Category: Financial Services

How do you maintain a lean and impactful IT operation when both your customer base and your engineering team are growing rapidly? This was the situation facing FinTech FreeAgent in 2018. In the following blog post we’ll explore how FreeAgent remained agile, while scaling their business, by adopting AWS fully-managed services. The Company U.K.-based FreeAgent […]

EDM Council, a global trade association for data management and analytics, recently published the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework for managing data in the cloud. AWS, along with other cloud service providers and technology and consulting firms, as well as several leading financial services institutions, participated in an 18-month long working session to develop […]

In this edition of Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations as they pertain to Amazon Kendra, including achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and operational access and security. For each of these five areas, we will provide specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, […]

Zerodha, India’s largest retail stockbroker by active client base, contributes upwards of 18% of daily retail volumes across Indian stock exchanges [1]. One of Zerodha’s key business objectives in 2021 was to provide accurate profit and loss (PnL) calculations to its customers on a daily basis. However, this involved overcoming several challenges around data processing. […]

Background The global banking landscape has been experiencing significant transformation over recent years, as customers increasingly expect an always-on, fully digital and personalized experience, triggering changing expectations around their banking services. While evolving consumer expectations and technology advancements have been primary drivers in the growth of digital banking, regulatory support through the introduction of open […]

Global banking in the digital age Global banking is being disrupted from many angles. The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a profound change in consumer habits, fuelling the growth of digital banking. For many banks, the legacy technology that once drove business success now inhibits progress due to a lack of flexibility and scalability. Banks are […]

Digital banking growth has accelerated The global banking landscape has experienced significant change over recent years. Customers increasingly expect an always-on, fully digital and personalized experience in their daily life, triggering changing expectations around their banking services. A confluence of industry drivers—heightened customer expectations, new regulations (such PSD2 in EU/UK, and new digital only banking licenses […]

The regulatory landscape Compliant record retention is a regulatory expectation for certain financial services institutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have recordkeeping rules that establish the types of records that regulated broker-dealers (BDs) must maintain. SEC and FINRA rules outline specific […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]

How does a company build a solution to a complex business challenge when the required technology and skills are new to the organization? Global fintech company Broadridge Financial Solutions (Broadridge) faced this question as it considered how to improve the operational efficiency of its Proxy Policies and Insights (PPI) tool. Broadridge has used Amazon Web […]