Strategic Contract Repository
Case Study
Strategic capital markets contract digitisation
The client, a Global Systemically Important Bank successfully mitigated significant audit vulnerabilities and eliminated operational bottlenecks by replacing an aging, unfit-for-purpose contract database. By partnering with Logical Construct to deploy their Lyncs platform, the client fully digitised its complex trading agreements, introducing granular data structures and robust quality controls to support modern risk management and regulatory compliance.
BENEFITS
- 100% Audit Remediation: Successfully closes outstanding audit points by establishing clear data lineage and strict version controls.
- Granular Digitisation: Transforms flat derivatives, repo, and sec lending documents into structured, highly queryable data fields.
- Mitigated Operational Risk: Eliminates manual workarounds and data errors with a purpose-built single source of truth.
- Real-Time Risk Visibility: Empowers risk and collateral teams with immediate access to complex, multi-layered contract clauses.
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CHALLENGE
The institution’s legacy contract database had become a critical operational liability. Over years of use, the infrastructure failed to keep pace with the shifting regulatory and data-granularity demands of modern financial markets.
Key challenges included:
- Poor Data Quality and Granularity: The aging system lacked the capability to capture complex, multi-layered clauses with the granularity required by internal risk models and external regulators. This resulted in fragmented records and manual workarounds.
- Persistent Audit Points: A mounting number of outstanding audit findings highlighted systematic gaps in contract transparency, data lineage, and version control.
- Operational Risk: Without a reliable single source of truth, tracing legal terms and operational obligations across master agreements was slow, error-prone, and labor-intensive.
SOLUTION
- To modernise its infrastructure, the client selected the Lyncs platform by Logical Constructs as its enterprise replacement solution. Lyncs was deployed to ingest, digitise, and modernise the institution’s entire legal architecture.The implementation focused on:
- Comprehensive Domain Coverage: The platform digitised all core trade documentation, seamlessly processing complex agreements across derivatives (e.g., ISDA Master Agreements, CSAs), repo markets (e.g., GMRAs), and securities lending (e.g., GMSLAs), alongside other high-volume trade documentation.
- Purpose-Built Architecture: Lyncs provided a structured, high-granularity schema designed specifically for financial contracts, transforming flat PDF or text data into dynamic, searchable, and queryable data fields.
- Rigorous Data Quality Framework: Built-in validation rules and clear data-lineage tracking ensured that ingested agreements met strict institutional data governance standards.
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