UK ISV FSI Cloud Resources
FSI Pod
I'm currently aligned within the FSI Pod within the UK. This pod comprises of Mike Haigh, Kevin Lief, Jason Adae, Lisa MacDonald and James Lockyer - together, we work alongside Finance Industry focused ISVs.
Working in this space has led to many interesting conversations that generally follow themes, such as moving from on-premise solutions to the cloud, building new PaaS base solutions, designing and new building SaaS applications and recently the UK Azure Datacenter. We often get asked what resources are available from Microsoft to help them. So here is a curated list of them below, I'll try and keep this up to date:
Finance IndustryResources
Microsoft Service Trust Portal: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/STP/default.aspx
Finance in the cloud: https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-gb/articles/industries/insurance/finance-in-the-cloud/
Digital Transformation in the Shifting Landscape of Financial Services: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-transformation-shifting-landscape-financial-services-hodson
Microsoft's approach to the Financial Conduct Authority's FG 16/5 Guidance for firms outsourcing to the cloud: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/about/ent/enabling-compliance/
Microsoft enterprise focus on finance industry: https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-gb/industries/finance/
Free cloud eBook for C-level execs: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/about/ent/intelligent-cloud/default.aspx
How can Financial Institutions thrive in a digital world? https://aka.ms/he1zbp
Making Banking Personal Again - Augmented intelligence in banking and capital markets: https://msenterprise.global.ssl.fastly.net/wordpress/2017/01/AI-in-banking-and-capital-markets.pdf
GDPR - preparing for a new era in privacy regulation: https://microsoft.com/gdpr
GDPR Hub: https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-gb/trends/understanding-the-gdpr/
Case Studies
Often we get asked for case studies or examples of financial institutions that have moved to Azure. So here are some examples:
TSB Bank leverages disruption in the retail banking sector: https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-us/articles/industries/banking-and-capital-markets/tsb-bank-leverages-disruption-retail-banking-sector/
Applied Blockchain: Building real-world blockchain applications just got easier with Microsoft: https://blogs.business.microsoft.com/en-gb/2017/04/03/building-real-world-blockchain-applications-just-got-easier-microsoft/
Simudyne: AI simulation startup makes accurate financial decisions with the power of Microsoft Azure: https://blogs.business.microsoft.com/en-gb/2017/03/09/ai-simulation-startup-makes-accurate-financial-decisions-power-microsoft-azure/
ClearBank: Launch of first new UK clearing bank in over 250 years: https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-us/articles/industries/banking-and-capital-markets/microsoft-collaborates-with-clearbank-launch-of-first-new-uk-clearing-bank-in-over-250-years/
Cendit: Social money transfer with Microsoft Azure: https://blogs.business.microsoft.com/en-gb/2017/02/21/bank-start-streamlines-social-money-transfer-microsoft-azure/
FreedomPay: First PCI-Validated payment security platform for retailers on Azure: https://corporate.freedompay.com/blog_article/payments-on-microsoft-azure-and-new-alliances-in-the-real-time-retail-ecosystem/
Metro Bank: https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-us/industries/banking-and-capital-markets/metro-bank/ and https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/a-uk-bank-looks-for-bi-thats-as-fast-friendly-and-reli
Hogarth: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/marketing-agency-creates-revolutionary-digital-marketi
Callcredit: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/consumer-data-management-business-reduces-time-to-mark
Aviva: UK Insurance Firm Uses Mobile App and Cloud Platform to Track Driving Behaviour
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-SQL-Server-2008-R2-Enterprise/Aviva/UK-Insurance-Firm-Uses-Mobile-App-and-Cloud-Platform-to-Track-Driving-Behavior/710000002635
Abide Financial Ltd: Financial Startup Uses Cloud to Deliver Scalable Transaction Processing Service
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Abide-Financial-Limited/Financial-Startup-Uses-Cloud-to-Deliver-Scalable-Transaction-Processing-Service/300000000081
Spikes Cavell: Government Spending Analytics Provider Uses Cloud to Scale Solution, Expand Overseas
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Spikes-Cavell/Government-Spending-Analytics-Provider-Uses-Cloud-to-Scale-Solution-Expand-Overseas/4000010842
Technical Resources
Real-time fraud detection with Stream Analytics: /en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-real-time-fraud-detection
Machine Learning - Online Fraud Detection Template: https://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com/Collection/Online-Fraud-Detection-Template-1
Fraud detection with SQL Server 2016 and R: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Machine-Learning-and-Data-Sciences-Conference/Data-Science-Summit-2016/K001 (Around 1:10:00)
Azure Machine Learning Experiments for the Banking industry - includes online fraud detection and anomaly detection: https://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com/industries/banking
Management and PCI Compliance Reference Architecture for Azure PaaS Line of Business Application by Avyan Consultancy: https://github.com/AvyanConsultingCorp/pci-paas-webapp-ase-sqldb-appgateway-keyvault-oms
Fraud detection for a mobile banking app using Cortana Intelligence Suite from //Build 2017: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/T6984