Modern data infrastructure
for
Financial Services

Financial institutions are reducing operational costs, accelerating processes, and competing with digital-native banks through AI-powered automation. SunnyData delivers the expertise to make it happen.

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THE REAL CHALLENGE

Legacy processes can't compete with digital-native speed.

Traditional financial institutions face mounting pressure: digital-native competitors operate at lower cost, with faster processes and leaner teams. Legacy operational models make it impossible to match digital competitors on speed, rates, and fees without sacrificing margin.

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Manual workloads eat capacity

Compliance reviews, KYC checks, and fraud monitoring consume teams of people who could be focused on higher-value client work.


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Data stays fragmented across silos

Customer intelligence lives in disconnected systems, making it nearly impossible to build personalization, real-time analytics, and ML capabilities.


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Vendor costs keep climbing

Proprietary AML platforms, fraud detection vendors, and BI licenses extract per-seat fees that grow faster than the value they deliver.

Process automation isn't optional anymore; it's existential.

HOW FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ARE RESPONDING

Intelligent automation for competitive operations.

Leading financial institutions are transforming operations through AI-powered automation, reducing manual workloads while improving accuracy and compliance.

Financial team leveraging AI-driven automation on Databricks to reduce processing overhead and transform cost structure

Cost structure transformation

AI-driven automation shrinks large processing teams to smaller oversight groups.
Free your team from repetitive tasks to focus on high-value assignments.

Cost structure transformation

AI-driven automation shrinks large processing teams to smaller oversight groups.
Free your team from repetitive tasks to focus on high-value assignments.

Financial professionals using unified governed data on Databricks to model, test, and launch new products in weeks, not quarters

Faster time-to-market
on new products

Unified, governed data lets product and risk teams model, test, and launch in weeks, not quarters.

Faster time-to-market
on new products

Unified, governed data lets product and risk teams model, test, and launch in weeks, not quarters.

Faster client onboarding

Transform multi-day KYC and account opening processes. Use AI to verify documents, check compliance databases, and assess risk in real-time.

Personalization at scale

Build the data foundation for personalized products and services. Unify fragmented customer data to enable analytics and ML capabilities that most legacy institutions lack entirely.

Personalization at scale

Build the data foundation for personalized products and services. Unify fragmented customer data to enable analytics and ML capabilities that most legacy institutions lack entirely.

Data analyst building personalized financial products on Databricks — unifying fragmented customer data for ML-driven personalization at scale
Financial services professionals greeting and onboarding — SunnyData's collaborative approach to Databricks implementation

Faster client onboarding

Transform multi-day KYC and account opening processes. Use AI to verify documents, check compliance databases, and assess risk in real-time.

OUR APPROACH

Built for your requirements.

Databricks consolidates data engineering, analytics, ML, and AI on a single platform purpose-built for regulated environments.

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Unified analytics and AI

Data engineering, analytics, ML, and AI on one platform. Eliminate data movements and duplicated infrastructure.

Built for compliance

Audit trails, lineage tracking, and access controls are built in. AML, KYC, and model risk requirements met without bolting on third-party tools.

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Predictable cost structure

Compute-based pricing with no per-seat licensing or surprise renewals. Your costs scale predictably with your actual usage.

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Tools your team already knows

Modern tools that data engineers, data scientists, and analysts already know. Reduce dependency on specialized vendor training and proprietary platforms.

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Real-time processing

Fraud detection, risk monitoring, and client analytics based on what's happening now. Move from batch-based decision-making to real-time responses.

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Open standards, your IP

Everything is built on open formats. You own it, understand it, and can maintain it independently.

REPLACE WHAT YOU’RE OVERPAYING FOR

Build on Databricks vs What you're paying now comparison for financial services. Replace legacy AML/KYC, fraud detection, and BI tools with custom Databricks-native ML and governance solutions

Your data team has outgrown expensive vendor solutions.

Organizations are systematically decommissioning packaged data products and building tailored solutions on Databricks at a fraction of the cost.

Organizations that build on open platforms reduce vendor
costs by 20–55%, increase control over their IP, and accelerate
time-to-market for new capabilities.

Reduce vendor
costs by
20–55%

Increase control over their IP, and accelerate
time-to-market for new capabilities.

