Case Study: ABANCA achieves stronger risk analysis, compliance, and increased profitability with Informatica

ABANCA Boosts Profitability with Enhanced Risk Analysis and Compliance

ABANCA, a top-ten Spanish bank with over 6,000 employees and 700 branches, needed stronger data governance to meet Basel (BCBS 239) risk-reporting requirements. Decision-makers and data scientists struggled to find trusted data, understand business terms, trace lineage, and identify data owners, which hindered risk analysis, compliance, and lending decisions.

Working with DataSpurs, ABANCA deployed Informatica Axon, Enterprise Data Catalog and PowerCenter to build a centralized business glossary (~2,000 terms), automatically catalog 600,000+ assets, and provide graphical lineage and BI scorecards. The solution increased transparency, cut data-preparation time, improved compliance and reporting, empowered data owners and analysts, and enabled better lending decisions that boosted profitability.

Abanca

Manuel Ferro Novoa

Chief Data Officer