Category: Financial Services

In a recent Bloomberg Businessweek Podcast recorded just after International Women’s Day 2022, senior executives from Nasdaq and AWS discussed the landmark moment in Nasdaq’s cloud journey to build the next generation of cloud-enabled infrastructure for the world’s capital markets, running on AWS. Hear from Lauren Dillard, Executive VP, Investment Intelligence at Nasdaq, and Ruba Borno, VP, Worldwide Channels and Alliances at AWS, as the two women explore the decade-long collaboration between Nasdaq and AWS.

In global trade, a letter of credit (LC) is a commonly used financial instrument that ensures the payment of goods and services while reducing risks during transactions. The traditional LC process includes many challenges such as overdue payments, data breach risks, and fraudulent activities. Learn how Capgemini’s letter of credit solution simplifies and secures the LC issuance process through digitization and building “trust networks.”

Most banks are still running legacy core systems developed over 30 years ago for mainframe computing. These software applications pre-dated the internet and were monolithic by design. Finxact is an AWS Partner that was begun five years ago by a team of engineers with deep experience in the design of core banking systems. Its mission was to couple this domain expertise with the most modern cloud-based technologies and programming languages to produce a core platform for the modern era of banking.

There is a growing trend of investment managers incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues into their analysis. The increasing recognition of ESG factors within the investment process has created pressure on investment managers to adopts a robust ESG data strategy and framework. Learn how Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has collaborated with AWS to offer the TCS ESG Integration Solution on AWS, which includes a cloud-native ESG data ingestion platform and custom ESG scoring model.

Forward-looking finance teams will build resilience and responsiveness to future disruption. To deliver this strategic mandate, finance offices must be data-driven and share insights that help the organization connect, predict, and adapt within a changing business environment. Learn how Genpact’s data lake analytics reference architecture helps finance teams incorporate functional expertise into AWS solutions with the goal of delivering business impact beyond increased productivity.

As organizations acquire more and more data, the need to effectively store and query the data has become very important. Canvas Glide from LTI is a tool for administering Amazon Redshift’s day-to-day routine tasks. It also helps organizations manage all financial aspects related to cost allocation, chargeback, monitoring, and planning of Amazon Redshift clusters. Learn how Canvas Glide assists administrators to successfully manage their clusters and guides them on common maintenance tasks.

Recognizing a user’s signature is an essential step in banking and legal transactions, and typically involves relying on human verification. Learn how Capgemini uses machine learning from AWS to build ML-models to verify signatures from different user channels including web and mobile apps. This ensures organizations can meet the required standards, recognize user identity, and assess if further verifications are needed.

AWS Partners with the Financial Services Competency have demonstrated industry expertise, readily implemented solutions that align with AWS architectural best practices, and have expert staff with AWS Certifications. Learn about Kasasa’s multi-year migration from legacy architecture to AWS, the benefits of Kasasa’s software-as-a-service rewards platform, and how Kasasa brought 900+ community financial institutions along for this epic journey.

Most financial institutions are at different stages of their cloud journey. Many are challenged with delivering new and enhanced services, providing services faster, and driving operational efficiencies while facing increasingly competitive markets. Learn how Avaloq has laid a good foundation to help businesses ease the journey of testing and integrating new solutions by managing the complexities across various phases utilizing Avaloq’s sandbox solution powered by AWS.

Open Finance initiatives have been gaining momentum across the world. These initiatives require that banks provide access to customer data through a common, open API for third-party applications, which are referred to as fintech apps. Learn how to build and deploy a basic fintech app on AWS in under an hour by using the Plaid Link API. This app allows users to sign up, log in, select their bank from a list, connect to that bank, and display the latest transactions.