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AWS Releases User Guide for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
Amazon recently released the AWS User Guide to the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The document details how AWS services support financial entities in complying with DORA's requirements for operational resilience, including ICT risk management, incident reporting, testing, and third-party risk management.
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Seven Essential Tracks at QCon London 2024: GenAI, FinTech, Platform Engineering & More!
InfoQ’s international software development conference, QCon London, returns on April 8-10, 2024. The conference will feature 15 carefully curated tracks and 60 technical talks over 3 days.
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Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention, by Neha Narkhede at QCon San Francisco
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Neha Narkhede gave a keynote on how generative AI can help improve the state of the art in fraud prevention. She discussed the "knowledge fabric", which is able to capture all information and knowledge on current fraud methods. She also introduced six foundational pillars of AI Risk Decisioning.
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Bloomberg Unveils a GPT Finance-Focused AI Model
Bloomberg has released BloombergGPT, a new large language model (LLM) that has been trained on enormous amounts of financial data and can help with a range of natural language processing (NLP) activities for the financial sector.
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AWS Announces a Data Management and Analytics Solution Called Amazon FinSpace
Recently, AWS announced a data management and analytics solution purpose-built for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) called Amazon FinSpace. The service aims to reduce the time it takes for financial analysts to find and access all types of financial data for analysis.
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Building a Banking Infrastructure with Microservices: QCon London Q&A
In a few years, the number of microservices has grown from 100 to 1600 at Monzo, and it continues to grow. Microservices are split when responsibilities grow, or merged when services are tightly coupled. Engineers can generate, deploy, scale and monitor their own services using code generation.
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Bank of America - Blockchain Data Storage Patent Released
On April 12, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a patent filing from the Bank of America outlining their plans for a permissioned blockchain implementation that enables personal and business data sharing. A user will authorize service providers to securely access their data, but only for the specific records they have access to.
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How Do You Fit a Core Banking System into a Few Containers? Insight from DOES EU 17
At the DevOps Enterprise Summit EU 2017, held in London, InfoQ sat down with Amine Boudali and Jose Quaresma and discussed key insights from their presentation “How Do You Fit a Core Banking System into a Few Containers?”
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Building Starling Bank in the Cloud: Greg Hawkins Discusses Open Banking, DevOps and Hackathons
At QCon London, Greg Hawkins presented “Building and Trusting a Cloud Bank”in which he discussed how the Starling Bank team has created a UK Bank running on the AWS public cloud. InfoQ caught up with Hawkins at a recent StarlingDev Hackathon, and discussed Open Banking and PSD2, the challenges of legacy applications, and what the future holds for online banking.
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Strata and StockTwits at Jax Finance 2017
InfoQ attended the Jax Finance conference held in London on April 4-5, 2017. Jax Finance is a vertical event, co-located with Jax DevOps. Speakers included Stephen Colebourne of Joda fame, Pierce Crosby from StockTwits, and Eric Horesnyi from StreamData.io
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JPMorgan Chase and Intuit to Securely Share Data Through APIs
JPMorgan Chase and Intuit announced a partnership to share bank financial data easily and securely through APIs on January 25. With this partnership, JPMorgan Chase customers can now authorize the bank to share their account data with Intuit’s financial management applications like Mint and TurboTax.
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Zeppelin: a Secure Smart Contracts Open-Source Framework for Blockchain Applications
Zeppelin is a MIT licensed open source secure smart contract development framework to build blockchain applications. It's a community effort pioneered to ensure only secure, tested and audited smart contract code makes it to a production blockchain, to reduce incidents such as "The DAO" hack. Zeppelin is intended to be blockchain-agnostic, but in the beginning they are focusing on Solidity tools.
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DevOps Survival in the Highly Regulated Financial Industry
Robert Scherrer, head of application engineering at SIX, on how the company leveraged DevOps principles and benefits in the highly regulated Swiss financial industry. Engaging with compliance auditors to collaboratively agree on solutions early before it's too costly to change and avoiding legacy internal directives (not actually required by external regulations) are the main takeaways.
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GS Collections Moves to the Eclipse Foundation
InfoQ talks to GS Collections creator Donald Raab about the just announced move of the GS Collections open source framework to the Eclipse Foundation
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Develop Financial Applications with F# and QuantLib
The usage of Microsoft F# in conjunction with QuantLib provides extensive possibilities for developers to build quantitative financial applications and this news report examines the steps required to create a simple F# application with QuantLib.