Béla Vér Founder and CEO at ApPello
“A couple of clicks, drag a slider here and there, a quick ID check, attach a few docs and bingo, the money arrives!” – this is what users long for. So what can a bank do to satisfy these desires while ensuring that its deposit account holders sleep soundly at night, too? Winning over and retaining a digitally-literate generation has placed yet m...
26 October 2020 /retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Retired Member
Public cloud is one of the biggest buzzwords in payments right now. While a few years ago financial institutions and big banks were hesitant to embrace cloud technology – if we had even mentioned putting core payment applications in the cloud five years ago, we would have been met with utter incredulity – they are now much more likely to do so. It...
21 October 2020 /retail /cloud Cloud Banking out of the Box
Farah Miller CEO at Helixtap Technologies
In August, the S&P Dow Jones Indices, which monitors the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones, announced Exxon Mobil (XOM), Pfizer (PFE), and Raytheon (RTN) were getting the boot before the market opened on August 31. The three companies that replaced these historical titans were Salesforce (CRM), Amgen (AMGN) and Honeywell International (H...
07 October 2020 /cloud /markets Trends in Financial Services
Paul Farrington
From the rising importance of digital transformation, we have seen a shift in application security debt within the financial services industry. Although financial organisations tend to have the reputation of having some of the most mature overall cybersecurity practices, and a willingness to invest in modern solutions to protect their data and net...
30 September 2020 /security /cloud
According to research by Finastra and Efma, banks saw digital transformation as their most pressing issue for the future. 81 percent listed the move to digital as their biggest priority for the next one to three years, while 66 percent listed adopting new technologies as their next big project. Around 56 percent listed innovation as where they ne...
25 September 2020 /security /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to drive focus for financial institutions onto systems resilience and operations. Once cast in a role of planning for different worst case scenarios, CIOs have been tasked to help banks continue to service customers in the new ‘stay-at-home’ era, focusing on delivering self-service systems, modernising and enabling...
24 September 2020 /security /cloud Financial Services Regulation
Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3
Any chief technology officer (CTO), in any financial institution big or small will tell you that the challenges in payment processing are the same. After all, a payment is a payment and people want them to be fast, really fast. Speeding up payment processing is one thing but being able to handle the complete, end to end payments journey from first ...
23 September 2020 /payments /cloud Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Legacy IT challenges The challenges of bridging old and new IT systems have been demonstrated recently by banking outages at some of the leading retail banks. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the necessity for banks to switch to a fully digitalised customer experience, as a way of adapting to the new normal of working from hom...
08 September 2020 /retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
When I need to take a break from being immersed in the business of banking, I like to watch movies. And since the pandemic lockdown, I’ve watched quite a few. Along the way I’ve come to realize that life does indeed imitate art, sometimes in surprising ways. In this blog I’ll take a light-hearted look at drawing parallels between famous movie quot...
03 September 2020 /retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Ten years ago, when cloud-native apps started appearing, the on-prem versus cloud discussion was a legitimate debate. Now, the new question is: which cloud technology will best serve the purposes of your business? How can enterprises hedge the risk of becoming dependent on one cloud provider? The cloud journey so far A decade ago when cloud techno...
27 August 2020 /security /cloud Capital Markets Technology
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