One of the leading areas of risk for investment banks dealing in derivatives is an inaccurate understanding of the positions they hold. As the volume of trades has grown, and as the variety of derivative instruments has flourished, the prospect of rapidly analyzing all positions has become unattainable for many investment banks.

MarkLogic Server provides a reliable, scalable platform for storing, managing, and analyzing large volumes of trade information in different structures to accelerate the processing of trades, to enable powerful analysis of all positions, and to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of derivatives instruments. This paper describes an approach for the storage, processing, and analysis of derivatives trades that will benefit the investment bank.