CLIENT SUCCESS #1

Stabilising a Global Equities Trading & Clearing Business Under Regulatory Pressure

This engagement highlights Fifth Logic’s ability to step into high-pressure, high-stakes situations and rapidly restore order, trust, and momentum. Our combination of strategic leadership, technical depth, and operational execution ensures that critical transformations are delivered with confidence—even under the most challenging conditions.

Client Background

Our client is a major global equities trading, clearing, and custody business responsible for clearing a substantial proportion of ASX transactions every day. As a critical market participant, the organisation operates under intense regulatory oversight, high transaction volumes, and the need for absolute operational reliability.

The Challenge

The business was in the midst of a full back-office platform replacement—a complex, high-risk transformation program—when the project began to stall.

The replacement program was off track, with missed milestones, technical misalignments, and strained vendor relationships.
Operational processes were not yet aligned with the new platform’s capabilities, creating friction in daily operations.
The organisation faced significant regulatory scrutiny, with frequent and complex enquiries requiring fast, accurate responses.
Client relationships were under pressure as users adapted to the changes.

The leadership team needed an experienced, trusted partner to restore control, rebuild confidence, and execute a credible recovery plan—both internally and externally.

Our Approach

Fifth Logic was engaged to provide expert leadership, hands-on execution, and safe, experienced delivery across multiple fronts. Our work included:

Interim CIO Leadership – Embedding an experienced technology executive to oversee the program, stabilise governance, and re-establish delivery discipline.
Technical & Project Leadership – Correcting the course of the back-office platform replacement, resolving critical design and delivery issues, and driving the project to viable completion.
Process Alignment – Streamlining and redesigning operational processes to work seamlessly with the new platform, removing inefficiencies and mitigating operational risk.
Vendor Relationship Reset – Rebuilding trust and accountability with platform vendors to improve delivery performance and communication.
Regulatory Engagement Support – Coordinating the collation and submission of responses to regulator enquiries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and full compliance.
Client Transition Management – Working closely with clients to help them adapt their own processes to the new platform, maintaining service quality and confidence.

The Outcome

Within months, the program was stabilised and moving forward under renewed governance and clear priorities. The leadership team, clients, and regulators all reported improved confidence in the business’s ability to deliver:

Regulatory Confidence – Demonstrated capability to respond to complex enquiries, reducing regulatory pressure.
Operational Readiness – Back-office processes aligned with the new platform, enabling smoother operations.
Vendor Accountability – Restored delivery performance through improved vendor collaboration.
Client Trust – Positive engagement with clients minimised disruption and reinforced relationships.
Executive Assurance – Management had a clear line of sight over delivery and risk, enabling better decision-making.

CLIENT SUCCESS #2

Delivering a Next-Generation Industry Data Platform for a Financial Regulator

This engagement demonstrates Fifth Logic’s ability to bridge technical depth with program leadership to deliver critical, high-impact transformations in highly regulated environments—ensuring stakeholders at every level gain confidence in delivery and outcomes.

Client Background

Our client, a national financial regulator, oversees compliance and reporting for more than 4,000 financial institutions. At the heart of its operations is an industry-wide data platform that enables the secure collection, processing, and analysis of regulatory data across the sector.

The Challenge

The regulator initiated a multi-million-dollar, multi-year program to replace its core industry data platform. While the internal team had deep expertise in operational data processing, delivering a high-complexity, mission-critical platform replacement required specialised program delivery capability. An international technology vendor had been selected, along with a local integration partner, but the scale, integration challenges, and stakeholder impact demanded experienced leadership and assurance.

Our Approach

Fifth Logic was engaged initially to provide technical architecture oversight, ensuring the proposed solution aligned with the regulator’s strategic, operational, and compliance objectives. As the program progressed, our role expanded to include:

Overall Program Leadership – Driving delivery governance, risk management, and execution to keep the program on track.
Implementation Strategy – Defining a practical, phased approach to minimise operational disruption and regulatory risk.
Data Conversion Leadership – Designing and executing robust migration processes to transition critical industry data with integrity.
Solution Architecture – Ensuring the end-state solution was scalable, secure, and fit for purpose.
Vendor Management – Coordinating effectively between the international vendor, local partner, and internal teams to maintain quality and momentum.

The Outcome

The program was delivered successfully, on time and to specification, providing the regulator and the financial industry with a modern, resilient data platform. Benefits included:

Improved Data Quality & Reliability – Enabling more accurate regulatory oversight.
Enhanced Scalability & Security – Supporting the regulator’s mission in a rapidly evolving financial sector.
Smooth Transition – Minimised disruption to 4,000+ financial institutions during cutover.

CLIENT SUCCESS #1

Stabilising a Global Equities Trading & Clearing Business Under Regulatory Pressure

CLIENT SUCCESS #2

Delivering a Next-Generation Industry Data Platform for a Financial Regulator

Client Background

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Our client, a national financial regulator, oversees compliance and reporting for more than 4,000 financial institutions. At the heart of its operations is an industry-wide data platform that enables the secure collection, processing, and analysis of regulatory data across the sector.

The Challenge

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Our Approach

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Fifth Logic was engaged initially to provide technical architecture oversight, ensuring the proposed solution aligned with the regulator’s strategic, operational, and compliance objectives. As the program progressed, our role expanded to include:

Overall Program Leadership – Driving delivery governance, risk management, and execution to keep the program on track.

Implementation Strategy – Defining a practical, phased approach to minimise operational disruption and regulatory risk.

Data Conversion Leadership – Designing and executing robust migration processes to transition critical industry data with integrity.

Solution Architecture – Ensuring the end-state solution was scalable, secure, and fit for purpose.

Vendor Management – Coordinating effectively between the international vendor, local partner, and internal teams to maintain quality and momentum.

The Outcome

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The program was delivered successfully, on time and to specification, providing the regulator and the financial industry with a modern, resilient data platform. Benefits included:

Improved Data Quality & Reliability – Enabling more accurate regulatory oversight.

Enhanced Scalability & Security – Supporting the regulator’s mission in a rapidly evolving financial sector.

Smooth Transition – Minimised disruption to 4,000+ financial institutions during cutover.