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Introducing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a fully managed analytics engine, commonly used by capital markets customers for analysis of real-time and historical time series data

Today, AWS is announcing Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, a new capability that makes it simple to configure, run, and manage kdb Insights on AWS. KX Systems’ kdb Insights, a high-performance analytics engine, is optimized for analyzing real-time and multi-petabyte historical time series data. Kdb Insights is widely used in capital markets to power […]

Making financial data accessible for analytics: how Amazon FinSpace can integrate with Snowflake

Amazon FinSpace makes it easy for analysts and quants to discover, analyze, and share data, reducing the time it takes to find and access financial data. What previously took months now can be completed in a matter of minutes. Using FinSpace you can work across your firm’s internal data silos to aggregate, catalog, and tag data […]

Using ESG data from AWS Data Exchange in Amazon FinSpace to correlate news sentiment with social and governance industry scores

Introduction Environmental, social and governance (ESG) data has become an indispensable data set for financial institutions – used to assess a company’s risk and performance. ESG is broadly defined as a set of non-financial criteria or metrics that reflect how a company performs as a steward of nature (measuring carbon emissions, water usage, waste management […]

How to Run What-if Scenarios for Trading Strategies with Amazon FinSpace

Introduction In an earlier blog post, we described an architecture for backtesting machine learning-based trading strategies on AWS. One of the key components in this architecture is the data management and analytics component. Depending on the specific use case, there are various options to implement this. Many companies adopt solutions based on data lakes and […]