DevOps - Long Reads, News, Articles & Research: Finextra

The Future of Digital Banking in North America: Building the experience of finance

This is an excerpt from Finextra’s report, 'The Future of Digital Banking North America 2023'. As we delve deeper into the realm of digitised financial services, it is becoming clear that the line between physical and digital experiences are becoming increasingly blurred. This is due in no small part to the experiential applications, products, and ...

26 October 2022 /devops

The Future of Digital Banking in the UK: What comes after digital transformation?

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

The Future of Digital Banking in the UK: What comes after digital transformation?

This is an excerpt from Finextra’s report, 'The Future of Digital Banking in the UK 2022'. Technology is not a silver bullet for digital transformation. Investing in technology is of paramount importance but placing too much importance on the performance of technology in digital transformation will become a barrier to success. Digital transformat...

08 August 2022 /devops

Embrace change and be the bank your customer needs

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Embrace change and be the bank your customer needs

This is an excerpt from Finextra’s report, 'The Future of Digital Banking in the UK 2022'. Change projects can be intimidating, but there is a way to manage the journey that will help reduce costs, as well as over-dependence on legacy banking platforms and antiquated technology. For many big banks, adopting a change strategy is an intimidating p...

21 July 2022 /devops

The trends transforming today's digital banking

Vasile Valcov Chief Commercial Officer at Salt Edge

The trends transforming today's digital banking

This is an excerpt from Finextra’s report, 'The Future of Digital Banking in the UK 2022'. Close your eyes for a second. Imagine you’ve just looped into the future and are now getting ready to order something online. You’re scrolling through websites, looking for the perfect match between price and quality. All of the sudden, you get a notificat...

18 July 2022 /devops

Creating a boundaryless experience: Maximising value for all stakeholders

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Creating a boundaryless experience: Maximising value for all stakeholders

For too long, financial players have focused on simply selling better products or services than their competitors. This approach fails to acknowledge the unique and multifarious needs of individual customers. With the xTech revolution and the emergence of embedded finance, boundaries between industries – and sometimes competitors – are beginning to...

21 June 2022 /devops

5 key tech priorities for fintech leaders in 2022

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5 key tech priorities for fintech leaders in 2022

Technology in modern financial services can be a complex subject. This is what business leaders should focus on to build a winning tech strategy. Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change. Wh...

20 April 2022 /devops

Multicloud strategy guide: one cloud good, two clouds better?

Paige McNamee

Multicloud strategy guide: one cloud good, two clouds better?

Cloud-based computing is an integral element to any forward-looking digital transformation strategy for financial institutions. This article will explore the key attributes of multicloud adoption being undertaken by many financial institutions, and features commentary from Commerzbank, Wells Fargo, and McKinsey. Multicloud strategy is now increasi...

21 March 2022 /devops

From DevOps to NoOps: Are engineers’ jobs in jeopardy?

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

From DevOps to NoOps: Are engineers’ jobs in jeopardy?

In 2018, Microsoft Israel’s chief scientist, Tomer Simon, wrote an article titled, ‘Stop DevOps Before Someone Gets Hurt’. In it, he urged engineers to bypass DevOps and jump straight into ‘NoOps’. Irrespective of the merits of this approach, the most illuminating part of Simon’s recommendation is to figure the DevOps environment as a continuum – ...

14 March 2022 /devops

Chaos engineering: The art of failing gracefully

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Chaos engineering: The art of failing gracefully

A foray into the world of DevOps would be incomplete without a pitstop at chaos engineering, or – as Bola Rotibi, research director, software development and delivery, CCS Insight, calls it – the art of failing gracefully. So, what is it, how does it work, and why should financial institutions care about this apocalyptic-sounding, computer enginee...

10 February 2022 /devops

Lessons from A Space Odyssey: How to combat computer bugs

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Lessons from A Space Odyssey: How to combat computer bugs

Perhaps the most famous instance of a software bug in pop culture is Arthur C. Clarke’s HAL 9000, and its attempt to thwart Discovery One’s mission, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eventually, it is uncovered that the malevolent onboard computer malfunctioned because it was programmed against two opposing objectives: to divulge all its information, and ...

02 February 2022 /devops

Should we stop trying to make Open Banking happen when it’s not going to happen?

Níamh Curran

Should we stop trying to make Open Banking happen when it’s not going to happen?

Comments from Starling Bank’s Anne Boden at a House of Commons Treasury Select Committee at the end of 2021 struck a painful chord with several fintech founders. During an oral evidence session for the Future of Financial Services inquiry, Boden expressed her opinion that “Open Banking has not been successful.” This pronouncement of the failure of...

21 January 2022 /devops

Open Banking year four: Beyond the CMA9 and towards Open Finance

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Open Banking year four: Beyond the CMA9 and towards Open Finance

To mark the launch of the UK’s Open Banking initiative on 13 January 2018, Finextra typically reviews the progress of the experiment on this day each year. Over the past four years, the CMA9 - Lloyds, Barclays, Nationwide, RBS, Santander, Danske Bank, HSBC, Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland - have transformed data structures and security archi...

13 January 2022 /devops

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