Mastek's Snowflake Integration Empowers a Global Investment Firm Unlock Real-Time Data, Risk Visibility & $2M in IT Savings

A global investment firm managing over $500B in assets faced a fragmented data landscape across IBOR, ABOR, OMS, CRM, custodians, and third‑party platforms. These silos hampered efficiency and delayed critical investment decisions.

To overcome rising business and regulatory pressures, the firm set out to modernize its data infrastructure-centralizing investment data on a unified cloud platform. The goal: enable near real‑time visibility, handle growing market data volumes, meet stricter compliance demands, and empower stakeholders with faster, more reliable insights.

Client Snapshot

A leading global asset management firm serving institutional and individual investors worldwide, with over $500 billion in assets under management.

Challenges

The firm struggled with inconsistent investment data-especially around positions, exposures, and market values. These inconsistencies slowed reporting, undermined analysis, and impacted trust in the numbers driving investment strategies.

Its derivatives processes were manual and error-prone, creating operational bottlenecks and compliance risk. Business users lacked access to dynamic reporting and self-service analytics. Most relied on static reports that were often outdated before they were even reviewed.

Without a single source of truth, teams were forced to reconcile data manually-losing time and introducing errors that affected both investor confidence and regulatory readiness.

Solution

Mastek collaborated with the investment firm to build and implement a Snowflake-based cloud data platform as part of its Unified Data Platform initiative. The solution was designed with scalability, security, and diverse stakeholder needs in mind.

All investment-related information-including market, reference, and portfolio data-was centralized into a unified structure. This encompassed security master data, trades, pricing, holdings (both real-time and historical), and performance metrics, providing a solid foundation for analytics.

To reduce manual effort and improve consistency, Mastek enabled real-time accounting capabilities-automating NAV calculations, general ledger feeds, and client reporting processes.

The platform also unlocked performance and attribution analysis down to the security level. Business users could now compare benchmarks, assess strategies across regions and sectors, and easily meet GIPS compliance standards.

In addition, intuitive visual dashboards with drill-down features gave business teams the ability to explore and analyze data independently, without needing constant support from IT.

The Impact

The transformation, powered by Mastek’s Snowflake integration and data modernization expertise, drove real results across the organization:

Portfolio managers gained timely, accurate access to investment data-enabling faster, smarter decisions around positions, exposures, benchmarks, and performance.
Traders executed with greater confidence using validated portfolio and security data-ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Risk teams proactively monitored exposures and ran stress tests to identify potential vulnerabilities.
Compliance and reporting teams generated audit-ready reports faster, with improved regulatory alignment.