Post-Acquisition Platform Integration
3rd March 2026 ·
Albany Beck partnered with a leading global wealth management firm to support the seamless integration of a recently acquired UK-based business into a new global platform. The engagement centred on a complex IT ecosystem migration covering over 500 applications, with a focus on cyber security, data governance, and engineering alignment to meet stringent regulatory and operational standards.
Challenge
The client required all applications within the integration to meet strict internal and industry standards, ensuring cyber control compliance, operational continuity, and readiness for onboarding more than85,000 clients. Key challenges included:
- Migrating a large, hybrid IT environment (SaaS, cloud-based, third-party, and on-premises systems)
- Ensuring all applications met regulatory, risk, and cyber security requirements
- Coordinating across diverse business units under tight timelines
- Delivering the migration within the programme schedule while maintaining full business functionality
Approach
Albany Beck prioritised the highest-risk applications and established a dedicated programme delivery structure, acting as design authority across all workstreams. Key actions included:
- Conducting end-to-end application analysis covering data strategy, dependencies, architecture, and risk impacts
- Embedding cyber security protocols and access controls into all remediation workstreams
- Deploying cross-functional teams spanning engineering, technology, and risk to validate integration requirements and ensure compliance with internal standards
- Implementing a robust governance model to manage approvals, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across executive and technical teams
Solution
Albany Beck delivered a structured remediation and integration programme across technology and cyber domains:
- Remediation of 500+ applications, ensuring alignment with cyber, risk, and regulatory standards
- Ensuring on-time migration of critical systems with zero disruption to business operations
- Embedding cyber and access management controls within the bank’s long-term technology framework
- Strengthening engineering alignment across business units through structured design authority and
technical validation - Establishing a sustainable continuous improvement process for ongoing assurance and compliance
- Enhancing internal capability by documenting key technical artefacts, data models, and testing standards for future migrations
Outcomes
- Delivered a successful remediation of 500+ applications, meeting cyber, risk, and regulatory standards
- Ensured on-time migration of critical systems with zero disruption to business operations
- Embedded cyber and access management controls within the bank’s long-term technology framework
- Strengthened engineering alignment across business units through structured design authority and technical validation
- Established a sustainable continuous improvement process for ongoing assurance and compliance
- Enhanced internal capability by documenting key technical artefacts, data models, and testing standards for future migrations
Client testimonial
“Albany Beck quickly became an essential partner, bringing the right mix of Change and Technology expertise, especially across our more specialist areas in cyber and data. They’ve been great to work with and made a real impact from day one”
– Head of Technology