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Secure Data Exchange for Financial Institutions
Overcome the challenges of timely data exchange with a highly secure and efficient process to streamline data orchestration across your ecosystem. Reduce friction in data sharing outside your organization with Confluent Cloud clusters at the edge.
Optimize External Data Sharing
To efficiently deliver real-time financial services (e.g., credit card or trade transactions), there is a choreography of data interactions that takes place under the covers. These processes can trigger many other background subprocesses that include transferring funds and settling/clearing trades – transactions that require an additional layer of data orchestration both within the organization and across multiple external parties, including market partners, custodians, DTCC, and regulatory authorities.
Traditional methods for this data exchange come with limitations, not the least of which includes batch-level speed, quality of service, and end-to-end data governance. Confluent helps financial institutions overcome these challenges with real-time data exchange at the edge, enabling highly secure and accurate data sharing not just within your own ecosystem, but across partners and other third-party data providers.
Seamless external share of trustworthy real-time data.
Protect the sovereignty of internal data.
Remove the burden on internal infrastructure.
Improve performance and scalability.
Build with Confluent
This use case leverages the following building blocks in Confluent Cloud.
Reference Architecture
The sample reference architecture below illustrates how to provision a Confluent Cloud cluster at the edge for secure data interchange.
Integrate traditional external methods of flat file transmissions, legacy messaging, API calls, or webhooks via a comprehensive array of source and sink connectors.
Provision a cluster at the edge to isolate internal operations, data, and systems from external access.
Seamlessly move data across dedicated clusters in any multi-AZ region supported by major cloud service providers (AWS and Azure in the example above) using private networking.
Ensure a consistent communication protocol and data format for easier integration with existing systems and external partners.
Protect sensitive and confidential financial data during the exchange. Bring and control your own encryption key (BYOK), and use Confluent’s Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) as an additional security layer.