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Tag: data strategy

How Mistral Data is transforming public transport

I recently interviewed Duncan Waugh, managing director at Mistral Data, a UK-based company that is working to improve public transport using data and services built upon Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this blog, you’ll learn how they are helping a traditional industry innovate, improving operations and the customer experience. Duncan, can you tell me more […]

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Retailers: Turn Retail Data into Competitive Advantage

If you consider the last few decades, the retail industry has gone through a massive transformation. From the corner drug store of yesteryear, to the massive malls of the 80s and 90s, and from online marketplaces to self-service kiosks and social media shopping, the retail landscape has evolved in ways that no one would’ve imagined. […]

How cloud increases flexibility of trading risk infrastructure for FRTB compliance

The Basel Regulatory Framework strives for a strict boundary between financial institutions’ trading books and banking books to prevent regulatory arbitrage. The Trade Book element of these regulations (the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book or FRTB) seeks, in exchange for more rigorous risk modeling, to strengthen trade risk management allowing institutions to optimize the […]