Group Data & AI·Alliance Bank

One platform for the Group's AI,
from use case to value.

Take a use case in, build it on Vertex AI over the Group lakehouse, have Model Risk Management validate it independently, deploy it in Google Cloud Malaysia, and reuse it across business units through the marketplace, with the value it returns tracked to the ringgit.

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5.2M inference calls served from Google Cloud Malaysia in the last 30 days.

One platform

The whole AI lifecycle, on the Group lakehouse

Without a platform, a model moves between tools, teams and spreadsheets on its way to production, and what it returned is hard to show. The Alliance AI platform runs every stage in one place, so a use case moves from request to validated, in-region, measured production without changing hands.

Data residency by construction

Customer data stays in Malaysia

Residency is not a clause appended to an outsourcing assessment. It is how the platform is built: the lakehouse, the training and the inference all run in Google Cloud Malaysia, and the paths that would take customer data out are closed.

The Group lakehouse, Vertex AI and Gemini on Vertex AI sit inside Google Cloud Malaysia. The Singapore build region sends code in but receives no customer data, and external AI APIs receive no customer data in prompts.GOOGLE CLOUD MALAYSIAProduction workloads and customer dataGroup lakehouseBigQuery · Dataplex lineage and qualityVertex AIPipelines · registry · endpointsGemini on Vertex AIServed in-region · grounded on Bank dataEgress-controlled · customer data stays in-regionSingapore regionbuild, test, non-sensitive pilotscode in · no customer data outExternal AI APIspublic GenAI endpointsno customer data in prompts
  • Production and customer data stay in Google Cloud Malaysia
  • Singapore is for platform build, testing and non-sensitive pilot data only
  • No customer data in prompts; Gemini is served on Vertex AI in-region
  • Every access to customer data is purpose-bound, attributable and logged

Build, validate, reuse

From notebook to Group asset, with the second line in the loop

Any team with a governed data product and a Vertex AI project can build here. Nothing reaches production without independent validation by Model Risk Management, and once live, what other units consume is charged back to them.

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Build on Vertex AI

Workbench and pipelines over the Group lakehouse, with masked data products pre-mounted and experiments tracked.

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Package and document

Model card, intended use, limitations, lineage and risk tier, captured once in the wizard rather than in a document.

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Independent validation

Model Risk Management validates by tier: performance, fairness on credit decisions, explainability, and a named approver.

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Live and reusable

Deployed to Google Cloud Malaysia and listed in the Group catalogue. The owner keeps accountability; other BUs get reuse.

And then it pays its way

Reuse is metered and charged back to the consuming business unit, in MYR

Every call, run and query is attributed to a cost centre. Each BU works inside a compute budget, and the showback tells Group Finance which assets earn their running cost and which do not. No BU has to raise an internal invoice to another.

The use-case pipeline

Reuse first, then build what is worth building

Every request enters the same pipeline. It is matched against what already exists, prioritised on value and data readiness, and tracked after go-live against the business case that justified it.

  1. 012 in stage

    A use case is raised

    A business unit states the decision it wants to improve, the owner accountable for the value, and the data it thinks it needs.

    Use-case pipeline
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    Reuse is checked first

    The request is matched against the catalogue before a line is written. Often a validated model or data product already covers most of it.

    Catalogue
  3. 034 in stage

    Prioritised on value

    The business case, data readiness and risk tier are weighed side by side, and the AI Centre of Excellence sets the build order.

    Pipeline
  4. 043 in stage

    Built and validated

    Built on Vertex AI over the lakehouse, then independently validated by Model Risk Management before anyone relies on it.

    Operating model
  5. 053 in stage

    Live, with value tracked

    Once live, usage, drift and realised value are measured against the business case, telling the Group what to scale, fix or retire.

    What is live
  6. The loop closes

    A catalogue tells you what exists. The pipeline tells the Group what to build next, and the value record proves whether the last decision was right.

From SAS to the lakehouse

The move off SAS is already running on the platform

Retiring SAS is not a separate programme with its own tools. The rebuilt models go through the same build, validation and registry path as everything else, and their owners work on the same lakehouse as the rest of the Group.

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SAS models rebuilt in Python

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SAS users moved to the lakehouse

On SASOn the lakehouse
DataExtracts copied from the warehouse onto SAS servers and analyst desktopsOne governed lakehouse in BigQuery, with Dataplex lineage and quality checks
CodeSAS programs in personal folders, rerun by hand each month-endPython on Vertex AI Pipelines, versioned, scheduled and reproducible
RecordModel documentation in a spreadsheet, validation evidence in emailModel registry, model card and validation record in one place, audit-ready

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