Category: Financial Services

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In the public sector, organizations are ripe with opportunities to digitize their services and migrate from outdated on-premises systems to protect their data and better utilize it to make informed decisions.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.

In the financial services industry, detecting fraud is a complex process. For any given transaction or activity, the system needs to decide whether it’s fraudulent or not and take action within seconds. With Redis Enterprise Cloud‘s sub-millisecond latency speeds, up to five 9’s of availability, linear scalability, and multiple data model support coupled with the global cloud infrastructure support of AWS, organizations can benefit from building a real-time fraud detection system to manage and control fraud.

AWS Partners represent a variety of geographies, backgrounds, and interests. With a network so widespread, AWS collaborates with businesses that excel in providing value-added services to customers from varied industries, including healthcare and life sciences, travel and hospitality, financial services, energy and utilities, media and entertainment, automotive, education, and more. Our industry-focused approach leverages specialized expertise and purpose-built solutions to help partners transform with AWS and solve the challenges facing various markets.

As BJSS demonstrates in this post, hosting a trading platform for a major market in the cloud has long been technically feasible, and the last four years have only solidified the argument for migration of trading systems to cloud infrastructure. The study BJSS performed should be used as confirmation of cloud capabilities by those weighing the cost and opportunity of a transition. Early adopters of cloud services have benefited from the advantages of improved resiliency, scalability, security, and flexibility.