AWS for Industries

Category: Financial Services

Part 1: BBVA: Building a multi-region, multi-country global Data and ML Platform at scale

In an era where data drives financial innovation, BBVA, a global financial institution serving over 76 million customers across 25+ countries, partnered with AWS to revolutionize its data analytics capabilities. BBVA embarked on an ambitious three-year journey to transform its entire data analytics infrastructure. The Analytics, Data, AI (ADA) Global Data platform represents one of […]

Part 5 BBVA's unified console Key to successful global platform deployment

Part 5: BBVA’s unified console: Key to successful global platform deployment

This is the fifth post of a six-part series detailing how BBVA migrated their Analytics, Data, AI (ADA) platform to AWS. In this post, we share how BBVA leveraged AWS services to build all the necessary operations capabilities to support a global data platform. We will also show how BBVA manages to combine building the […]

Part 3 - How BBVA built a global analytics and machine learning platform on AWS

Part 3: How BBVA built a global analytics and machine learning platform on AWS

This is the third post of a six-part series detailing how BBVA migrated its Analytics, Data, AI (ADA) platform to AWS. We’re sharing how BBVA partnered with AWS to onboard over 6,500 advanced users (including data scientists and data engineers) to a new machine learning platform based on Amazon SageMaker AI. Read the entire series: Part […]

Part 4: Building a Multi-Layer Security Strategy for BBVA’s Global Data Platform on AWS

Part 4: Building a Multi-Layer Security Strategy for BBVA’s Global Data Platform on AWS

This is the fourth post of a six-part series detailing how BBVA migrated its Analytics, Data, AI (ADA) platform to AWS. In this post, we explore how BBVA developed and implemented a comprehensive multi-layer security strategy to protect petabyte-scale financial data while enabling secure access for over 6,500 advanced users across their global operations. We’ll […]

Part 2: How BBVA processes a global data lake using AWS Glue and Amazon EMR

Part 2: How BBVA processes a global data lake using AWS Glue and Amazon EMR

This is the second post of a six-part series detailing how BBVA | The digital bank of the 21st century a global financial services group present in over 25 countries throughout the world, with over 125,000 employees, serving over 76 million customers. On 2023, BBVA after selecting AWS as the cloud vendor for Data has […]

Part 6 Effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA the migration methodology

Part 6: Effective sunset of the legacy data platform in BBVA: the migration methodology

This is the sixth and final post of a six-part series detailing how BBVA migrated its Analytics, Data, AI (ADA) platform to AWS. We’re sharing how BBVA successfully orchestrated the sunset of their legacy data platform while ensuring a smooth transition of approximately 500TB of data and over 250 analytical environments to AWS. Read the […]

Cloud Adoption Update for Financial Market Infrastructure Providers 1H25

Cloud Adoption Update for Financial Market Infrastructure Providers 1H25

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 […]

Resolve imperfect data with advanced rule-based fuzzy matching in AWS Entity Resolution

Resolve imperfect data with advanced rule-based fuzzy matching in AWS Entity Resolution

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 […]

Optimizing Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Performance

Optimizing Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Performance: Latency Testing for Bond Market Data

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. […]

Solution for Responding to DCA Complaints for Motor Finance Using AWS Services

Solution for Responding to DCA Complaints for Motor Finance Using AWS Services

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 […]