AML Catalyst: Beating Alert Fatigue
A Blueprint for AI-powered Anti-Money Laundering on Databricks How financial institutions can collapse false-positive volume, accelerate SAR filing, and stay audit-ready without replacing their detection technologies. Global regulators have imposed billions in AML-related penalties every year for the better part of a decade. Transaction volumes continue to grow double-digits. Alert queues are growing faster than […]
Conversational Analytics – How to solve the “Last Mile” of Analytics…
The Last Mile Problem in Analytics Over the past decade, organizations have made extraordinary investments in their data platforms. Data lakes, cloud warehouses, lakehouse architectures, semantic layers. The infrastructure has never been more capable. And yet, for most business users, getting an answer to a data question still follows a familiar and frustrating path: find the right person, submit a […]
Agentic Policy Management for Financial Institutions: How Infinitive and Databricks Are Rewriting the Compliance Playbook
A Compliance Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight For national and mid-sized banks, cybersecurity compliance has long been a board-level priority, but growing regulatory expectations now require institutions to demonstrate continuous, evidence-based compliance at a level of rigor, speed, and traceability that legacy policy management processes were never designed to support. Yet the way most institutions […]
The Blueprint to a Unified Operation: Building an Enterprise-Ready Databricks Center of Excellence
As organizations accelerate their adoption of Databricks for analytics, AI, and data engineering, many quickly realize that scaling the platform across business units is far more complex than simply spinning up a workspace. Teams often struggle with fragmented ownership, inconsistent governance, rising cloud costs, unclear access models, and an inability to operationalize best practices at […]
Quantum Computing and U.S. Retail Banking: Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Quantum Advantage | Infinitive’s Quantum Series, Part 1
Over the past decade, advances in generative AI, cloud migration, and big‑data analytics have defined the modernization journey for U.S. retail banks. Now, a new frontier is emerging : quantum computing : poised to redefine risk modeling, cybersecurity, fraud detection, cryptography, and portfolio management. For banks that compete on speed, trust, and insight, understanding quantum’s […]
Driving a Sustainable Control Environment through Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Challenge A Top 10 US Bank deployed dozens of new controls across several of its enterprise service areas in response to intensifying regulatory scrutiny and inadequate findings from recent audits. Early results from the first wave of control testing highlighted deficiencies in the design and/or execution of many of the new controls. Additionally, controls once […]
Cloud Data & Risk Controls
Challenge A Fortune 100 FSI needed to understand and control data management risks as it transitioned from running daily batch jobs to streaming data in near real time. The client required Infinitive’s help to implement a new data governance strategy to ensure data integrity and validity. Solution Over 12-weeks, Infinitive engaged with cross-functional teams of […]
How to Optimize Your 1st Party Data – Step 2: Protect
Is your governance framework protecting your 1st Party Data? In our first blog of the Consumer Intelligence series (1st Party Data, Clean Rooms, and Privacy — Why it’s so Hot), we emphasized the importance of your 1st party data and how Infinitive helps companies get the value out of their data by a 3-step process […]
Taking on Technology: One Intern at a Time
The summer flew by and so did Infinitive’s Technology Internship program. This year, Infinitive welcomed 13 interns to the consultancy where they dove deep into cloud computing, full stack application development, data analytics, project management and ultimately became Certified Cloud Practitioners. The interns were divided into teams to work on three different projects: Media Consumer […]
Increase the Clarity of Your Cloud
It’s been sixteen years since AWS made its Simple Storage Solution (S3) available to a third party, yet, despite innumerable advances in cloud infrastructure, services, and use cases, many organizations are still unsure (or perhaps unconvinced) of the cloud’s value proposition. In our experience, those organizations that are still contemplating whether they should use the […]