Cloud spending in the financial services industry has been on a growth curve, and Amazon Web Services Inc. has gained momentum in this sector. For financial services companies, broader cloud adoption has led to a heightened focus on data and new ways to organize and manage vast amounts of information to create intelligent solutions using AI.How the financial world is leveraging data to transform operations and increase customer value was a central focus of theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Financial Services Symposium. TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, provided insights through interviews with company executives, customers and partners. (* Disclosure below

As companies invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Informatica Inc. is sounding the call for modernized data management.The saying, “garbage in, garbage out,” has become an apt expression for AI, which is more likely to produce inaccurate results when being fed poor data.Informatica’s Peter Ku talks about the lack of data management expertise in the tech industry.“Everyone’s ready for AI, but your data’s not,” said Peter Ku (pictured), vice president and chief industry strategist of banking, capital markets and financial services at Informatica