Category: Financial Services

Connectivity to the FIX and Swift networks have traditionally required on-prem appliances or connectivity solutions which have been roadblocks for companies looking to migrate some of their workloads to the cloud. With the service offerings provided by Bloomberg on AWS for these critical services, those roadblocks are now removed and the cloud journey can continue.

Global inflation is putting pressure on consumers and insurance providers, leading to rising prices, squeezed margins and increased fraud. Learn how the CDL ecosystem on AWS supports both customers and insurers in addressing the global cost of living crisis, scaling to support hundreds of millions of quotes daily and reducing the cost of buying and providing insurance.

Wawanesa migrated their on-premises Guidewire platform to Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP) to enhance digital user experience and leverage cloud agility. They replicated GWCP data to AWS using Database Migration Service, maintaining existing processes while futureproofing operations. This article covers migration challenges, lessons, and outcomes.

Amazon Q and generative BI are transforming business operations, and AWS Partners like ZS Associates, Tiger Analytics, and Compass UOL are pioneering use cases leveraging these technologies to build industry-tailored solutions that improve decision making, operations, fraud detection, software development lifecycles, and more. AWS provides resources to help partners develop and deploy such transformative generative AI offerings.

Instinet is a SaaS-based solution that Ness Digital Engineering built on AWS for the trading and finance industry. It provides technologically advanced brokerage services and helps institutional investors improve performance by reducing complexity and costs. The solution modernized Instinet’s trade processing and solved challenges with Instinet’s previous on-premises, batch-driven architecture.

The evolution of embedded and invisible banking has led to complex integrations between financial organizations and third-party platforms. To simplify identity management across business partners, organizations are investigating identity-as-a-service solutions using blockchain. Capgemini can help implement embedded and invisible banking by leveraging Amazon Managed Blockchain to manage decentralized identities. This provides a single immutable identity for users that scales across sub-units and partners.

Private equity firms are addressing climate change through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies, but data gaps hinder progress. Obtaining consistent emissions data across portfolios is difficult. Gardenia Technologies’ carbon accounting solution on AWS helps private equity groups capture, analyze, and report ESG data at scale. The tool connects to data sources, standardizes outputs, and surfaces insights through interactive dashboards to track progress and guide strategies.

Many institutions in financial services are in the early stages of their cloud journey. While each has their own IT landscape and cloud strategy, one question is common among many organizations: “How can I simplify my data ingest pipelines?” FactSet is a leading provider of financial services market and alternative data that can help consumers access their data in simple and scalable ways, while removing the administrative tasks that do not add value to the business.

In the public sector, organizations are ripe with opportunities to digitize their services and migrate from outdated on-premises systems to protect their data and better utilize it to make informed decisions. Learn how Baker Tilly Digital helped a government contractor develop a serverless procure-to-pay portal on AWS deployed in AWS GovCloud (US). The P2P portal helped automate vendor management, improve the pre-award capabilities, transform the purchase ordering system, and simplify invoicing.

Temenos is one of the largest banking ISVs in the world, serving more than 40 of the top 50 banks while consistently devoting 20% of annual revenue to R&D. Temenos regularly benchmarks key offerings, as teams seek to exceed the capacity their largest customers are likely to need. This is known as the Temenos high-water benchmark and was last run in 2019 on AWS. Explore the complex requirements for this benchmark, and learn how YugabyteDB powered Temenos’ software to reach higher performance.