Engagement overview

Macquarie Bank partnered with TO THE NEW to design and modernize its trade surveillance data ecosystem to meet regulatory and operational requirements. As the organization scaled its surveillance capabilities to handle new producer data and integrate multiple surveillance applications with its in-house case management system, it prioritized a robust, scalable enterprise data platform.

TO THE NEW was engaged to provide comprehensive application design and data engineering services, covering source data analysis, platform architecture, ETL development, orchestration, and performance optimization. The engagement involved close collaboration with internal teams while supporting ongoing business changes, infrastructure migrations, and legacy application modernization.

Our Client

Banking & Financial Services Australia 

Macquarie Bank is an Australian multinational investment banking and financial services group headquartered in Sydney, operating across asset management, banking, capital markets, commodities, and advisory services.
The organization places strong emphasis on risk management, driven by the need for accurate, reliable, and well-governed data across financial operations and regulatory reporting.
 

Macquarie Bank Client

Business objectives

The engagement focused on strengthening the client’s data and surveillance capabilities through scalable platforms, improved integration, and alignment with evolving business needs. 

01

Accelerating adoption of big data technologies to support enterprise-scale surveillance workflows

02

Establishing a robust application and data platform design approach across the surveillance ecosystem

03

Integrating new producer datasets into the enterprise surveillance platform

04

Aligning the platform with evolving business processes and vendor-driven requirements

Business solution

TO THE NEW worked closely with Macquarie Bank to support the design and implementation of a scalable trade surveillance data platform, covering architecture, data engineering, and operational optimization. 

  • Supported architecture reviews for trade surveillance applications, common libraries, and shared services aligned with the organization’s platform modernization roadmap
  • Supported source data analysis, data quality improvements, and enterprise data lake design
  • Designed and developed ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and deliver data into the enterprise platform
  • Automated orchestration workflows to improve performance and processing efficiency
  • Optimized data processing pipelines to handle high-volume trade data within strict time windows
  • Integrated alert generation and delivery with the in-house case management system
  • Supported multiple infrastructure migrations and platform upgrades with minimal disruption
  • Collaborated closely with business and vendor teams to adapt to changing requirements

Business outcomes

The engagement delivered measurable improvements in trade surveillance capabilities, data processing performance, and platform stability across the client’s ecosystem. 

Enabled a scalable trade surveillance data platform to support regulatory monitoring aligned with BFSI technology solutions

4 million records processed in just 8 minutes through automated ETL orchestration and performance optimization

Improved reliability of alert generation and delivery through streamlined end-to-end data workflows

Increased platform stability during infrastructure migrations and upgrades

Accelerated onboarding of new surveillance use cases through reusable application and transformation patterns

Established standardized transformation and delivery services across trade surveillance initiatives

Tech stack

Fornt-End
Backend
Cloud
Adobe Cloud