MNC Data Solutions
DATA ASSURANCE · 05

Know whether the data supports the analysis.

Data Assurance is analytical confidence infrastructure — not generic pipeline monitoring. It answers whether the evidence base itself can be trusted.

WHAT THE PLATFORM INGESTS

Customer-controlled intake, assured from the first delivery.

Approved customer data enters through a defined, documented implementation scope — typically normalized order and execution records carrying lifecycle status, trader and account identifiers, product and market identifiers, prices, and volumes. Reference-data alignment, identity resolution, and lifecycle mapping fit each delivery to the analytical model, and every delivery is validated against expectations — feeding Data Assurance from day one.

Order lifecycleExecutionsTrader & account identifiersProduct & market identifiersPrices & volumesReference data
END-TO-END DATA ASSURANCE

Reconcile every scoped order. Trace every lifecycle message. Verify every surveillance record.

MNC reconciles business coverage across internal OMS platforms and databases, then proves how every enter, amend, delete, and trade message moved through the surveillance processing chain.

ILLUSTRATIVE DAILY CONTROL
1 · BUSINESS-POPULATION COVERAGEDid every expected entity, desk, market, account, and trading day appear in internal source systems?
A1
EXPECTED SCOPE
2.40M scoped orders
42 entities · 18 desks · 7 markets · 1 trading day
Scope rules + reference data
→
A2
OMS PLATFORMS
2.39M order records
OMS AOMS BOMS C
→
A3
INTERNAL DATABASES
2.38M persisted orders
Order master · execution store · audit history
21K coverage exceptions routed to owners
→
A4
COVERAGE RECONCILED
99.2%
19K scope exceptions

Entity

Desk

Market

Trading day
2 · SURVEILLANCE MESSAGE-LIFECYCLE RECONCILIATIONDid every lifecycle event arrive, normalize, sequence, and reach surveillance processing?
8.73M expected messages
ENTER2.40M
AMEND3.12M
DELETE0.84M
TRADE2.37M
→
B1
DELIVERED TO SURVEILLANCE
8.63M messages
Gateway + feed capture
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B2
NORMALIZED
8.58M messages
Schema + identifiers + timestamps
→
B3
LIFECYCLE RECONSTRUCTED
8.54M messages
Sequence + state + parent/child links
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B4
SURVEILLANCE-PROCESSED
8.49M messages
Eligible for scenarios and analysis
↓↓↓↓
100K missing or late50K schema or mapping failures40K duplicates, gaps, or orphans50K rejected or quarantined
↓
EXCEPTION WORK QUEUE · 240K RECORDS
OWNERAGEROOT CAUSERESOLUTIONRESTATEMENT STATUS
Trading data2hLate fileReceivedRe-run pending
Technology6hSchema breakCorrectedCertified
Surveillance ops1dOrphan amendInvestigatingOpen
DAILY ASSURANCE RESULT
99.2%
Scope coverage
98.9%
Message delivery
98.3%
Lifecycle integrity
97.3%
Processed coverage
⚠ REVIEW REQUIRED
3 open material exceptions
Illustrative metrics
COVERAGE
Expected population vs. OMS and databases
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MESSAGE COUNTS
Enter, amend, delete, and trade reconciliation
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LIFECYCLE INTEGRITY
Sequence, duplicates, gaps, and orphan detection
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PROCESSING OUTCOMES
Accepted, rejected, quarantined, and analyzed
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OWNERSHIP & CERTIFICATION
Assigned, aged, remediated, restated, and signed off
Completeness cannot be proven from received data alone. It requires reconciliation to expected business populations and every downstream surveillance message.
Controls remain traceable by source system, message type, identifier, date, processing stage, exception owner, and certification status.
THE FRAMEWORK

Expected vs. delivered vs. normalized vs. surveillance-processed.

01
Expected
What should have arrived, per scope
→
02
Delivered
What actually arrived
→
03
Normalized
What was structured into the model
→
04
Surveillance-processed
What reached the analysis

Gaps between any two stages are exactly where analytical confidence erodes — and exactly what Data Assurance surfaces. MNC is explicit about the boundary: completeness cannot be proven from received data alone; it requires reconciliation against expected source populations.

CORE ANALYSIS

The questions it answers.

Coverage overview

Were all expected entities, desks, markets, and trading days received?

Message reconciliation

Were message volumes consistent with expectations?

Lifecycle integrity

Were lifecycles complete and in sequence — no gaps, duplicates, out-of-order events, or orphan messages?

Data exceptions

Were records rejected, quarantined, or incompletely mapped?

Exception ownership

Who owns each exception, how long it has aged, and whether resolution and restatement were certified.

WHY IT MATTERS

Missing data is an analytical risk, not an IT ticket.

Missing populations, message gaps, broken lifecycle sequences, and mapping errors silently distort every downstream conclusion. Data Assurance makes those risks visible — to analysts, not just engineers.

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