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Company announcement/cloud

Backbase utilises Microsoft Cloud to offer integrated financial services cloud stack

Backbase, the global Engagement Banking Platform provider, today announced its global collaboration with Microsoft to help financial institutions move into the Engagement Banking Era with the first fully integrated financial services cloud stack. The collaboration, which sees Backbase’s Engagement Banking Platform serving in the engagement layer within Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, helps financial institutions re-architect banking around their customers and accelerate their digital transformation.

10 November 2021

News/cloud

ASB to shift banking applications to Microsoft Azure

ASB has selected Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud provider, becoming an anchor tenant for the tech firm's New Zealand data centres.

09 November 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

Microsoft and EY report on the biodiversity imperative in financial services

The financial sector risks inflicting significant damage on itself and companies across the world if it fails to use its “great power” to stop actions that harm the planet, a new report by EY, Microsoft and Earth Knowledge has said.

13 October 2021

News/cloud

BNY Mellon moves wire payments into Microsoft Azure

BNY Mellon has migrated infrastructure supporting wire payments into the cloud with Microsoft Azure.

13 October 2021

News/cloud

Microsoft rolls out financial services cloud

Microsoft is making its financial services-specific cloud offering generally available from next month, with Virgin Money UK on board as an early user.

05 October 2021

News/cloud

Wells Fargo selects Microsoft and Google as public Cloud providers

Wells Fargo has signed major Cloud deals with Microsoft and Google as part of an overhaul of its digitial infrastructure.

16 September 2021

Company announcement/people

KPMG and Microsoft launch learning platform

KPMG has launched a digital platform and portfolio of services to help businesses respond to rapid technological disruption and new ways of working. With a focus on enabling productivity improvement, KPMG Learning Services integrates learning into the everyday flow of work, accelerates the upskilling process, and allows organizations to offer relevant resources and training at the time of need.

19 August 2021

News/cloud

SAP jumps aboard IBM Cloud for Financial Services.

German software giant SAP is onboarding two of its finance and data management solutions to IBM Cloud for Financial Services.

30 July 2021

News/cloud

CIBC inks Microsoft Azure deal

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has agreed a multi-year deal to use Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud platform.

12 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

Microsoft submits comments to SEC on climate change disclosure

We believe the world needs a bold ambition and a broad vision for the future of carbon accounting and the SEC has a vital role to play.

16 June 2021

Company announcement/security

Worldline teams up with Microsoft to futureproof online businesses against fraud

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and number 4 worldwide, today announced it has partnered with Microsoft to integrate Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection into Worldline’s digital commerce payments suite.

10 June 2021