Capital Markets
Capital Markets firms are adopting AWS in order to discover new opportunities, re-think and re-design operating models, and implement cost-saving measures that increase efficiency. The results include accelerated go-to-market, strengthened security, enriched customer experiences, and better data-driven decision-making.
Case studies
DTCC
DTCC is all in on AWS, running more than 20 workloads in a regulated environment that demands resilience, secure storage, and industry-wide collaboration
Vanguard
Vanguard chooses AWS to help modernize its traditional, heavily virtualized tech stack, big data platforms, monolithic applications, and a PaaS running microservices
Wellington Management
Wellington Management executes a multi-year strategy to exit all of its physical data centers by migrating commercial and custom applications
Machine learning for Financial Services
Transform financial services with data-driven insights
Use cases
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Grid Computing
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Data Lakes and Analytics
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Digital Transformation
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Machine Learning
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Grid Computing
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Grid Computing
Capital Markets firms turn to AWS to extend their on-premises grids to the cloud or build cloud-native grids. They can right-size compute for risk and stress testing (FRTB and CCAR), trading strategy development, and portfolio management. The result? More accurate risk insights, stronger alphas, faster responses to regulatory changes and market events, and accelerated time to market for new products and services.
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AQR Capital
AQR Capital processes more than 75 years of compute workload to identify investment signals without worrying about the resources needed, cost, security, or timing
Citadel
Citadel builds a new analytics system to better handle ever-increasing computational needs and bursty workloads, saving up to 90% in costs with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered reduces the cost of its risk analysis grid computing solution by more than 60% by using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, AWS Lambda, and Amazon RDS
TIBCO
TIBCO creates a 1.3 million vCPU grid on AWS using EC2 Spot Instances and TIBCO GridServer for FRTB compliance
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Data Lakes and Analytics
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Data Lakes and Analytics
The scale and agility of AWS data lakes make it easy to aggregate data from multiple sources, building a foundation to leverage big data analytics. By breaking down on-premises data silos, Capital Markets firms can deepen business analytics, improve transaction surveillance, and ease regulatory reporting.
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Nasdaq
Nasdaq migrates its data warehouse to a more modern data lake architecture
Vanguard
Vanguard replicates data to the cloud and creates an engineering team to tackle microservices and big data workloads
AWS Partner Network
AWS Partner Network solutions help financial institutions collect, store, process, analyze, and share data
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Digital Transformation
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Digital Transformation
AWS is where financial data providers and consumers meet to build new market data applications. Capital Markets firms need simplified access to and management of traditional market data as well as alternative data without complex networking and infrastructure. Cloud provides easier, faster delivery to their AWS environments and beyond such as data sets not yet available natively on AWS.
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FINRA
FINRA selects AWS as its cloud provider for the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), which will allow regulators to improve securities market surveillance across U.S. markets and trading venues
T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price shifts away from monolithic architectures, developing a sophisticated segmentation model for retirement customers typically only differentiated by age
AWS Partner Network
AWS Partner Network solutions help financial institutions accelerate their business transformation
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Machine Learning
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Machine Learning
AWS offers the broadest, deepest set of machine learning (ML) services, which enables Capital Markets firms to drive digital transformation. Improved portfolio management, algorithmic models, and analyses of alternative data power the trade life cycle, while easier onboarding and personalized recommendations enhance customer experiences. Behind the scenes, ML increases process automation across risk, compliance, and pricing.
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Coinbase
Coinbase develops a machine learning-driven system that recognizes mismatches and anomalies in sources of user identification to take action against potential fraud
Moody’s Investor Services
Moody’s Investor Services builds a viable end-to-end machine learning platform in 4 weeks to predict a rating using only publicly available data
Siemens
Siemens leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning on its journey to reshape today's investment due diligence process
Vanguard
Vanguard uses Amazon SageMaker and its implementation of key controls in a highly regulated environment to build a secure machine learning environment
Benefits
Modernize disparate legacy systems for improved agility and scale
A global view of investing is critical to Capital Markets firms in a competitive and changing landscape, and AWS helps them enter new markets faster, achieve greater operational flexibility, and significantly lower costs.
Meet rapidly changing customer behaviors and expectations
As price points for trading and investments quickly approach zero, Capital Markets firms are leveraging AWS to differentiate service by personalizing recommendations in real time.
Drive business growth by harnessing data and innovation
AWS delivers the capacity and scale Capital Markets firms need to mine decades of historical data and ever-growing alternative datasets for new signals as they intensify the search for alpha during a time when passive investing is on the rise and growing AUM is essential.
Build with confidence on the most secure, compliant, resilient cloud
Capital Markets firms can rapidly provision infrastructure on AWS to increase responsiveness to changing market conditions, including unexpected volatility, unique regulatory requirements, and evolving threats.
Compliance and Security
AWS understands the unique security, regulatory, and compliance obligations financial services institutions face on a global scale. From infrastructure to automation, financial services institutions have all the tools and resources they need to create a compliant and secure environment on AWS.
Innovation
Meaningful innovation thrives on AWS. See how companies leverage AWS to build new experiences, get more value from data, and modernize IT and processes.