Modernisation in FSI: Building a hybrid, highly available and GenAI‑ready data platform

March 31
10 a.m. SAST

Finance and insurance teams are under pressure to ship GenAI use cases while keeping mission‑critical systems resilient, compliant, and fast. Yet many are still running a patchwork of multiple SQL clusters for core workloads, separate engines for logs and analytics, and custom glue code for anything AI‑related. The result: complexity, latency, and rising risk.

During this live webinar on March 31, Johann Thooris, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at MongoDB and Jonathan Oaker, Founder and CTO CloudZA will share how a hybrid data platform can serve transactions, failover, log analytics, and GenAI side‑by‑side.

You’ll learn how to keep RPO/RTO under control, scale read/write performance for spiky financial workloads, and power AI features like RAG and intelligent assistants using native vector search, auto‑embedding and VoyageAI models without copying data across half a dozen systems.

You’ll leave with concrete patterns you can apply immediately: how to design for hybrid + DR, how to treat logs as a first‑class dataset for observability and fraud insights, and how to make your data stack GenAI‑ready without rewriting every core system.

What we’ll cover (Live Demo):

✅The Transaction Simulator: A real-time look at the clearing stage, evaluating synthetic transactions (Account Takeover, Card Testing, etc.) against behavioral baselines.
✅Uncovering Fraud Rings: A live walkthrough of Network Visualization using $graphLookup to instantly trace money laundering loops and hidden relationships between accounts.
✅The "Side-by-Side" Pipeline: How to ingest 26,000+ transactions and 50+ rich customer profiles into MongoDB to create an "Intelligence Layer" alongside your legacy core.
✅Agentic Investigation Reports: Using LLMs (via the Model Context Protocol) to automatically generate suspicious activity reports (SARs) based on the data discovered in the demo tool.