Latest Cloud News: Finextra Research

How insurers can leverage the cloud to focus on innovation

Insurance providers must leverage the cloud to offer a personalised experience to their customers, but also ensure that operational agility and innovation are a priority.

20 September 2019

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With AI and cloud, legacy systems no longer impede real-time intraday liquidity

The BCBS28 monitoring requirement asks banks to gather, process and report on a significant amount of data on a monthly basis. Finextra spoke to industry experts Richard Morris, product manager, cash and liquidity management at SmartStream; Henrik Lang, head of global liquidity, global transaction services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Daniel Moon, a risk consultant with over 10 years of liquidity risk experience about how technology can prevent legacy systems from impeding the progress of real-time intraday liquidity.

20 September 2019

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Deutsche Börse signs cloud deal with Google

Deutsche Börse has inked a deal with Google that will see the German exchange operator migrate "material workloads" to the public cloud.

18 September 2019

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Why financial institutions are modernising on cloud

For financial institutions (FIs) leveraging the cloud, the earliest adoption was often the high-performance computing grid to support complex modelling. Gone were the days when limited capacity of on-premises grids meant that quants or actuaries had to wait for the compute resources they needed to run their models: across workloads, the cloud allows FIs to immediately scale up compute resources at peak times and scale down when demand dipped, paying only for what they use.

17 September 2019

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Building the future of capital markets with the cloud

The cloud has been a catalyst for accelerated development in capital markets. Firms are now using the cloud to become more agile and to increase the pace of innovation delivered to end users.

17 September 2019

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Better connecting customers to their bank with the cloud

In this age of the customer when banks are leveraging the cloud to reduce costs, innovate faster, minimise risks and digitise mission-critical services, it’s become clear that technology drives change at a ground-breaking rate.

17 September 2019

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AI and cloud remove barriers to entry for real-time intraday liquidity

Financial institutions must actively manage their intraday liquidity but getting to this point continues to be a challenge, as banks are required to capture the information they need in real-time while at the same time meeting increased regulatory reporting obligations.

13 September 2019

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ABN Amro wrangles stake in Trifacta

ABN Amro's Digital Impact Fund has acquired a stake in US data wrangling outfit Trifacta.

13 September 2019

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Goldman Sachs names AWS exec Argenti tech chief

Goldman Sachs has hired Amazon Web Services executive Marco Argenti to replace departing co-chief information officer Elisha Wiesel, according to the Financial Times.

12 September 2019

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Bloomberg takes cloud-based real-time data global

Bloomberg is making its B-Pipe real-time market data feed available to clients around the world through Amazon Web Services (AWS).

12 September 2019

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Temenos signs new Scottish neobank Alba

New Scottish SME challenger bank Alba is to run its business on Temenos’ packaged cloud-native software, a model bank package that has been taken up by other neobanks across the world, including Varo Money, Praxia, Volt Bank, Judo Bank and Grasshopper Bank

12 September 2019

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What are the benefits of being born in the cloud?

An increasing number of challenger banks, neobanks and digital offshoots are being born in the cloud and the technology is now being used by traditional banks and new players alike for all IT needs. Banks that are born in the cloud are at an advantage because legacy players that are in the process of migrating to the cloud are struggling with application modernisation, data centralisation and security.

03 September 2019

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