Latest Cloud News: Finextra Research

US Treasury launches cloud services steering committee

The dominance of a handful of cloud service providers in the financial sector raises concerns about operational resilience and the bargaining power vendors have in negotiations with smaller FS players, according to a US Department of the Treasury report.

09 February 2023

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BBVA ports investment banking platform to AWS

BBVA is moving its complex investment banking operations to Amazon Web Services.

06 February 2023

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NextGen Nordics 2023: Back and better than ever

Finextra will be back in Stockholm to bring the new world of Nordic banking to life for the NextGen Nordics 2023 conference on the 25th of April.

03 February 2023

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Stripe scores major Amazon deal

Stripe has become a strategic payments partner for Amazon in the US, Europe, and Canada, processing a "significant" portion of the tech giant's total payments volume across its businesses, including Prime, Audible, Kindle, Amazon Pay, Buy With Prime, and more.

23 January 2023

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Nexi taps IBM to modernise core payment processing

European paytech, Nexi, has selected IBM to upgrade its core infrastructure to IBM z16.

17 January 2023

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BNP Paribas invests in AccessFintech

BNP Paribas is the latest banking giant to invest in AccessFintech, joining a previously announced Series C funding round for the capital markets specialist.

10 January 2023

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Finextra's top impact study reports of 2022

With 2022 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

28 December 2022

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Finextra's year in review

With 2022 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2022

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Financial Cloud Summit sneak peek: headline speakers announced

Finextra will be hosting its inaugural Financial Cloud Summit conference on 2nd March 2023 in-person at King's Place in London.

23 December 2022

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MSCI taps Microsoft Azure for investment intelligence platform

Investment analysis and index firm MSCI has unveiled an integrated platform built on Microsoft Azure to give investors access to content across its portfolio of products.

19 December 2022

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Banque de France, HSBC, IBM test interoperability of wholesale CBDC

Following experiments demonstrating that DLT can be used with existing networks to complete CBDC financial transactions in real-time, Banque de France, HSBC and IBM have published a paper exploring their key findings.

16 December 2022

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Opensee raises EUR11m for real-time data analytics platform

Opensee, the Paris-based platform that helps business users at financial institutions analyse granular data in real time, has raised EUR11 million in a Series A funding round led by Omnes Capital.

15 December 2022

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