The Financial Services industry is evolving: new forms of risk are emerging, data volumes continue to increase exponentially, and unlocking business intelligence from your data can mean the difference between missing an industry trend or quickly identifying new market opportunities. Financial Services for AWS and Vertical Relevance can help your organization with tools that gather, process, enrich, store, and analyze data.
We focus on “building the foundations” in which a financial services organization is able to effectively use AWS to run applications and accelerate innovation while still considering their operational, regulatory, and security requirements. We bring prescriptive guidance and solutions in each of our competencies:
Design and develop a DevOps platform to provide infrastructure and pipelines through automation.
Design and develop a SecOps platform to provide security and compliance policies through automation.
Design and develop a DataOps platform to provide data ingestion, governance, and analytics through automation.
Design and develop monitoring, observability, and resiliency testing through automation.
Re-designing, Re-factoring, and Re-platforming applications to run AWS native.
Vertical Relevance differentiates itself within our Cloud Transformation practice by focusing exclusively on the Financial Services industry and AWS. The utilization of cloud services within the financial services industry today is in full force. Now, cloud is making it possible for financial services institutions to scale and innovate in ways they never thought possible.
Whether our clients are just starting out with their journey or looking to mature their cloud capabilities, we provide insights based on the best practices we’ve developed through a combination of 25+ years of Financial Services business experience and 10+ years of AWS experience.
Through their collaboration on AWS, Vertical Relevance and AI Squared have transformed a flagship investment advisory firm’s approach to analytics, ensuring scalable, AI-enhanced performance with unmatched security and manageability.
Vertical Relevance and AWS hosted an Operational Resiliency event for executives and professionals in the financial services industry. The event was designed to provide new strategies to protect mission-critical applications, uncover potential weaknesses, and meet regulatory requirements. The event discussed the changing nature of threats and disruptions and showcased the best methods to prepare for and respond to them. It also addressed the changing expectations of regulators to help operational resilience professionals prioritize their efforts.
How Bank of Montreal (BMO) gained a deeper understanding of their data habits, operational processes, and gained control of their data to leverage its maximum capabilities.
The finance sector is in a constant state of change and must confront ongoing challenges. Resilience and adherence to regulations are crucial within these institutions, as they hold considerable financial implications. Vertical Relevance and AWS Professional Services have extensive experience in helping financial services institutions achieve operational resiliency on AWS. Together, AWS Professional Services and Vertical Relevance guide their customers through this Resiliency Journey, allowing customers at different stages of resiliency maturity to join at different points.
Regular and robust resiliency testing provides assurances your cloud application can weather whatever outages may occur. The Vertical Relevance Resiliency Automation Framework can help guarantee your workload can prevail through disruptions and failures and prevent the damaging consequences of an outage. Reach out to us to learn more about how we can help you meet your resiliency requirements.
Learn how leading Financial Services institutions increase agility and accelerate innovation on the AWS cloud. Hear how institutions are building on AWS empowers organizations to modernize their infrastructure, meet rapidly changing customer behaviors and expectations, and drive business growth.
By engaging with Vertical Relevance, SMBC was able to obtain and automate a secure, reliable, cost-effective network to connect the on-prem data center with its AWS VPC. The SMBC team looked for expertise in the architecture and creation of AWS VPCs and connectivity back to SMBC’s internal network in order to enable the application teams to deploy and run the platform.
This is the latest example of how Vertical Relevance is a leader in the Policy as Code space. This post outlined how to operationalize PaC with a serverless Evaluation Engine as part of the broader Control Broker solution. Get in touch with us to learn more about the benefits of operationalizing the automated enforcement of security policies
Leading companies in Financial Services are already using AWS. Contact our industry experts and start your own AWS Cloud journey today. If you are looking to provide automation, consistency, predictability, and visibility to your software release process, we can help.
