Category: Financial Services

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC promotes stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures, and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), […]

Introduction Embarking on digital transformation initiatives often requires decommissioning legacy systems, exacerbating the complexity of preserving and accessing crucial data. Failing to address this issue effectively leads to data loss, operational inefficiencies, and potential regulatory violations, which can result in substantial fines and reputational damage. Financial institutions must retain vast amounts of historical data, like […]

Financial institutions of various sizes, including major players like NASDAQ, are finding that agentic AI offers concrete advantages over traditional generative AI approaches. A recent Moody’s study highlights this rapid adoption, revealing that 70 percent of participants surveyed prioritize AI for risk and compliance, while significant percentages are using AI for accelerating analysis (66%), reducing […]

Overview Scaling of the Core Banking Systems (CBS) of the Indian Banks has been a point of concern due to the significant rise of the digital payments in India. This is primarily driven by Unified Payments Interface (UPI). UPI is a system that powers multiple bank accounts into a single mobile application (of any participating […]

Introduction Data mesh emerges as a transformative architectural paradigm that revolutionizes how organizations manage and share data across domains. By treating data as a product and decentralizing ownership to domain teams, data mesh enables scalable, secure, and efficient data sharing while preserving domain autonomy. This blog is intended for data architects and technical leaders who […]

The payments industry stands at a transformative inflection point. Traditional payment systems built on rigid rules, manual processes, and legacy infrastructure find it difficult to navigate the evolving landscape of modern commerce. Today’s payment ecosystem demands solutions that handle increasing complexity while delivering the seamless, contactless, and autonomous experiences customers expect. Financial institutions have long […]

This article was originally published in the Autumn 2025 edition of FinTech BoostUP Magazine. Agentic AI is an inflection point for Capital Markets firms AI-powered innovation and automation within capital markets has evolved rapidly. What began with assistants has progressed to agents, and now to fully autonomous, multi-agent systems. These systems mimic human logic and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]