Engagement · Finance · New York + London
Marathon Asset Management. MiFID II, end-to-end.
Data integration that the firm could trust to publish numbers from. A multi-service trading-reporting system to meet MiFID II’s submission requirements. Bloomberg corporate data wired into the compliance monitor. And a portfolio-management codebase taken from suboptimal to testable.
- Client
- Marathon Asset Management
- Sector
- Finance · global credit
- Engagement
- Compliance · trading reports · portfolio mgmt
- Regulatory scope
- MiFID II — trading reports, firm + personal-trade compliance
- Data sources
- Bloomberg corporate data + internal pipelines
- Performed by
- ShiftCTRL
A regulated firm scaling its operational floor.
Marathon Asset Management is an investment management firm, and its MiFID II reporting was still being assembled by hand — where a late or wrong submission isn’t a bug, it’s a regulatory breach. As the firm grew, its data integration, compliance monitoring, and portfolio code had all outgrown the systems holding them. ShiftCTRL rebuilt the layer underneath: reliable integration, automated MiFID II reporting, a sharper compliance monitor, and a portfolio codebase the team could actually test.
Four problems. One regulated environment.
Unreliable data integration.
Inefficient and error-prone integration processes were undermining confidence in the automated workflows underneath financial reporting.
Regulatory compliance — MiFID II.
The firm needed a comprehensive solution to meet MiFID II’s trading-report requirements — timely, accurate submissions to regulatory authorities.
Compliance monitoring sensitivity.
Existing systems lacked the sensitivity to detect potential compliance issues across both firm and personal trades, raising the risk of regulatory breaches.
Portfolio-management code quality.
Outdated systems and suboptimal code quality were limiting the efficiency and reliability of portfolio operations.
Four work-streams, run in parallel.
Robust data integration.
Improved automated workflows. Error-handling at the boundary, with explicit recovery paths.
// IMPACT Integration became reliable enough that the firm could trust its data for critical financial reports and strategic decisions.MiFID II trading-report pipeline.
A multi-service trading-reporting system designed and implemented to automate the generation and submission of trading reports under MiFID II.
// IMPACT Manual reporting errors eliminated. Submissions on time. Regulatory exposure on this surface materially reduced.Bloomberg-backed compliance monitoring.
Bloomberg corporate data integrated into the compliance monitor. The updated systems caught potential compliance issues earlier and more reliably across both firm and personal trades.
// IMPACT Proactive detection of compliance issues, protecting the firm and its clients from regulatory breaches.Portfolio-management codebase upgrade.
Improved code quality, readability, and testability of the portfolio-management system.
// IMPACT More efficient and reliable operations underneath the portfolio team.
Where the regulated floor stands today.
Increased data accuracy.
Reliable integration boosts confidence in financial reports and decision-making.
Regulatory compliance.
Automated trading reporting ensures MiFID II compliance, reducing regulatory risk and protecting the firm’s reputation.
Proactive compliance monitoring.
Earlier detection and resolution of potential compliance issues across firm and personal trades.
Operational efficiency.
Optimized portfolio-management systems improving efficiency and reliability across the team’s daily work.