Case study
Cross-border, Asia and global
Investment banking arm of a global banking group
10 years in production
Built to grow into, not out of.
Client
Investment banking arm of one of the world’s largest banking groups
Context
Sustained growth in cross-border trading and institutional mandates
Scope
Post-trade processing and reconciliation at global scale
Tenure
A decade in production since implementation
The outcome
Volume grew. The operating model did not have to.
65%
Faster trade processing
Cycle times cut as cross-border volumes climbed
70%
Less reconciliation effort
Manual matching removed from the daily run
3×
Data volume growth
0.8TB to 10TB absorbed on the same platform
10 years
In production
A decade of continuous operation, no re-platforming
The test
Growth is the hardest thing to design for.
Rising cross-border complexity
More markets, more counterparties and more currencies, each with its own settlement conventions and reporting obligations.
Institutional client demands
Larger mandates bring tighter service expectations - faster confirmations, cleaner reporting, fewer questions.
Data at a different scale
Volumes moved from 0.8TB to 10TB. Reconciliation effort would have scaled with it under a manual operating model.
No appetite for another rebuild
Growth could not be paused for a transformation programme, and the platform had to earn its place year after year.
The result that matters
Ten years of compounding growth, absorbed on one platform - without a second implementation to fund.
What it delivered
Operating leverage, held for a decade.
Throughput
65% faster trade processing. Cycle times shortened while volumes rose, so growth arrived as capacity rather than as backlog.
Cost of control
70% less reconciliation effort. The most labour-intensive function in operations stopped scaling in step with the business.
Scale
Three times the data volume, 0.8TB to 10TB. Absorbed on the same platform, with no proportional increase in the cost of running it.
Strategic position
A decade of expansion, unimpeded. Cross-border volumes, institutional mandates and global market participation all grew without post-trade becoming the reason to slow down.
Partnership
Ten years, one platform, one team. The relationship outlasted the technology cycle it started in – which is the only durable proof a vendor can offer.
Executive takeaway
Judge a platform on the decade, not the go-live.
Any vendor can show you a successful implementation. The harder question is what the platform costs you in year five and year ten, when volumes have multiplied and the market has moved. Here the answer was measured: faster processing, less manual effort, an order-of-magnitude more data, and no second transformation programme.