Financial Transactions

How Nomura Modernized Risk Infrastructure with MinIO AIStor

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 13 January 2026

Executive Summary Nomura’s Risk Advisory division transformed its data infrastructure by modernizing from an aging Hadoop environment to a hybrid object-native data lakehouse powered by MinIO AIStor. This shift delivered measurable gains in performance, stability, and scalability, reducing operational costs and risk, while improving data availability and supporting future AI and analytics workloads. Key benefits included: * Performance: Benchmarking demonstrated

MinIO AIStor-powered Data Lakehouse Helps Accelerate AI and Analytics for a Global Financial Institution

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 22 December 2025

1. Executive Summary A global financial institution modernized its Data Analytics Platform, shifting from legacy, appliance-based storage to a high-performance, cloud-native MinIO AIStor-powered data lakehouse. This transition cut deployment time by 50%, maximized data insights, boosted AI model efficiency, improved existing analytics workflows, and enabled entirely new AI-driven use cases. 2. The Environment Like many global financial institutions, this organization

How MinIO AIStor helped transform a global digital payments provider’s S3 private cloud

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 23 October 2025

This global digital payments provider has provided online payment systems for nearly 30 years, seeing its highest rates of growth over the past ten years. Its user base expanded from over 150 million to more than 400 million customers worldwide which boosted its total payment volume from $200 billion to more than $1.5 trillion. This led to their data

Financial Institution Reduces Fraud Risk using AI built on AIStor Data Lakehouse

David Koppe David Koppe on Case Study | 23 October 2025

1. Executive Summary A leading national payment and financial infrastructure provider transformed its analytics and fraud detection capabilities by migrating from a legacy Hadoop system to a modern data lakehouse powered by MinIO AIStor and Trino on Kubernetes. The shift delivered a 65% reduction in fraud model runtime, a fivefold increase in workload capacity, and significant cost savings by replacing