Delivering highly performant and efficient solutions across the full spectrum of FSI workloads
Financial services industry (FSI) institutions need high performance computing solutions that enable faster trading and transactions, speed access to market intelligence, and improve customer experiences—while keeping TCO down, system management streamlined, and security intact. Discover how AMD solutions address these imperatives across the four major FSI segments: banking, capital markets, insurance, and payments.
AMD powers solutions that can drive exceptionally low latency for FSI applications, high performance per core, and leadership acceleration / compute offload.
By using AMD processor-based solutions, organizations may be able to reduce their server footprint—driving power and cost efficiencies that can help address sustainability goals.
AMD processor-powered solutions are built on cutting-edge security features that help protect sensitive financial data and transactions—including real-time system memory encryption, hardware-based protection, and more.
Grid computing requires dynamic workload balancing, high availability, and robust parallel processing. As a result, organizations need high-density server solutions that can enable faster simulations, more extensive algorithm analysis, and cheaper calculations for regulatory compliance and risk management.
AMD EPYC™ server processor-based solutions offer exceptional performance per core and core density, and come with large L3 cache that keeps data closer to cores—all ideal for Risk Analysis. AMD also offers a dedicated accelerator card for ultra-low latency pre-trade risk assessment and regulatory compliance—the Alveo™ UL3524.
AI is revolutionizing every industry, and FSI is no exception. Organizations need technologies that can support robust AI-driven capabilities such as customer chatbots, automated lending, personalized recommendations, real-time fraud prevention, and more.
These capabilities demand high memory and high memory bandwidth solutions. AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct™ accelerator-based solutions enable exactly that. AMD also offers a dedicated accelerator card that helps provide real-time market data reliably for brokerages and exchanges—the Alveo UL3524.
AMD products deliver powerful performance with high clock speeds ideal for electronic trading, plus high core counts for multithreaded processing power ideal for trading simulations. Depending on the type of trading, latency requirements may vary. AMD offers solutions to address the full spectrum of requirements.
Proprietary traders, hedge funds, and exchanges requiring ultra-low latency rely on Alveo accelerator cards to enable electronic trading at nanosecond speeds.
Sophisticated, automated algorithms are used in high frequency trading to execute large numbers of transactions at a time. The combination of AMD Ryzen™ 7950X processors with AMD Alveo™ X3 or AMD Solarflare™ X2 Ethernet adapters delivers compelling performance for the STAC-N1 benchmark, which measures how network stacks perform in a simulated market data environment. Read the blog.
Some electronic trading involves holding periods that are longer than those in ultra-low latency or high frequency trading scenarios. Different trading frequencies may imply different trading strategies, which may also influence the underlying hardware. The 4th Gen AMD EPYC family includes high frequency SKUs, denoted with an “F” at the end of the model’s name, that can offer competitive advantages for latency-constrained trading. AMD Ryzen PRO processors also offer advanced compute capability and minimal latency for algorithmic trading.
FSI workforces require business systems that yield maximal employee productivity to keep pace with the demands of ever-changing market landscapes. Unlock the full potential of your users by arming them with the latest technology to experiment, iterate, and innovate at speed.
AMD EPYC server processors play an instrumental role in enabling compute for FSI both on-premises and in the cloud. EPYC processors deliver exceptional performance, power efficiency, and x86 compatibility for simplified migration.
Each EPYC processor also comes equipped with AMD Infinity Guard1—a full suite of modern security features that help decrease potential attack surfaces as software is booted, executed, and processes critical data.
Featured Partner
CompatibL is a leading provider of trading and risk software in the financial services market. In considering the industry's ongoing pursuit of digital transformation and competitive differentiation, CompatibL tested their CompatibL Platform solution on AMD 4th Gen EPYC processors in AWS and observed that their application ran performantly and scaled linearly on AMD CPUs with no code changes required.
Featured Benchmark
In the realm of quantitative finance, QuantLib is an open-source suite that serves as a proxy for HPC / grid algorithms. AMD EPYC processor-based cloud instances can outperform the competition when running QuantLib benchmarks.2,3
AWS
Up to 210% max higher performance/$ with AWS EC2 M6a instances powered by EPYC vs. competitive solutions2
Microsoft Azure
Up to 170% max higher performance/$ with Ds Azure x86 instances powered by EPYC vs. competitive solutions3
AMD Alveo adaptive accelerators address the unique requirements of the financial market, which often demands a convergence of low latency networking and hardware acceleration for algorithmic trading, pre-trade risk analysis, and market data delivery services at nanosecond speeds.
The Alveo X3522PV, Alveo UL3422, and Alveo UL3524 accelerators target low-latency and ultra-low-latency trading, respectively, for algorithms that prioritize trade execution performance vs. algorithmic complexity. The Alveo V80, Alveo U55C, and Alveo U50 accelerator cards' compute accelerators offer more resources for complex trading algorithms, risk and price modeling, and data analytics. The VCK5000 development card features AI engines for AI-based trading at deterministic latency.
Based on 3rd Gen AMD CDNA™ architecture with Matrix Core Technology, AMD Instinct MI300 Series GPU accelerators are uniquely well-suited to power even the most demanding AI and HPC workloads. They are supported by the open and proven AMD ROCm™ software stack, which offers a broad set of ecosystem tools for any-size deployment.
Featured Benchmark
AMD Ryzen PRO processor-powered systems can offer better performance vs competitive alternatives when running the Cinebench R23 nT benchmark.4
Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 2 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840 enables up to 2.4X better performance vs Dell Latitude 7340 with Intel core i7-1265U4
Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 2 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840 delivers up to 76% higher performance vs. Dell XPS 13+ with Intel core i7 1360P4
Viewing the world through financial data means intensive visualization to gain market insights through analytics. Integrated AMD Radeon graphics available in professional AMD Ryzen processor-powered laptops and desktops deliver immersive visuals, 4K streaming, and support the latest high-res displays and multimonitor setups.
AMD Solarflare X-Series Ethernet adapters, coupled with the Onload™ family of protocol acceleration software, have been deployed in leading banks, trading firms, stock exchanges, hedge funds and market makers worldwide for over 15 years. They offer field-proven low latency, are built on optimized architecture for reliable operation and trade execution, and support 10/25/40/100GbE link speeds.
AMD partners offer proven products and acceleration solutions, leveraging AMD technology to accelerate the time to production of complex systems in the cloud or on-premises.
*All performance and cost savings claims are provided by the company or organization mentioned herein and have not been independently verified by AMD. Performance and cost benefits are impacted by a variety of variables. Results herein are specific to the respective organization or company and may not be typical. GD-181.
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