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Data centres and Finance: banking, insurance, markets

Finance: banking, insurance, markets depends on data centres.

Data centres (energy) and Finance: banking, insurance, markets (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Data centres → Finance: banking, insurance, markets

9 of the enterprise types in Finance: banking, insurance, markets depend on data centres; for the most dependent, it rates 5 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 9 enterprise types depend on it
  • 5 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Central banks and financial regulators: settlement systems (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Payment system operators and card networks: switching centres (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Exchanges, clearing houses and depositories: trading systems (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Core banking and financial software vendors: hosting (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Credit bureaus, rating agencies and market-data providers: data hosting (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Reinsurers: modelling compute (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Commercial banks: IT systems (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Fintech payment and investment apps: app backends (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Investment banks and brokers: trading systems (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.