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Eric Bierry CEO at Sopra Banking Software

Four Ways Data Will Define Banks’ Digital Trajectories

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Gary Singh President at Zeta Services Inc

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Akshaya Chandra Head of Innovation, Technopreneur at Tata Consultancy Services

Robots in Care: a fiction or the future

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Dirk Labuschagne Chief Information Security Officer at Direct Transact

Financial Shutdown Risk Mitigation

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Eric Bierry

Eric Bierry CEO at Sopra Banking Software

Four Ways Data Will Define Banks’ Digital Trajectories

Digital transformation has become a top priority for banks in recent years as they've looked to capitalize on new streams of revenue, customer experiences and market expansion. As part of this, over 90% of banks have started the process of moving away from legacy systems to more flexible and modern cloud-based infrastructures. With these projects ...

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Gary Singh

Gary Singh President at Zeta Services Inc

Unraveling the COBOL Conundrum

Despite the proliferation of digital banking apps, the banking industry still runs almost half its systems on a 1950s programming language, which makes it difficult for financial institutions to innovate quickly. Beyond being old and rigid, COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) carries overlooked risks, making it a potentially unacknowledged c...

/payments /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Akshaya Chandra

Akshaya Chandra Head of Innovation, Technopreneur at Tata Consultancy Services

Robots in Care: a fiction or the future

For most millennials and GenZs, one of the wow moments of the big screen will always be heartfelt on-screen meeting between C-3PO and R2-D2. Qui-Gon brings Artoo to Anakin’s house, and he and Threepio hit it off immediately. Wind forwards to 2020s when AI has been the most talked about subject across the spectrum – would a similar C-3PO or R2-D2 i...

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Dirk Labuschagne

Dirk Labuschagne Chief Information Security Officer at Direct Transact

Financial Shutdown Risk Mitigation

Six cybersecurity tactics for financial services to prevent disaster Anyone who has seen the apocalyptic cybercrime thriller Leave the World Behind will know just how terrifying a nationwide digital shutdown could be. Some shocking recent cybercrime statistics add plausibility to the risks posed by cybercrime: South Africa has the fifth worst cy...

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Raktim Singh

Raktim Singh Senior Industry Principal at Infosys

Industry cloud platforms: The future of Cloud

Industry cloud platforms (ICP), distinct from general-purpose cloud platforms, are tailored to meet the unique needs of various sectors. Industry clouds are sets of cloud services, integration fabrics, products, and tools that offer sector-specific capabilities while being natively upgraded for cloud platforms and delivered at scale. Industry cl...

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Eric Bierry

Eric Bierry CEO at Sopra Banking Software

Four Ways Data Will Define Banks’ Digital Trajectories

Gary Singh

Gary Singh President at Zeta Services Inc

Unraveling the COBOL Conundrum

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Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

Technology has long been transforming the capital markets industry, but the tides are changing for what is considered success. Now more than ever, firms need to prioritise operational resilience.  Technological advances are indisputably reshaping how firms in the capital markets operate, however, as the reliance on technology grows, so does the impact of glitches and outages when they occur. Take the CrowdStrike global outage, for example, which caused an estimated $1.15BN and $140M in financial losses for the banking and financial sectors respectively.  The consecutive outages expose the fragility of technical infrastructure and underscore a need for better operational resilience across the capital markets. It also reiterates the importance of preparing for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), implementing uniform operational resilience rules for financial entities throughout Europe, and its equivalents elsewhere.  This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with CJC, explores:  The challenges in the capital markets industry;  How institutions can address these challenges;  Ensuring future resilience by bridging the skills gap;  Real-world case studies;  And more. 

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Impact Study

Microservices Architecture: Future-Proofing Payments Technology

It is high time for banks to move away from legacy thinking and embrace modernisation to remain competitive in the industry.  Financial institutions have long been threatened by innovative, tech-savvy fintech firms that do not have to maintain decades-old back-office systems. Core banking systems within banks have evolved, but with additional pressure from incoming regulation and subsequent reporting, progression and modernisation has not kept pace with industry developments.  In the US alone, the real-time payments market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 31% until 2030. An institution’s success in scaling their payment processing in response to this shift will rest heavily on how their systems are set up.  Cloud-native payments processing is the most viable option to keep pace with innovation demand and competition; enabling banks to build upon flexibility, at low cost and risk. These enablers also make cloud infrastructure – both public and private – attractive for banks that have struggled to streamline, maintain and upgrade their legacy infrastructures.  This Finextra research paper, produced in association with Diebold Nixdorf, explores the opportunities of microservices architecture. It discusses:  Then & Now: Monolithic vs. microservices architecture  Overcoming microservice challenges  The benefits of a micro-approach  Real-world examples and cases studies  And more.    Click here to join the Finextra webinar, hosted in association with Diebold Nixdorf, to watch as our panel of iindustry experts explore the benefits of microservices architecture, and what needs to be done to ensure migrations are streamlined.

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Survey

Payments Modernisation: The Big Survey 2024

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Big Survey. Our annual report, surveying 350 senior bankers across the globe, offers a unique vantage point on the ever-evolving landscape of payments modernisation. Over the years, we’ve uncovered fresh developments and enduring challenges alike, painting a detailed picture of the industry’s trajectory. As we navigate 2024, the financial services sector is in the midst of profound transformation. Our latest insights highlight the critical need to modernise payment systems swiftly and effectively, driven by rising customer expectations and stringent regulatory demands.  Download our 2024 survey, produced in association with Volante, to learn about:  The current state of capabilities  Why payments architecture is more flexible than ever before  Financial institutions’ budgets and spending priorities  The global drive towards real-time and cross-border  And much more. 

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FinextraTV

Core Banking Transformation: Enabling Future Growth at a Systemic Bank

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Mick Fennell, Business Line Director - Payments, Temenos and Serge Munten, Head of Transformation, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg discuss their digital transformation project and the obstacles the bank faced when modernising core banking and payments capabilities. Scoping out the project, it is explored how BIL decided to completely revisit their IT landscape to enable the bank to manage higher transaction volumes, keep up with changing regulations and drive future growth.

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

What is hybrid cloud?

Hybrid cloud is a computer programming architecture used by IT teams to reap the benefits of both the private and public hosting environments. These work in tandem to run an organisation’s workload and applications. Uses of hybrid cloud An example of a firm within the financial services industry which might find use for the hybrid cloud environm...

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Understanding SaaS

Software-as-a-service, often contracted to ‘SaaS’, benefits consumers and businesses around the world daily. As one of the three constituents of cloud computing – infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) being the other two – SaaS, delivers software and applications over the internet, via a subscription model. This, in ...

Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

ERP migrations and the pitfalls of decayed bank master data

In a data-rich world, financial institutions are already struggling with fractured bank master data. Add on top of that data decay and the drive towards migration as many ERP (enterprise resource planning) providers move towards the end-of-life dates for their traditional ERP systems, migration is becoming a herculean task. In the face of a loomin...