to meet growing risk-management and regulatory demands.

The bank replaced 20 disparate batch servers with a single MarkLogic operational trade store, creating a unified, high-throughput platform for settlements, ad-hoc queries and reporting. The solution delivered accurate enterprise-wide position aggregation, real-time risk monitoring and faster change cycles (hours vs weeks/months), while reducing costs and staffing (one DBA vs 10), improving availability, reporting and regulatory readiness.