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StoneX's Results, At-a-Glance
20%more release efficiency | Fastaccess to data | Integrateddata into CI/CD pipelines |
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StoneX's Story
The Challenge: Supporting Always‑On Trading Innovation Without Data Bottlenecks
StoneX delivers a global trading platform that enables institutional and retail traders to access derivatives, equities, FX, and futures from anywhere. To stay competitive, the organization needed to continuously deliver new features and enhancements—without disrupting operations or increasing risk.
However, legacy data processes made it difficult to keep up with the pace of innovation. Large, infrequent release cycles slowed delivery, while manual data handling created friction for development teams. At the same time, strict data privacy requirements meant sensitive data had to be carefully scrubbed before being used in non-production environments.
The team faced several key challenges:
- Slow release cycles that limited the ability to deliver continuous improvements
- Limited access to usable test data, slowing development and testing
- Manual data governance processes that increased compliance risk
- Fragmented visibility across non-production environments
- Balancing speed with security in increasingly complex CI/CD pipelines
To support continuous innovation, StoneX needed a way to deliver fast, secure, and compliant data to developers, without introducing additional operational overhead.
The Solution: Automating Secure Data Delivery for CI/CD Pipelines
StoneX modernized its data infrastructure by adopting virtualization, containerization, and automated data management practices. By implementing Perforce Delphix, the organization built a CI/CD pipeline designed to deliver fast, secure, and compliant data at scale.
This approach aligns with a broader shift toward automated, policy-driven data management, helping teams deliver trusted data wherever it’s needed while maintaining strong governance controls.
The Results: Faster Releases, Improved Efficiency, and Stronger Data Governance
By modernizing its data platform, StoneX significantly improved both development speed and data governance.
Key outcomes included:
20% increase in release efficiency
StoneX increased the number of releases deployed, enabling faster delivery of new features and improvements.
Shift to continuous, iterative delivery
Teams moved from weekly or monthly release cycles to making meaningful updates every day.
Faster access to data for developers
Developers can quickly refresh environments and access the data they need, reducing delays and improving productivity.
Improved compliance and audit readiness
Centralized visibility into non-production environments makes it easier to demonstrate that sensitive data is properly scrubbed.
Higher availability across environments
Reliable access to data ensures development teams are not blocked by infrastructure limitations.
Reduced technical debt and operational overhead
Teams spend less time managing data and more time building and delivering innovation.
As a result, StoneX eliminated data as a bottleneck to innovation. With fast, trusted data delivered on demand, development teams can focus on improving the platform and delivering value to customers, while maintaining strong security and governance standards.
Summary: Deliver Trusted Data for Faster Releases
Modern CI/CD pipelines need fast, compliant, AI-ready data. See how Perforce Delphix helps you automate data delivery, reduce risk, and release faster with confidence.
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StoneX specializes in enabling institutional and retail traders to trade anything, from anywhere. This includes a wide range of derivatives, equities, FX, and futures, all from a single platform.
Innovation excites me. I love seeing innovation in our staff and our technology, and driving change in a responsible, sustainable way.
Solutions like virtualization have helped us run upgrade initiatives very quickly. Containerization has allowed us to separate the operating system from the underlying hardware. This enables us to create private cloud environments. Combined with virtualization, this gives us greater flexibility and agility in how we host our data.
We invested heavily in building a CI/CD pipeline with a strong focus on security. We have automated processes to detect sensitive data in our databases and ensure proper data scrubbing before provisioning to live environments.
One of our key successes has been consolidating datasets into a single view. From a governance perspective, this allows us to track all non-production environments and demonstrate to auditors that data is properly scrubbed.
Modern solutions have enabled us to release iteratively at a much faster pace. Instead of relying on large weekly or monthly releases, we can deliver meaningful improvements every day. This is made possible by flexible data platforms and the services they run on.
When we first deployed Delphix, we increased efficiency by 20% in terms of the number of releases we deployed.
Sustainability is also a key priority. Our success comes from bringing data closer to developers, enabling fast refresh cycles, and maintaining high availability across environments.
As a result, we are no longer a bottleneck to innovation. Our teams can focus on delivering improvements instead of managing technical debt.
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