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Steven Rackham

Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp

From compliance to innovation: the acceleration of DX in FS

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...

/security /cloud Financial Services Regulation

Laura Francis

Laura Francis Head of Brand and Marketing at Form3

Future-proofing your payments infrastructure

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 ...

/payments /cloud Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Béla Vér

Béla Vér Founder and CEO at ApPello

Overcoming legacy issues in banking to achieve faster results

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...

/retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Andrew Beatty

Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS

Oscar-worthy banking claims

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...

/retail /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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Retired Member 

What does a successful enterprise cloud solution look like?

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...

/security /cloud Capital Markets Technology

Jonathan Shanks

Jonathan Shanks CEO and co-Founder at Appvia

Don’t let spiralling cloud costs disrupt your fintech project

The fintech industry as we know it wouldn’t exist without the cloud. No financial app, comparison website or any of the other numerous innovations we’ve seen emerge from the last decade would be possible without it. Given its intrinsic value to fintechs, it is perhaps surprising that very few are using the most cost effective solution. Millions in...

/cloud /devops Innovation in Financial Services

Lyndon Hedderly

Lyndon Hedderly Director, Customer Solutions at Confluent

What can financial services learn from Big Tech? Adopt a similar approach to data architecture

Many tech stocks continue their meteoric rise, despite the worsening economic downturn. On Wednesday this week Apple became Wall Street's first $2tn company. In my last Finextra article I mentioned that Apple, along with the other big four, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook, now make up a quarter of the S&P 500. We are seeing new investm...

/retail /cloud Banking Architecture

Roel Jansen

Roel Jansen SaaS Solutions Marketing at Temenos

A decade of Cloud adoption in Banking: Living up to its promise?

About a decade ago banks started adopting cloud technology. At first, they were very careful, and it included lengthy discussions with conservative regulators and anxious security officers. Later banks took significant steps to leverage cloud technology. However, does the cloud deliver on its promise of lower infrastructure costs, better integrati...

/retail /cloud Fintech

Shawn Hughes

Shawn Hughes 

FinTech Leaders Should Embrace This Two-Pronged Strategy to Survive the Pandemic Economy

For many, 2020 feels like a dream or at least like everything we once knew is being challenged. If FinTech leaders don’t reassess their understanding of the world’s relationship with financial services and adapt to this new reality, failure may be lurking around the corner. Conversely, if FinTech leaders pivot and continue forging innovative paths...

/cloud /covid-19 Operational Risk Management

Amita Choudhary

Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator

The Impact of AI on the Insurance Industry in the Short and Long Term

Artificial intelligence has started to take over many industries by storm. Its impact is easy to see in many fields already, and it’s very likely that we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg. The future potential for major changes is huge, and fields like insurance have started to take particular advantage of what AI has to offer. And while it wi...

/cloud Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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