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nCino

Enterprise Knowledge Search · Security and Compliance

nCino needed to combine 13 years of banking data and trillions in loan history into compliant, domain-driven banking AI while keeping sensitive financial information under tight control and avoiding generic models that cannot replicate financial-services expertise.

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Solution

nCino built its banking AI on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform running entirely inside AWS, keeping 13 years of banking data and trillions in loan history under a single cloud ecosystem to reduce complexity and strengthen compliance. Unity Catalog governs access to sensitive financial data across the platform, while AI/BI Genie democratizes natural-language access to insights for executives, analysts, and relationship managers — letting domain experts query the same governed data foundation that powers nCino's banking AI without leaving the regulated environment.

Data flow

13 years of nCino banking data and trillions in loan history are kept on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform running entirely inside AWS, governed end-to-end by Unity Catalog. Domain-driven AI solutions are built on top of this foundation, and AI/BI Genie surfaces insights to executives, analysts, and relationship managers in natural language without leaving the governed single-cloud environment.

Solution architecture

3 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Hosts 13 years of nCino banking data and trillions in loan history as the foundation for domain-driven banking AI
  2. Serving
    • Databricks AI/BI Genie Natural-language insight access for executives, analysts, and relationship managers
  3. Governance
    • Unity Catalog Access governance for sensitive financial data inside the single-cloud AWS footprint

Architecture clues

  • 13 years of banking data and trillions in loan history
  • AI/BI Genie for natural-language access
  • Single-cloud architecture on AWS for compliance simplicity
  • Unity Catalog governing sensitive financial data

Evidence from the source

With Unity Catalog governing access and AI/BI Genie democratizing insights, executives, analysts and relationship managers all benefit from domain-driven AI solutions that no generic model can replicate.
nCino transforms financial services by combining 13 years of banking data and trillions in loan history with Databricks on AWS.

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