Effective Internal Risk Models for FRTB Compliance: Risk Management with Neo4j [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 8, 2018 < 1 min read
In this series on the FRTB, we delved into what is required for effective internal risk models using a graph database like Neo4j. In previous weeks, we looked at the requirements of FRTB compliance and the relationship between risk modeling… Read more →
Keywords: data lineage • data silos • frtb compliance • FRTB Risk Management • graph database • investment risk • neo4j • risk assessment • trace risk data lineage • trading desks
Microservice and Module Management with Neo4j
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 3, 2018 18 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by John Lavin at GraphConnect New York in October 2017. Presentation Summary Refactoring monolithic applications into microservices requires putting thought into managing code and its dependencies. At Vanguard Group, some of the existing Java… Read more →
Keywords: afferent coupling • cypher • efferent coupling • Graph Databases • graphconnect • java • microservices • module management • monolithic software • Structure101
Effective Internal Risk Models for FRTB Compliance: Risk Modeling Requires Data Lineage
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 24, 2018 5 mins read
Where did the data come from, originally? That’s a key question that the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) rules will require banks to answer in real-time. Banks must be able to decompose risk models to uncover the full… Read more →
Keywords: bank regulations • BCBS • compliance • data connections • data governance • data lineage • financial services • FRTB • investment data • risk analysis
Graphs4Good: Connected Data for a Better World
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 20, 2018 6 mins read
You’re reading this because of a napkin. It was the year 2000, and I was on a flight to Mumbai. Peter, Johan and I had been building an enterprise content management system (ECM) but kept running up against the challenge… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data journalism • data science • fake news • graph technology • Graphs4Good • icij • nasa • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers
Effective Internal Risk Models for FRTB Compliance: The Importance of Risk Model Approval
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 10, 2018 5 mins read
Sweeping regulations are changing the way banks handle risk. The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) represents an important shift designed to provide a firm foundation for the future. While laws passed after the financial crisis offered a patchwork,… Read more →
Keywords: Basel IV • BCBS • data lineage • data silos • FRTB • graph database • internal risk model approval • internal risk models • risk compliance • risk management
Financial Risk Reporting: Building a Risk Metadata Foundation
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 6, 2018 4 mins read
Regulations, such as BCBS 239, are driving banks to reexamine the way they manage financial risk management data. Building a connected data foundation supports a world of innovative uses of your enterprise data – including 360-degree visibility of your customers,… Read more →
Keywords: BCBS 239 • Connected Data • financial risk reporting • financial services • governance • Graph Databases • native graph database • nosql • relational database • risk metadata
Congrats to Cerved and LARUS for Winning the Big Data Analytics Award from Digital360
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 3, 2018 3 mins read
On July 2018, Cerved – a Neo4j customer – has been awarded with the Big Data Analytics prize, by a panel of 50 CIOs working for the most important Italian companies, at the Digital360 Awards 2018, thanks to its Graph4you… Read more →
Keywords: big data analytics • cerved • data connections • Digital360 Awards • financial services • graph algoritms • Graph Databases • graph technology • Graph4you • Larus
Financial Risk Reporting:
The Connected Nature of Financial Risk
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 30, 2018 6 mins read
As governmental regulations tighten, today’s banks must have a thorough and systematic understanding of risk calculations and their associated data lineage – including where underlying data originates and how it flows through enterprise systems. Forward-looking banks are uniting data silos… Read more →
Keywords: BCBS 239 • Connected Data • data lineage • data management • financial risk reporting • financial services • governance • Graph Databases • legal entity identifiers • risk data
Casinos on Graphs: 5-Minute Interview with
Joe Stefaniak, CEO of IntelligentTag
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 27, 2018 5 mins read
“Especially when it comes to the financial sector or gaming, people need answers in real time,” said Joe Stefaniak, CEO of IntelligentTag. From slots and games to guest services to financial systems, casinos are chock full of data sources. Whether… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • ai • APOC • Connected Data • data governance • gaming industry • Graph Algorithm • graph database • machine learning • rdbms
DevOps on Graphs:
The 5-Minute Interview with Ashley Sun, Software Engineer at LendingClub
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 23, 2018 3 mins read
“Basically, anything you can think of in your infrastructure, whether it’s GitHub, Jenkins, AWS, load balancers, Cisco UCS, vCenter – it’s all in our graph database,” said Ashley Sun, Software Engineer at LendingClub. DevOps at LendingClub is no easy feat:… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • AWS • Cisco UCS • cloud orchestration • deployment automation • DevOps • graphconnect • microservices • release automation • sql
How to Import the Bitcoin Blockchain into Neo4j [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 9, 2018 8 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] This guide runs through the basic steps for importing the bitcoin blockchain into a Neo4j graph… Read more →
Keywords: Bitcoin • block header • blockchain • cryptocurrency • cypher • digital currency • distributed network • graph database • Segregated Witness • sql
The ICIJ Releases Neo4j Desktop Download of Paradise Papers
By Ryan Boyd, Developer Relations
December 1, 2017 2 mins read
Early this morning (1 Dec.), the Pulitzer Prize-winning International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released an ICIJ version of Neo4j Desktop which includes the Paradise Papers and the other Offshore Leaks graph data. This desktop package – available for Windows,… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • data journalism • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • icij • Neo4j Browser • Neo4j Desktop • PageRank • paradise papers
Analyzing the Paradise Papers with Neo4j: A Closer Look at Queries, Data Models & More
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 13, 2017 7 mins read
Our friends from the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) just announced the Paradise Papers this past week, a new trove of leaked documents from the law firm Appleby and trust company Asiaciti. Similar to the Panama Papers before (which… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • cypher • Duchy of Lancaster • graph algorithms • graph visualization • icij • neo4j • Panama Papers • paradise papers • Wilbur Ross
