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12 posts

22 Jul

3 min read

Data engineering teams often face a “Day 2” operational reality after building a data platform: the ongoing work of maintaining the orchestrator itself. For the Data Platform team at Checkout.com, managing a self-hosted Apache Airflow environment on another hyperscaler was consuming time the team wanted to spend elsewhere as server management, patching, and incident response were pulling focus from building…

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13 Jul

Lijan Kuniyil 7 min read

Insurance fraud remains a significant challenge for the insurance industry. Fraudulent claims can increase loss costs, reduce trust, and consume investigation capacity that could otherwise be focused on serving customers. Traditional fraud detection approaches typically rely on rules-based controls, manual investigation triggers, historical claim patterns, and structured-data-only analysis. These approaches are useful for known fraud […]

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7 Jul

Nishanth Charlakola 6 min read

In this post, we explain how S&P Global Market Intelligence implemented an innovative disaster recovery solution for their Capital IQ platform using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This solution enables immediate failover to read-only mode in a secondary region within 15 minutes, followed by full read-write recovery when needed. This approach achieves reduction in failover time while maintaining data consistency…

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30 Jun

6 min read

The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable requirements: the need for strict regulatory compliance, sub-millisecond transactional speeds, and security that verges on impenetrable. Historically, organizations have met these standards by relying on brittle, proprietary database systems, leaving them with massive technical debt, operational overhead, and vendor lock-in. At the same time, financial services companies are…

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Pahal Patangia 4 min read

Financial institutions have spent years building AI: fraud models, credit models, recommendation engines and risk systems. While this sprawl of task-specific models has been effective, it’s also constrained by siloed systems. Siloed systems prevent institutions from developing a unified understanding of consumers’ financial behavior. As enterprise datasets keep growing, so does the gap between what […]

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23 Apr

Neeraj Kaushik 9 min read

This post extends IBM's approach to real-time KYC validation using generative AI, as previously discussed in the post IBM Digital KYC on AWS uses Generative AI to transform Client Onboarding and KYC Operations. It transforms compliance operations through autonomous decision-making and intelligent automation using agentic AI, event-driven architecture, and AWS serverless services. The solution addresses the fundamental limitations of traditional…

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9 Mar

Dan Rowinski 9 min read

AI is everywhere and accelerating everything — becoming essential infrastructure to create the intelligence that will advance every industry. That’s why companies are increasingly focusing on the technology’s return on investment (ROI), as well as how to best apply AI to their own use cases. NVIDIA’s annual “State of AI” reports show how AI is […]

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22 Jan

Kevin Levitt 4 min read

AI has taken center stage in financial services, automating the research and execution behind algorithmic trading and helping banks more accurately detect fraud and money laundering — all while improving risk management practices and expediting document processing. The sixth annual “NVIDIA State of AI in Financial Services” report, based on a survey of more than […]

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