Financial Services
Take That Leap Of Faith” Meet The Googler Helping Customers Create Financial Inclusion
Editor’s note: Arabella Gilles is the Senior Program Manager at Google Cloud, helping to drive Cloud’s work to empower Black owned businesses in the financial services industry. Arabella channeled her hospitality background to build trust and lasting relationships with these businesses, showing how Cloud could help scale their businesses and build financial inclusion for …
Tick Data Analytics Performance In Google Cloud Improves Up To 18x In Latest STAC Benchmark
The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC®), an organization that improves technology discovery and assessment in the finance industry through dialog and research, recently audited the STAC-M3™ benchmark suite on Google Cloud (SUT ID KDB211210). These enterprise tick-analytics benchmarks assess the ability of a solution stack such as database software, servers, and storage, to perform a …
Implementing HKMA’s Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) On Google Cloud
In this post, we will discuss how Google Cloud can be used as a backup storage solution to support the objectives of the Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) guideline developed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Hong Kong Association of Banks. We will focus on the storage location and its surrounding security controls. …
How Technology Is Forging The Foundation For More Efficient, Transparent And Secure Financial Markets
Financial markets were among the first to adopt new technologies, and that has certainly been true of the derivatives markets, which were early adopters of electronic trading. Going forward, new capabilities will transform the way industry participants communicate, analyze, and trade. I sat down with Google Cloud’s Phil Moyer and former SEC Commissioner, Troy Paredes, …
Consensual Embedded Finance Is Safer And More Fun
When banks and other financial institutions make their products available via non-banks, we call that Embedded Finance. Think, for example, of a retailer offering financing for people buying goods; or a budgeting app gathering bank transactions to help you categorize and understand your spending patterns. The finance – the money management – has been embedded …
Google Cloud Launches New Dedicated Digital Assets Team
Blockchain technology is yielding tremendous innovation and value creation for consumers and businesses around the world. As the technology becomes more mainstream, companies need scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure on which to grow their businesses and support their networks. We believe Google Cloud can play an important role in this evolution. Building on our existing …