Cybersecurity & Graph Technology: An Excellent Fit
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 19, 2017 5 mins read
Cybersecurity We are becoming increasingly dependent on technology. Yet, without diligent attention paid to cybersecurity, technology is vulnerable to unauthorized access, change or even destruction. These vulnerabilities pose threats to our individual and collective safety, security and human and economic… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • Connected Data • cyber threat intelligence • cybersecurity • Equifax • financial data • graph technology • GraphAware • graphconnect • mitre
Financial Services & Neo4j: 360-Degree View of Customer Experience
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 21, 2017 3 mins read
Customer expectations are rising at a time when customer service is a significant differentiator within the financial services industry. Customers expect companies to deliver personalized service – i.e., an end-to-end customer experience – that reflects an understanding of who they… Read more →
Keywords: 360-degree view of customer • Connected Data • credit card industry • credit card provider • customer experience • customer experience management • financial services • graph technology • Master Data Management • MDM
Financial Services & Neo4j: Identity & Access Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 24, 2017 4 mins read
Within the IT organization of any financial services enterprise, identity and entitlements management must be managed to minimize risk. Over time, the centralized entitlements structure – whether represented in Active Directory or an LDAP directory – grows in such a… Read more →
Keywords: access management • Active Directory • Connected Data • financial services • fraud prevention • identity and access management • identity management • Information Security • LDAP directory • permissions management
Graph Technology for Enterprise Master Data Management (MDM)
By Rachel Howard
July 14, 2017 9 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Aaron Wallace at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary Modern enterprises need to have a full, 360-view of their customers drive their bottom line. This requires the integration of data from… Read more →
Keywords: customer information management • data quality • fraud detection • graphconnect • Knowledge Graph • Master Data Management • MDM • metadata management • Pitney Bowes • single customer view
Financial Services & Neo4j: Network & IT Infrastructure Monitoring
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 10, 2017 4 mins read
Discovering, capturing and making sense of complex interdependencies is central to managing IT infrastructure more effectively, and it is also a critical part of running the businesses IT serves. Whether it’s optimizing a network or an application infrastructure, managing change… Read more →
Keywords: dependency management • financial services • GDPR • it infrastructure • IT infrastructure monitoring • microservices • network infrastructure • Network Monitoring • RBS • Royal Bank of Scotland
Financial Services & Neo4j: Anti-Money Laundering
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 26, 2017 4 mins read
Reducing the risk of money laundering presents a similar challenge to that of fraud detection when it comes to today’s financial services landscape. Firms need to know where funds come from and where they are headed, but criminals use indirection… Read more →
Keywords: AML • anti-money laundering • cypher • Data Visualization • financial services • fraud detection • graph technology • money transfer • smurfing • sql
Financial Services & Neo4j: Fraud Detection
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 19, 2017 5 mins read
Identifying and stopping fraudulent activity is harder than ever for financial services organizations. Standard anti-fraud technologies — such as a deviation from normal purchasing patterns — use discrete data. This is useful for catching individual criminals acting alone, but discrete… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • cypher • Data Visualization • financial services • Fortune 500 • fraud detection • fraud ring • graph technology • Microsoft SQL Server • relational database
Financial Services & Neo4j: Data Lineage & Metadata Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 30, 2017 3 mins read
Regulatory compliance requires financial services firms to have visibility into data lineage, information and process flows. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), for example, requires public firms to understand who has access to what data, what data resides in which systems, and… Read more →
Keywords: Bank • data lineage • financial services • Global 500 • graph technology • knowledge base • master data • metadata management • regulatory compliance • Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The 5-Minute Interview: Aaron Wallace, Product Manager at Pitney Bowes
By Rachel Howard
May 26, 2017 4 mins read
“We knew we couldn’t come to market with the same old solution and be competitive – so we decided to explore a differentiated solution,” said Aaron Wallace, Product Manager at Pitney Bowes. As a software company prepared to enter the… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • AML • customer information management • data lineage • data quality • financial services • Master Data Management • metadata management • Pitney Bowes • Retail
Financial Services & Neo4j: Financial Asset Graphs
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 24, 2017 4 mins read
In today’s regulatory environment, financial services firms are beginning to experience the impact of graph databases across a number of functions ranging from fighting financial crimes, preventing and responding to cyber threats and ensuring regulatory compliance. Meanwhile, as the continuous… Read more →
Keywords: anti-money laundering • asset graph • cerved • credit rating agencies • credit risk analysis • financial asset • financial services • regulatory compliance • risk management • risk/reward ratio
Graph-Based Enterprise Architecture Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 28, 2017 4 mins read
Today, enterprise architects are required to deliver insights quickly and make sense of large amounts of enterprise data (business knowledge, application information, technology assets, etc.). In this process, understanding and modeling interdependencies between entities is key. With relationships at the… Read more →
Keywords: CMDB • enterprise architect • enterprise architecture • enterprise architecture framework • graph visualization • impact analysis • Linkurious • network infrastructure • Network Management • relational database
Fraud Prevention with Neo4j: A 5-Minute Overview
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 21, 2017 5 mins read
Fraud is becoming increasingly difficult to discover and prevent as fraudsters are increasingly employing complex techniques and advanced technologies to perpetrate fraud. Who Are Today’s Fraudsters? Today, fraudsters are organized in groups, possess synthetic or manufactured identities – which in… Read more →
Keywords: credit card fraud • data science • ecommerce fraud • financial services • fraud detection • fraud pattern • fraud prevention • Fraud Rings • Insurance Fraud • pattern analysis