Case Study: TD Bank achieves faster agile delivery and left-shifted governance with Sonatype's Nexus Platform

Agile Transformation at TD Bank Nexus Platform Shifts Governance Left

TD Bank, a 150+-year-old financial institution, embarked on an enterprise agile transformation that required more than new processes—it demanded modern tooling and automation. The bank faced a cumbersome build-and-deploy flow with manual non-repudiation, slow, labor-intensive centralized approvals for open-source components, and security tooling that lacked business-risk context.

TD adopted Sonatype’s Nexus Platform (Nexus Lifecycle and Nexus Repository) alongside a modern CI toolchain, shifting governance left, automating component evaluation, and building a firm-wide software bill of materials. The changes enabled engineers to self-serve in minutes, accelerated release cadence, improved risk-based vulnerability management, drove organization-wide DevOps adoption, and effectively eliminated the prior manual approval bottleneck.

TD Bank

Bill McArthur

Development Engineering Lead