Capital markets operate in a complex and regulated space. Within capital markets, asset management requires buy side financial firms to carry out large-scale investment decisions, run risk modeling, perform in-depth market research, and conduct portfolio management and real-time analytics – all in the process of raising capital. Increasing regulatory requirements for liquidity and reporting, eroding profitability of buy side firms, ever-growing securities transaction volumes, and real-time data analysis pressures are furthering large-scale computation needs, which are best served by the computation pool depth and storage variety of the cloud. Hyperscale cloud service providers (CSPs), like AWS, are becoming an important deciding factor on how financial firms utilize scaled out compute, storage, and analytics to best run their businesses and transform under regulatory pressure. Financial firms that manage institutional investor assets, and capital markets technology providers who provide the required IT infrastructure to these firms, are both looking to leverage the economies of scale, security, elasticity, and agility of AWS to improve client relationships, increase efficiency, relieve cost pressures, and run greater financial modeling at lower cost. This whitepaper outlines the use cases and solution patterns that organizations are building on AWS to transform the Asset Management space.
