Category: Financial Services

Introduction Financial Market Infrastructure Providers (FMIs) continue to accelerate the migration of critical workloads across the trade lifecycle to AWS. During the first half of 2025, Exchanges, Central Counterparty Clearing Houses (CCPs), and Central Security Depositories (CSDs) continue to use cloud services. These services include AI and GenAI capabilities, as engines of innovation and differentiation […]

Companies across industries aim to deliver personalized customer experiences and optimized advertising campaigns by resolving customer identities. However, being able to reliably match records across fragmented, inconsistent, and often messy datasets can be hard and complicated. Organizations using traditional rule-based matching techniques to help match exact records often miss valuable connections due to slight variations […]

In the fast-paced world of financial markets, every millisecond counts. For the (soon to be selected) Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Providers (CTP) that will begin operations in early 2026, it’s crucial to maintain low latency and high throughput to deliver timely and accurate pricing information. Bondtape Bondtape is a partnership between FINBOURNE Technology and Propellant.digital. […]

The UK motor finance industry faces Complex challenges following the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) review of Discretionary Commission Arrangements (DCA). Financial institutions must now analyze historical lending data, calculate accurate redress amounts, and manage customer communications effectively, all while working with fragmented data sets and tight regulatory deadlines. In this post, we’ll explore how AWS […]

Scott Mullins, Managing Director, AWS for Financial Services Over 750 financial services leaders convened for the AWS Financial Services Symposium in New York City last month to share, build relationships, and explore how their peers are leveraging cloud technology to tackle their most pressing business challenges. Under the theme “Pushing the Envelope,” the Symposium featured […]

Overview The payments industry has seen significant growth and transformation in recent years, driven by the rapid adoption of digital and mobile payment technologies. According to McKinsey, “Payments revenues grew at 11 percent in 2022—a double-digit rate for the second consecutive year—reaching more than $2.2 trillion, an all-time high”. This growth brings challenges in ensuring payment […]

Introduction Factor modeling in hedge funds is a quantitative approach that identifies and analyzes key drivers of asset returns. It lets fund managers to optimize portfolios, manage risk, and generate alpha by leveraging vast amounts of market data. This technique facilitates the development of sophisticated trading strategies, enhancing investment performance and providing a competitive edge […]

This AWS FSI Blog post outlines how Zurich Insurance in the UK, or ‘Zurich’ in the remainder of this post, is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) with Amazon SageMaker AI to anticipate flood claims, thereby proactively protecting customers against potentially catastrophic events. Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading insurer providing property, casualty, […]

Backtesting plays a critical role in algorithmic trading. Firms leverage XGBoost for backtesting to build predictive models that forecast market movements based on historical data. Training XGBoost models is computationally expensive though, and can quickly become a bottleneck, especially when working with large historical datasets. This blog post shows how quantitative trading firms distribute XGBoost […]

Introduction Mastercard’s AI-powered real-time fraud prevention platform, Brighterion, has been delivering advanced fraud detection and risk management solutions to enterprise customers for over 20 years. Trusted by more than 2,000 clients worldwide, including 74 of the top 100 U.S. banks, Mastercard’s Brighterion AI platform scores over 150 billion transactions annually, helping organizations prevent fraud while […]