COMPLIANCE FOUNDATION

Governance that accelerates, not obstructs.

In Financial Services, governance requires more than a single tool. We design comprehensive ecosystems built for your specific regulatory environment.

Compliance architecture built into every Databricks engagement — Unity Catalog provides lineage tracking, access controls, and audit capability for regulated financial environments

Built in from the start.

We architect compliance into the foundation of every engagement. Datanricks’ Unity Catalog provides the lineage tracking, access controls, and audit capability your regulatory environment demands, without slowing down the teams who depend on data.

Built in from the start.

We architect compliance into the foundation of every engagement. Datanricks’ Unity Catalog provides the lineage tracking, access controls, and audit capability your regulatory environment demands, without slowing down the teams who depend on data.

Audit-ready from day one

Every data access and model decision is logged with full lineage.

Audit-ready Databricks data platform — every data access and model decision logged with full lineage for financial services compliance
Role-based access controls on Databricks — granular permissions ensuring the right people see exactly the right financial data

Role-based access controls

Granular permissions ensure the right people see exactly the right data.

Audit-ready from day one

Every data access and model decision is logged with full lineage.

Model risk management

Governance built into the ML workflow means models ship faster and SR 11-7 documentation is automated.

Role-based access controls

Granular permissions ensure the right people see exactly the right data.

Model risk management

Governance built into the ML workflow means models ship faster and SR 11-7 documentation is automated.

ML model risk management on Databricks — governance built into the workflow with automated SR 11-7 documentation for financial institutions

Cross-regulatory coverage

One governance layer covers AML, KYC, GDPR, and CCPA. Forget about having a patchwork of point solutions.

Cross-regulatory compliance on Databricks — one governance layer covering AML, KYC, GDPR, and CCPA for financial services

Cross-regulatory coverage

One governance layer covers AML, KYC, GDPR, and CCPA. Forget about having a patchwork of point solutions.

Regional Bank study case. Migrated a legacy enterprise data warehouse to a unified lakehouse, eliminating data silos and enabling real-time regulatory reporting for the first time.
Regional Bank study case. Migrated a legacy enterprise data warehouse to a unified lakehouse, eliminating data silos and enabling real-time regulatory reporting for the first time.

CLIENT RESULTS

How a Regional Bank built its data future

60% reduction in report generation time with Databricks for financial services
3x increase in governed data assets available to analytics on Databricks

Migrated a legacy enterprise data warehouse to a unified lakehouse, eliminating data silos and enabling real-time regulatory reporting for the first time. The bank can now run compliance queries in seconds that previously required overnight batch jobs.

OUR APPROACH

Enablers, not vendors.

Most consultants solve your problem and leave. We transfer the capability to solve it yourself.
We understand the intricacies of risk, compliance, and governance in Finance. Our implementations balance automation with stakeholder needs, ensuring modernization without disrupting operations.

Knowledge transfer from day one

Every implementation includes documentation, training, and hands-on collaboration with your team. Our success metric goes beyond project completion; it's your team's self-sufficiency.

Build alongside your team

We don't work in isolation. Your data engineers, architects, and analysts are involved throughout, learning the patterns and decisions behind every solution.

No proprietary black boxes

Everything we build uses Databricks-native capabilities and open standards. You own the IP, understand how it works, and can maintain it without us.

Industry-specific expertise

Led by Allen Becker (PSA), our Financial Services practice focuses on cloud migrations to Databricks, AI/ML risk analysis tools, and governance frameworks for regulated environments.

Allen Becker, Principal SA and Financial Services Practice Lead at SunnyData. Expert in Databricks cloud migrations, AI/ML risk analysis, and governance frameworks for regulated financial institutions
Allen Becker, Principal SA and Financial Services Practice Lead at SunnyData

Allen leads our Financial Services practice with deep experience in cloud migrations to Databricks, AI/ML risk analysis tools, and governance frameworks for regulated environments across regional and national financial institutions.

Allen Becker

Principal SA • Financial Services Practice Lead • SME

Restructure how your organization operates to compete in a digital-first world.

Your team has the talent. Databricks provides the platform. SunnyData accelerates the transition.