Category: Financial Services

A summary of the panel discussion at the AWS Financial Services Symposium Written with the help of Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock The AWS Financial Services Symposium took place on June 6 in New York City, where several hundred AWS customers and partners in the financial services industry convened to explore how technology […]

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a pan-European legislative framework on operational resilience and cyber resilience. DORA outlines improvements in information and communications technology (ICT) and security risk-management requirements, a harmonization regime for ICT incident reporting, development of a digital operational resilience testing framework, and an oversight framework for critical ICT third-party providers. DORA does not set any […]

This blog discusses how The New York Stock Exchange Group expanded its cloud-based market data product offerings by launching NYSE Cloud Streaming. NYSE Cloud Streaming is a real-time market data streaming solution that lands high-quality market data into AWS with sub-hundred milliseconds latency in a Kafka-compatible stream. This solution makes it easier for customers to […]

In this blog we discuss why Yaala Labs built their matching engine solution, P8, on AWS and explore the architectural decisions they made to achieve their performance and business objectives. We also share some of the benefits that Yaala Labs and their customers gained by running on AWS. Who is Yaala Labs Yaala Labs was […]

We are delighted to announce the release of a new version of the AWS Well-Architected Financial Services Industry Lens and whitepaper (FSI Lens). The Well-Architected guidance consists of a lens whitepaper and an AWS-created lens that’s available in the Lens Catalog of the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach for […]

In October 2023, we briefed customers on our submission to the public consultation on the first batch of regulatory technical standards (RTSs) made under DORA. As part of our continuing engagement with regulatory authorities on the finalization of DORA, including the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and National Competent Authorities (NCAs), we submitted our response to […]

As the proposed regime for critical third parties (CTPs) to the UK financial services sector continues to progress, financial institutions are interested in assessing and understanding the impact that working with a designated CTP will have on their reporting requirements and regulatory expectations around operational resilience. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 allows HM […]

A wide range of critical systems architected to run on AWS Cloud use active-active patterns for high availability (HA) across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZs) and active-passive patterns for disaster recovery (DR) across multiple AWS Regions. Financial services customers choose to utilize the active-active approach across multiple Regions to achieve near-zero Recovery Time Objective (RTO). As network […]

There is a growing interest around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and insights in the marketplace. This interest has created new opportunities for information and products that provide clarity about the ESG footprint of a variety of entities, from companies to investments, among others. This blog will enable organizations to better understand how Sustainable […]

Traditional monolithic policy processing systems are often burdened with complexity and inefficiency, leading to slow response times, errors, and customer dissatisfaction. However, the emergence of InsurTech has paved the way for innovative solutions that can revolutionize insurance policy processing. In this blog, you’ll learn how to build a modern, scalable insurance policy administration system on […]