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Raktim Singh

Raktim Singh Senior Industry Principal at Infosys

Industry cloud platforms: The future of Cloud

Industry cloud platforms (ICP), distinct from general-purpose cloud platforms, are tailored to meet the unique needs of various sectors. Industry clouds are sets of cloud services, integration fabrics, products, and tools that offer sector-specific capabilities while being natively upgraded for cloud platforms and delivered at scale. Industry cl...

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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

The Criticality of Maintaining Data Quality Amid Cloud Migration and Digital Transformation

In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, cloud migration and the integration of advanced digital technologies are reshaping how banks operate. For example, many banks are moving their banking systems to cloud-based platforms and adopting technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance customer service and str...

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Smrithi Jacob

Smrithi Jacob Business Development Manager at ReveniQ

5 Reasons Why SaaS Metrics Matter

In the dynamic world of Software as a Service (SaaS), metrics serve as the compass guiding businesses through the labyrinth of challenges and opportunities. From fledgling startups to established enterprises, understanding and leveraging SaaS metrics is pivotal, especially in the developing stages of a SaaS venture. Here’s why: Navigate Growth Tra...

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Anne Willem De Vries

Anne Willem De Vries Co-founder and CEO at Silverflow

Legacy Systems Are Holding Payments Back

Despite processing millions of payments a day, the payments industry is being held back by outdated technology that has become too integral to replace or integrate with – until now. Legacy systems are already costing the payments industry $36.7 billion per year, a figure that is expected to rise to $57.1 billion by 2028. Rather than addressing sin...

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Zubin Limbuvala

Zubin Limbuvala Principal Data Strategy Lead at GFT

Are you brave enough to look beyond ‘Lift and shift’?

What do cloud solutions have in common with the electric vehicle industry? On the face of it not much. Corporate successes in the last few years have proven that slow evolution and retro fitment are not good enough for firms to thrive and excel. The most successful companies start off with an idea and a philosophy from the ground up. Take the exam...

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Raktim Singh

Raktim Singh Senior Industry Principal at Infosys

Industry cloud platforms: The future of Cloud

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Payments Modernisation: The Big Survey 2024

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Big Survey. Our annual report, surveying 350 senior bankers across the globe, offers a unique vantage point on the ever-evolving landscape of payments modernisation. Over the years, we’ve uncovered fresh developments and enduring challenges alike, painting a detailed picture of the industry’s trajectory. As we navigate 2024, the financial services sector is in the midst of profound transformation. Our latest insights highlight the critical need to modernise payment systems swiftly and effectively, driven by rising customer expectations and stringent regulatory demands.  Download our 2024 survey to learn about:  The current state of capabilities  Why payments architecture is more flexible than ever before  Financial institutions’ budgets and spending priorities  The global drive towards real-time and cross-border  And much more. 

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Event Report

Mastering DORA: A Strategic Guide to Operational Resilience

In the rapidly evolving fintech world, robust, reliable, and resilient systems are more crucial than ever. The industry must grapple not just with the challenges of instant payments and external cyber threats, but also with the advent of new players, running on varied infrastructures and offering unprecedented uptime levels.  DORA, introduced by the European Union, provides a dedicated framework for the EU financial sector, aimed at protecting digital operational resilience—a vital aspect of contemporary business operations.  This Finextra webinar report, hosted in association with NTT DATA, offers a strategic guide to mastering DORA. It covers:  Understanding DORA and its impact on the financial services industry  Why operational resilience is key to business continuity  Key aspects of implementation  And more.  Download our webinar report now to learn more.  Click here to watch the webinar on-demand now - DORA: The drive towards better operational resilience.

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Impact Study

AI and Cloud: The Proving Ground for Regulatory Resilience in 2024

The current macroeconomic landscape is marked by exceptional volatility and uncertainty, posing challenges to traditional models in the financial services sector. Despite this new challenging market context, some financial institutions continue to hit pause on using AI and cloud technology, falling behind the curve. Leveraging new technologies can no longer be a zero-sum game. This impact study explores: How can AI and cloud be leveraged to improve back-end processes, rather than just front-end experiences; How migrating to the cloud can fuel new use cases; The regulatory impact of PSD3, DORA and more; The benefits of data sovereignty and data governance; And more. Download this Finextra impact study, produced in association with Microsoft Azure, to learn more.

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FinextraTV

Fintech Collaboration in Banking and Reshaping the Industry

Join FinextraTV as Martin Bailey, Director of Innovation at Temenos, and Pritesh Ruparel, CEO at ALT21, discuss how partner ecosystems and accelerators have helped to deploy fintech solutions within banks. The pair also explore the importance of fast deployment and how it can help banks keep pace with their competitors.

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

ERP migrations and the pitfalls of decayed bank master data

In a data-rich world, financial institutions are already struggling with fractured bank master data. Add on top of that data decay and the drive towards migration as many ERP (enterprise resource planning) providers move towards the end-of-life dates for their traditional ERP systems, migration is becoming a herculean task. In the face of a loomin...

Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

How to define cloud sovereignty and the quest for balance

With the everchanging geopolitical landscape and new regulations coming to the fore, where data is kept, where it is shared, and who can access it are all considerations for financial institutions in a world where more data equals more power. As a growing amount of data is stored in cloud-based data centres, the EU, US, and China have issued regul...

Karan Jain

Karan Jain CEO at NayaOne

Top technologies that will disrupt UK fintech

The UK has made itself a centre for innovative technologies which evolve, disrupt and drive the global fintech ecosystem. This is an extract from the recently published report, 'The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035'. The UK fintech environment provides a perfect recipe to help foster innovations which are transformative, as well as impactful. T...