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title: "Data Governance Built for AI, Risk & Compliance in Finance | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/solutions/industries/financial-services/"
description: "Turn governance into a business advantage. Discover how leading financial institutions are unifying risk, compliance, and AI with Atlan."
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

Explore Atlan for Financial Services. **From Control to Catalyst: Navigating Risk, Compliance and Innovation Through Data Governance.** Unify your data-to-decision value chain across regulatory reporting, risk analytics, client intelligence, and emerging AI initiatives.

[Talk to an Expert](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-an-expert/)

Customers shown: Nasdaq, Tide, Plaid, Porto Seguro, North American Bancard, Edenred.

## The Data Governance Library: Simplifying Financial Sector Complexity

- **1-Pager: Why Your BCBS 239 Struggles Are Really Lineage Problems** - Regulators expect answers. Learn why the key to BCBS 239 "isn't more policy", it's better lineage. [Download](https://atlan.com/downloads/bcbs-239-lineage-strategy/)
- **Downloadable Checklist: Governance Migration Readiness Checklist** - Migration success starts before the move. Use this checklist to align, automate, and avoid shelfware. [Get checklist](https://atlan.com/downloads/data-governance-migration-readiness-checklist/)
- **Blog: Why your current data governance approach may be your biggest liability** - Governance built for the last decade won't survive the next. Learn how leading financial institutions are fixing it. [Read](https://atlan.com/know/finserv/legacy-data-governance-ai-barrier/)

## Designed for the Humans and Systems That Power Financial Services

1. **Automate the burdens that slow teams down** - Classify, clean, and enrich metadata at scale with rule-based Playbooks and AI-driven context.
2. **Move from static documents to real-time risk visibility** - Connect policies to data for live compliance coverage, alerts, and audit-ready transparency.
3. **Bring control and collaboration into the flow of work** - Trigger approvals for data use and model access - automated, tracked, and embedded in daily tools.
4. **Govern the future, not just the familiar** - Use open APIs to govern complex pipelines, AI models, and in-house platforms - no vendor lock-in.
5. **Bring clarity to complex data chains** - Trace lineage across systems to see where data comes from, how it's used, and what's impacted.

Product tour: [https://atlan.com/context-layer-demo/](https://atlan.com/context-layer-demo/)

## Before the Next Audit or AI Rollout - Fix the Foundation

[Let's Talk About Your Foundation](https://atlan.com/forms/contact-an-expert/)

## What It Takes to Govern the World's Most Sensitive Data and the Teams Making It Happen

- **Nasdaq** - Inside NASDAQ's Data Governance Playbook - and Why They Picked Atlan. [Watch video](https://atlan.com/why-nasdaq-chose-atlan-as-its-data-governance-partner/)
- **Porto** - 1M+ Assets, 40% Time Saved: How Porto's Small Team Is Scaling Governance Fast. [Story](https://atlan.com/customers/porto-data-catalog/)
- **Tide** - From 50 Days to Hours: How Tide Automated GDPR Compliance at Scale. [Story](https://atlan.com/customers/tide-gdpr-automated-privacy/)
- **North** - Unlocking $1.4M Efficiency Gains: North's Blueprint for Trusted, Self-Serve Analytics. [Story](https://atlan.com/customers/north-snowflake-sigma-governance/)