# Data centres and Finance: banking, insurance, markets

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/data-centres-and-finance-banking-insurance-markets/

[Data centres](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_data_centres/) (energy) and [Finance: banking, insurance, markets](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/finance/) (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)

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