Tag: Financial Services

According to one McKinsey Report, cash forecasting is cited among the most inefficient processes by small and large organizations alike. In turn, CFOs are seeking partners to help them navigate from reporting to predicting. Although corporate treasurers are challenged to achieve these efficiencies due to paper-based process (e.g., invoicing, wet signatures) and a lack of […]

You know you should be investing for the future, but you don’t have much money in reserve, and you’re not even sure where to start. The stock market is complicated, and you don’t fully understand how to get started with investing. And what exactly is cryptocurrency, anyway? That’s where Wealthsimple comes in. The Canadian financial […]

The technology integration process that occurs as a result of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be complex and broad, ranging from re-platform to re-architecture. Planning for a technology integration can take months. While CFOs make sure of compliance with local and global requirements, such as exposure reporting, OFAC screening, and customer communication, CIOs are involved […]

Ransomware, a malicious software that is designed to disrupt, damage, and/or gain unauthorized access to a computer system and its data, has been on the rise. As per Sophos, 34% of financial services organizations that were surveyed indicated that they had been hit by ransomware in 2020. Moreover, 51% of those attacks succeeded in encrypting […]

Banks must continually innovate to gain a competitive edge in protecting customer transactions and data. For decades now, modern banking has relied on the TLS (formerly known as SSL) protocol to encrypt and provide confidentiality for online transactions. In turn, the security of TLS relies on the assumption that it’s extremely difficult for even the […]

In this edition of the Financial Services Industry (FSI) Services Spotlight monthly blog series, we highlight five key considerations for customers running workloads on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP) achieving compliance, data protection, isolation of compute environments, audits with APIs, and access control/security. Across each area, we will examine specific guidance, suggested […]

In today’s world, consumers have more power than ever before, and even more choices and experiences. However, this poses a unique challenge for insurers. Typically, insurance companies have limited touchpoints with the customer, given the insurance value chain of quote, buy, and claim. This leaves the provided customer experience as the key competitive differentiator. Simplifying the […]

Maria E. Tsani Head of Financial Services Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs EMEA at Amazon Web Services (AWS) On 10 May the European Council, Commission and Parliament announced a provisional political agreement on the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This agreement will set the foundation for a harmonized pan-EU framework on operational resilience, which AWS […]

Payment data security architecture is undergoing a tremendous evolution. Increasing volumes of payments are moving to mobile devices, FinTechs and neobanks are growing in prominence, and many FSIs are taking a cloud-first approach to serving their customers. This post details how AWS and Futurex have worked together to offer a streamlined method for organizations to […]

Robert Butcher, Solution Architect, Global Financial Services, AWS Front Office risk data is the lifeblood of Investment Banks. It informs every trading decision that they take, both commercial and prudential, and it’s critical for planning and regulatory reporting purposes. In this post, we present a reference architecture for a Front Office Risk Store (risk store) […]