A leading global financial market infrastructure provider partnered with Sparity to modernize enterprise architecture and post-trade operations. By creating a centralized, cloud-ready repository of systems, data flows, and dependencies, the solution enables AI adoption, operational resilience, and faster, safer clearing and settlement across international financial markets.
Client: Financial Service Provider
Services: Architecture Modernization
Year: 2025
Client Overview
The client, a global leader in post-trade financial services, operates highly regulated clearing and settlement systems supporting equities, bonds, and derivatives at massive scale. However, years of incremental system expansion created architectural silos, performance bottlenecks, and limited visibility across operations making modernization urgent and complex.
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Project Objectives
• Build a centralized enterprise-wide architecture repository for all systems, data flows, and post-trade processes.
• Enable modernization, cloud migration, and AI readiness with complete architectural transparency.
• Document legacy system dependencies to reduce risk during system upgrades and business changes.
• Preserve institutional knowledge by capturing system evolution since inception.
• Improve governance and cross-team alignment through standardized architecture documentation.
Technology Stack
Solution
We established a cloud-ready enterprise architecture foundation that provides full visibility into critical post-trade operations.
• Captured and cataloged all systems supporting trade capture, clearing, settlement, netting, corporate actions, and reporting.
• Designed high-level and detailed data flow diagrams in Visio to visualize transactional movement and downstream reporting.
• Built a centralized and governed architecture repository in HOPEX creating a single source of truth.
• Reconstructed legacy architecture by analyzing historical documentation, ensuring accuracy for modernization planning.
• Enabled future modernization by linking architecture assets to cloud strategy, governance standards, and AI transformation goals.
Impact & Benefits
- Achieved enterprise-wide architectural transparency, creating a single, authoritative source of truth for all systems and data flows.
- Enabled accelerated modernization planning with a clear, governed architecture foundation.
- Preserved critical institutional knowledge by capturing legacy system interactions and dependencies.
- Strengthened cross-team collaboration across architecture, application, and database teams through shared, actionable insights.
- Boosted operational efficiency by simplifying impact analysis for change requests, integrations, and compliance initiatives.
Key Highlight
This transformation provided the client with a modern, governed, and future-ready enterprise architecture, positioning them to confidently advance into cloud modernization, operational resilience initiatives, and AI-powered innovations while maintaining the stability of global financial markets.
