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João Aragão Pereira

Author: João Aragão Pereira

João Paulo Aragão Pereira is an AWS solutions architect, focused on the financial services sector (LATAM) and its main topics: fraud prevention and detection, Open Banking, modernization of legacy systems, liveness detection, Instant Payment Systems. I have been worked with banking and insurance architectures for over 15 years.

Liveness Detection to Improve Fraud Prevention in Financial Institutions with Amazon Rekognition

Note: We recommend customers to explore Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness, a new feature to deter fraud in facial verification, that is now generally available. Face Liveness detects spoofs presented to the camera (e.g. printed photos, digital photos or videos, or 3D masks) and spoofs that bypass the camera (e.g. pre-recorded real or deepfake videos). Face […]

Supporting digital signature and secure message transmission with AWS KMS and AWS Secrets Manager for Brazilian Instant Payment System

As discussed in the previous blog, the new Brazilian Instant Payment System (PIX) aims to speed up payments messaging and the availability of final funds to the beneficiary. The PIX results in reduction of costs, increasing security and improving the customer experience. AWS provides the necessary certifications and compliance standards for financial institutions to comply […]

Enabling mainframe automated code build and deployment for financial institutions using AWS and Micro Focus solutions

Mainframes are used by financial institutions for critical applications, batch data processing, online transaction processing, and mixed concurrent workloads. They have non-functional requirements such as performance, security, and resource availability to process all workloads, even in development environments. However, potential resource and parallelism reduction may occur during the development of new programs and subsequent testing. […]