About the Client
The Central Repository for Small Business Lending Intelligence
This leading financial services trade association represents 145 major financial institutions in small business lending. The organization operates a central repository for aggregating loan performance data — critical infrastructure for the risk management products underpinning billions of dollars in lending decisions.
Challenges & Objectives
A Mainframe at End of Life, Unable to Scale
- An outdated legacy mainframe system nearing end of life and unable to meet increasing transaction volumes and member demands
- The legacy system struggled to support over 40 million monthly transactions from 186 data pipelines across 145 financial institutions
- The system lacked scalability, security, and required a complete overhaul to meet modern compliance and performance demands
Solution
Cloud-Native Architecture Built on First Principles
- Modern Data Architecture on AWS — Nexus Cognitive partnered with Cloudera to design and build a scalable platform on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
- First-Principles Design — Open-source technologies including NiFi, Iceberg, Airflow, Spark, Kubernetes, and Ranger composed into a purpose-built solution
- Collaborative Delivery — Deep collaboration between Nexus and association stakeholders at every stage ensured operational continuity throughout migration
Results
Complete Transformation — Every Member Contributing from Day One
40M+
Monthly transactions processed on new cloud architecture
Sub-sec
Web application response times — dramatically faster than legacy
70%
Of monthly data processed within the first 10 days of each cycle
145
All member institutions contributing data to the new system