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Elevating AI Model Documentation for watsonx Customers

At Vectice, we enable financial institutions to confidently scale AI by automating model development and validation documentation plus metadata management throughout the AI lifecycle. Our integration with IBM watsonx delivers a seamless, end-to-end solution that streamlines compliance with frameworks like SR 11-7 and SS1/23, ensuring governance while accelerating AI innovation.
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How Vectice Strengthens watsonx.governance for Financial Institutions

IBM watsonx provides a strong AI governance foundation, ensuring compliance, transparency, and operational oversight. Vectice complements watsonx by:

• Automating AI Documentation: Ensuring Model Development Documents (MDDs) and Model Validation Documents (MVDs) are automatically generated and audit-ready.
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• ‍Enriching Metadata Integration: Capturing granular model metadata across the AI lifecycle, enhancing watsonx’s traceability capabilities.
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• ‍Simplifying Evidence Gathering and Ensuring Audit Readiness: Streamlining compliance documentation to align with SR 11-7, SS1/23, and EU AI Act requirements while maintaining a clear audit trail. Vectice captures and organizes critical evidence, including code, model, and dataset lineage, testing outcomes, and version history, ensuring transparency and traceability throughout the AI lifecycle.
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• ‍Expanding Cross-Platform Governance Support: Allowing metadata from various AI development environments (e.g. IBM Watson Studio, Jupyter Notebooks, Databricks, SageMaker) to integrate seamlessly with watsonx.governance.

Together, Vectice and watsonx empower financial institutions to scale AI confidently, ensuring seamless governance, robust compliance, and efficient risk management.

Vectice + watsonx in Action: Key Use Cases

‍1. Automating AI Model Documentation at a Global Bank

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A leading European bank needed to comply with evolving regulatory requirements but struggled with slow, manual documentation. By leveraging Vectice:

• The bank automated model documentation with the first draft produced in minutes.
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• Model metadata was seamlessly captured and structured into MDDs and MVDs aligned with regulatory guidelines.
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• Compliance teams gained instant visibility into model development, reducing audit preparation time by 90%.

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‍2. Streamlining AI Governance for a US-Based Financial Services Firm

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A top 10 US financial institution faced difficulties centralizing governance for AI models developed across multiple platforms. With Vectice and watsonx.governance integration:

• MDD and MVD reports were automatically uploaded to watsonx.governance, ensuring AI compliance at scale.
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• Regulatory reporting was streamlined by eliminating manual documentation processes.
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• The firm improved audit readiness, reducing compliance review cycles by 50%.

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3. Enhancing AI Model Traceability for a Global Investment Firm

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A global investment bank needed better version control and lineage tracking for AI models deployed in production. By integrating Vectice with watsonx.governance:

• Model metadata, including lineage, contributors, and versioning, was captured and updated in real-time.
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• AI models across various notebook environments and AI platforms were seamlessly documented.
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• The firm reduced model validation reviews and back and forth between teams, improving first line and second line teams efficiency by 25%.
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‍Why Vectice and IBM watsonx are Better Together

‍With the IBM watsonx.governance framework plus Vectice the Regulatory MLOps platform, IBM customers get: 

• Automated documentation: Freeing teams from manual documentation tasks.
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• ‍Faster model approvals: Reducing the time to market for AI/ML projects.
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• ‍Improved audit readiness: Centralizing documentation and metadata, eliminating compliance gaps.

With watsonx’s robust governance features and Vectice’s automation-driven documentation, financial institutions can scale AI with confidence.

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Get Started with Vectice and IBM watsonx

AI governance should be an enabler, not a bottleneck. Vectice and IBM watsonx provide financial institutions with an integrated solution to automate compliance, enhance governance, and accelerate AI adoption.

Want to learn more? Request a demo today and discover how Vectice can transform your AI governance strategy. Click here to schedule your demo.