Category: Financial Services

Latency is one of the sources of competitive edge and a continuous focus for exchanges and Market Makers in capital markets. Improving latency positively impacts the execution of trading strategies, enhancing liquidity and increasing profitability for market venues and participants. A significant number of crypto exchanges have been built on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—continuing to […]

Companies across industries are increasingly seeking ways to complement their first-party data to build a holistic view of their customers or business. This often means developing a view across channels and engagements, as well as complementing their first-party data with their business partners’ data. This need for data collaboration spans company size, geography, and industry. […]

The needs for dedicated card machines (or readers) tied to point-of-sale (POS) systems have historically restricted certain micro-merchants from adoption of electronic payments. New advancements in payments technology and standards have led to the development of software point-of-sale (SoftPOS). SoftPOS is a software-based solution that transforms near field communication (NFC)-enabled smartphones into a contactless payment […]

Connecting all the right software as a service (SaaS) providers using well-established private, secure and resilient integration patterns can seem overwhelming. The SaaS model of deployment can help organizations reduce undifferentiated heavy lifting to manage the vendor’s application, software tools and hardware infrastructure—resulting in an improvement in operational efficiency and business agility. We, at Amazon […]

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 […]