Category: Financial Services

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

In today’s world, consumers have more power than ever before, and even more choices and experiences. However, this poses a unique challenge for insurers. Typically, insurance companies have limited touchpoints with the customer, given the insurance value chain of quote, buy, and claim. This leaves the provided customer experience as the key competitive differentiator. Simplifying the […]

On June 8th, Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) published a “Policy statement on Critical Third Parties (CTPs) to the finance sector”. In it, HMT sets out plans to designate certain third-party providers, including cloud service providers, as ‘critical’ to the UK financial system. The policy statement details HMT’s proposal for increasing financial stability and market confidence […]

Maria E. Tsani Head of Financial Services Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs EMEA at Amazon Web Services (AWS) On 10 May the European Council, Commission and Parliament announced a provisional political agreement on the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This agreement will set the foundation for a harmonized pan-EU framework on operational resilience, which AWS […]

At the 2021 re:Invent, it was announced that NASDAQ was partnering with AWS to transform Capital Markets and migrate its North American markets to the cloud. This means that it’s time to rethink the “art of the possible” for cloud trading. With the recent launch of AWS Local Zones in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, […]

Payment data security architecture is undergoing a tremendous evolution. Increasing volumes of payments are moving to mobile devices, FinTechs and neobanks are growing in prominence, and many FSIs are taking a cloud-first approach to serving their customers. This post details how AWS and Futurex have worked together to offer a streamlined method for organizations to […]

Over the past year the industry has accelerated in an ecosystem approach to banking, and more broadly with financial services. Accenture estimates $416b in banking revenues is at stake as we shift to an open data economy. Although banks embarked on this journey with Open Banking as a catalyst, many have embraced the augmentation of […]

Robert Butcher, Solution Architect, Global Financial Services, AWS Front Office risk data is the lifeblood of Investment Banks. It informs every trading decision that they take, both commercial and prudential, and it’s critical for planning and regulatory reporting purposes. In this post, we present a reference architecture for a Front Office Risk Store (risk store) […]

Intro to service Over the last 20 years, the users for data analytics have grown as a result of a surge in the variety and volume of data that companies can collect. To prepare data for analytics or machine learning projects, data scientists and analysts have to either use spreadsheets to explore and experiment with […]

Customer habits have been changing over the last decade, with customers expecting frictionless and instant access to their banking needs. Banking customers have prioritized digital self-service via mobile and web over branch or phone banking, with the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerating this trend. Although digital channels are rising in importance, the ability to converge channels […]