Category: Financial Services

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we continue to highlight five key considerations of a particular service that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval. Each of the five areas will include specific guidance, suggested reference architectures and technical code that can help […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations of Amazon Redshift: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, automating audits with APIs, and operational access and security respectively. Each of the five areas will include specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code […]

There are many trading-related workloads running on AWS today, including FINRA’s Consolidated Audit Trail, Trading Technologies’ order management system and trade surveillance, and Atreyu Group’s pricing risk calculator, that can span thousands of portfolios in seconds. Our trading customers told us they wanted a way to extend AWS regions to be as close as possible […]

Introduction Environmental, social and governance (ESG) data has become an indispensable data set for financial institutions – used to assess a company’s risk and performance. ESG is broadly defined as a set of non-financial criteria or metrics that reflect how a company performs as a steward of nature (measuring carbon emissions, water usage, waste management […]

Sun Life recently announced that it had selected AWS as “its long-term strategic cloud technology provider to become a cloud-first organization, drive ongoing innovation, and develop new digital client experiences.”  Sun Life will leverage AWS not only for cloud infrastructure, but for analytics, machine learning, storage, security, and databases as well. Sun Life believes this […]

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 […]