Case studiesGlobal custodial bank

Onboarding 90% faster, at half the unit cost — for a decade.

A global custodian standardized data from 125 sources across 17 currencies onto OpenFinance, automated its client reporting, and never looked back.

A global custodial bank serving top-150 multinational pension plans · ALPHA | OpenFinance
Client
Global custodianTop-150 multinational pensions
Assets
>$1TTotal assets covered, 17 currencies
Onboarding
−90%+Time to bring a client live
Unit cost
~−50%Per client served
The engagementGlobal Custodian

The highest-complexity data in the business — standardized to one schema.

The client is a global bank serving the largest institutional investors, including pension plans for the top-150 multinational organizations. Its custody data arrived daily and monthly from 125 banks and data providers, in 17 currencies, across multiple benchmark sources and security classifications — the highest-complexity data with steep, unforgiving integration requirements.

OpenFinance implemented its feeds infrastructure with custom outputs flowing both into the bank's own proprietary systems and out to its customers' — harmonizing across complex systems on one or both sides, standardizing every source to one comprehensive common schema, and eliminating manual gathering and scrubbing. The unified record supports the bank's downstream compliance and risk products.

The challenge

  • Deliver daily valuations and performance to end customers.
  • Acquire and standardize data from diverse, competing sources.
  • Normalize everything to one comprehensive common schema.
  • Eliminate manual data gathering and scrubbing entirely.

The approach

  • Standard OpenFinance feeds infrastructure across 125 sources and 17 currencies.
  • Custom outputs mapped into the bank's proprietary downstream systems.
  • Automated acquisition and reconciliation to remove manual handling.
  • A schema built to absorb new sources without re-plumbing the pipeline.
The resultGlobal Custodian

Automated reporting, cheaper every year.

−90%+
Reduction in client onboarding time
~−50%
Reduction in unit costs per client
>99.5%
Production uptime & accuracy SLAs
10+ yrs
In production and developed against

The platform let the bank launch an automated web reporting system across its entire customer base — and kept paying off, with follow-on projects expanding it into more services over more than a decade.

On the OpenFinance platformGlobal Custodian
Aggregation

125 sources, one intake

Daily and monthly custody feeds from 125 banks and data providers, across 17 currencies.

Harmonization & QA

One common schema

Diverse, competing sources standardized and reconciled to a single comprehensive model.

Automation

No more scrubbing

Manual gathering and scrubbing eliminated, cutting onboarding time and unit cost.

Secure delivery

To the bank and its clients

Custom outputs feeding both the bank's own systems and its customers' — powering downstream compliance and risk products.

TopicsGlobal Custodian
Risk Compliance Multi-currency Financial institution Bank Insurance Complex Integration Onboarding QA Reconciliation Custodian OpenFinance Information Systems integration

Standardize once. Save for a decade.

Client anonymized. Drawn from a Digital Financial engagement, now delivered as ALPHA | OpenFinance; efficiency figures as reported by the client.