Case Study: a leading bank achieves faster AI-driven data democratization with GFT’s Democratic Data Lab

a leading bank cuts ERM rollout from 36 to 9 months with GFT

GFT partnered with a leading global bank to address its challenge of fragmented and siloed data. The bank's legacy systems created a significant gap between its data assets and business users, hindering innovation and slowing down critical processes like risk modeling and financial analysis. The bank needed a strategic, unified approach to data management to become truly data-driven.

GFT designed and implemented a cloud-native Democratic Data Lab (DDL) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This solution provided a self-service portal for unified data access and tooling. The results were transformative: processing times reduced by 50-90%, manual effort on one process dropped from 600 to 50 hours, and the rollout of a key enterprise risk management component was accelerated from 36 to 9 months. GFT's solution empowered the bank with faster model deployment, improved data governance, and a strong foundation for AI innovation.