How Global Payments accelerates innovation on AWS

Global Payments acquisition of industry leading, card-issuing technology provider, TSYS, created a catalyst for innovation and transformation. As a result, TSYS executed a landmark partnership with AWS to migrate its payment workloads to the cloud. In this session, learn how TSYS is modernizing their issuer processing platform and innovating by building a multi-region active-active architecture, leading to improved throughput, availability, and response times. We’ll walk through how TSYS leveraged AWS services like DynamoDB, EKS, and others to build a highly resilient, scalable and secure architecture to support the massive scale of one of the world’s largest financial services providers.

Speakers: 

Scott Carter, CTO, Global Payments

Raghu Ram Bongula, SVP Engineering, Global Payments

How Nomura built a next-generation time series Metrics-as-a-Service

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. Nomura needed a solution to monitor performance of their on-premise infrastructure for capacity planning, spotting bottlenecks, and debug performance issues by aggregating time-series metrics from thousands of servers and desktops globally. In this session, Nomura will share how they decided to adopt AWS services after trying to build a solution on-premises. With AWS, Nomura was able to build a dashboard and support ad-hoc queries, leading to reduced operational overhead, increased scalability to handle spikes and improved backlog processing.

Speakers:

Andy Coates, Executive Director – Global Head of Infrastructure Development, Nomura

Arnav Khare, Principal Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services, AWS

How MunichRe built an insurance-focused IoT solution on AWS

Come learn how MunichRe built an IoT sensor solution on AWS to help its customers prevent property damage and avoid loss for the property-casualty insurance industry, which results in fewer claims, better customer experience, and innovative new insurance products. In this session, the team will describe how it leveraged several AWS solutions, including secure edge device connectivity, ingestion, storage, and IoT data analytics to build the capability to analyze IoT for insurance companies.

Speaker:

Lewis Wight, CTO, Meshify HSB (Munich Re Group)

How Vanguard sped up its internal approval process for using AWS services

Vanguard, one of the world’s leading investment management companies, wanted to accelerate its cloud journey by streamlining its internal approval processes to use AWS services. The approval process used to take several months involving a group of architects. This prompted Vanguard to create a new mechanism called the BOAT (Bring on Advanced Technology), which enables AWS services to be used for use case validation within seven days. Come learn how Vanguard streamlined the process and collaborate with its AWS team to quickly get services approved for use after launch.

Speakers:

Rebecca Sundheim, Head of Developer Experience, Vanguard

Michael Bakay, IT Project Manager, Vanguard

Santander's journey to achieving security-at-scale on AWS

In this session, you will learn how Santander leveraged a corporate landing zone to accelerate AWS adoption in their local operating entities while maintaining the highest security standards. We will explore Santander’s strategy to improve their security posture with a well-architected, multi-account cloud environment and lessons learned for governance at scale in a highly regulated and federated organization.

Speakers: 

Luis Enriquez Mata, Group VP – CTO for Cloud, Infrastructure & Automation, Santander

Jorge Alvarez Fernandez , Global Head of Public Cloud Architecture, Santander

Cloud Fast Track: Goldman Sachs's Continuous Deployment Platform

Learn about Cloud Fast Track, the fully managed continuous deployment platform Goldman Sachs is building on AWS to accelerate secure cloud deployments at scale. The custom platform allows their developers to access pre-approved infrastructure options that are continuously evaluated to meet the firm’s compliance and regulatory requirements using Policy-as-Code. In this session, we will discuss the platform design, implementation, and challenges the firm faced during the platform roll out. We will also share customer success stories featuring the firm’s internal teams and explore potential opportunities to collaborate with peers trying to solve similar problems in the Financial Services industry.

Speakers:

Shubham Shukla, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Ryan McDonough, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

How USAA is paving the road for cloud-based innovation & system modernization with secure and compliant guardrails

USAA is one of the leading providers of insurance, banking, investment, and retirement solutions to members of the US military, veterans, and their families. In this session, learn how building a standardized, repeatable, compliant, and secure environment on AWS enables USAA to leverage the cloud for some of its core workloads.

Speaker:

Gerum Haile, Vice President – Chief Architect and Technical Fellow, USAA

How Hyland helped FINRA to securely manage their most critical applications

In this session, Hyland will share how running on AWS has enabled it to collaborate with FINRA to detect, deter, and discipline misconduct and protect America’s financial system. Working under the supervision of the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA’s objectives are to write and enforce rules governing the ethical activities of all registered broker-dealer firms and registered brokers in the U.S., verify compliance of those rules, and ensure transparency in all market activities. By working with Hyland, FINRA is able to process more than 600 billion transactions daily through sophisticated, secure, market leading technology and technology partnerships.

Speaker:

Steve Comer, AVP – Financial Services and Insurance, Hyland

How the Options Clearing Corporation modernized its clearing technology

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, clears millions of transactions each day across options, futures, and stock loan products with a system designed to safeguard the integrity of each contract. In this session, you will learn how the OCC worked with AWS Premier Partner, Ness Digital Engineering, to successfully drive their Modern Renaissance Initiative to replace the company’s core clearing, data, and risk platforms with a highly modular system that allows for agility and scale through market volatility, as well as the ability to deliver near-real time risk management.

Speakers:

Peter Meulbroek, Global Head of Cloud and Data, Ness

Dave Hoag, Chief Information Officer, OCC

Amy McCormick, Managing Director, Market Risk and Default Management, OCC