Hasura's metadata-based approach provides an elegant solution for financial institutions to address data governance challenges, ensuring security, compliance, and transparency while making their enterprise more AI-ready. By automatically generating APIs from data sources and storing configuration in structured metadata, Hasura simplifies governance by providing a single source of truth and aligning everyone on what's secure and compliant. This approach also enables faster experimentation and model development with fine-grained permissions for sensitive data, reducing friction and risk associated with traditional data governance methods. With its extensibility, Hasura can convert metadata between different databases, making it easier to manage transitions and reduce duplication of effort. The tool also offers practical use cases such as centralized security and compliance, cross-department data collaboration, real-time policy enforcement, risk management, and audit-ready reporting, ultimately transforming the way financial institutions approach data governance and unlocking new value in their data-driven initiatives.