Category: Financial Services

Large capital market infrastructure providers (specifically exchanges) around the world use the cloud to accelerate their innovation and modernization journey. Trading workloads present unique challenges, including low latency responses, low jitter network performance, and ensuring fairness. With different services and features, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enable exchanges to develop use cases built with cloud-native services […]

With recent performance and operational improvements in the cloud, capital markets venues are now actively engaged in the race to the cloud. In many cases, this requires capital markets infrastructure to be re-engineered for resilience, performance and consistency. Aeron’s high performance message transport and cluster technology is uniquely suited to help move front-office trading and […]

The banking industry faces a constant battle against financial fraud. With the rise of online transactions, mobile banking, and digital payment methods, the risk of fraudulent activities has grown exponentially. To combat this ever-evolving threat, banks are turning to modern technologies on the cloud, specifically using machine learning to augment the rule engine and to […]

The COVID pandemic accelerated the customer demand seeking hyper-connected digital experiences, which could cut even across other industries. We highlighted this trend in our “Banking on the Cloud” ebook. Banks are accelerating the development of their strategies and solutions to deliver banking as a service (BaaS) and ecosystem banking capabilities to their customers and partners. […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2023 is gearing up to deliver a week of inspiring keynotes, educational workshops and bootcamps, and plenty of peer-to-peer networking opportunities. This year’s conference will convene in Las Vegas, Nevada, from November 27th-December 1st. We will also have an engaging virtual program for those who cannot join us in person. […]

In June, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a consultation, Enhancing Third-Party Risk Management and Oversight: A toolkit for financial institutions and financial authorities, that aims to reduce fragmentation of regulatory and supervisory approaches to financial institutions’ (FIs) third-party risk management (TPRM) and deliver and support a more harmonized approach across all jurisdictions. The consultation […]

Bank CFOs are transforming their finance functions from both an operations and technology perspective, innovating to simplify their organisational model, increase efficiency and deepen the insight they provide to stakeholders. Cloud technology is enabling these changes by providing a new set of tools to solve some of the enduring business challenges that they face. In […]

If you have been following the regulatory agenda related to operational resilience, outsourcing and cloud in financial services, you know the EU is now entering the second phase of its policy-making process. With the Regulation on Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) published in the official journal back in December 2022, the focus has shifted to […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers who process and analyze streaming data on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink: achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]

Welcome to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Service Spotlight monthly blog series. Each month, we look at five key considerations that FSI customers should focus on to help streamline cloud service approval for one particular service. Each of the five key considerations includes specific guidance, suggested reference architectures, and technical code that can be used […]