Latest Cloud News: Finextra Research

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank shifts digital system to Google Cloud

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank says it is already reaping the benefits of shifting its digital platform to Google Cloud.

16 October 2023

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft cloud duopoly to be investigated by Ofcom

Historically, it could be argued that financial institutions were beholden to pick between AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure for all workloads due to availability, but with other smaller cloud providers offering private cloud fabrics, financial organisations are considering hybrid or multicloud options. However, Ofcom has an alternative view.

06 October 2023

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NatWest to build generative AI tools and expertise with AWS

NatWest is extending its collaboration with Amazon Web Services to incorporate the uptake of new generative AI technology from the cloud provider.

25 September 2023

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Achieving sustainable growth: Acting on ESG priorities

Finextra sat down with Kalliopi Chioti, chief marketing at ESG officer at Temenos, and Schuyler Weiss, CEO of Alpian at the Temenos Community Forum during May, where the experts discussed paths to sustainable growth for banks and emerging ESG solutions.

22 September 2023

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Sibos 2023: Temenos Payments Hub launched on IBM Cloud

Temenos has announced that Temenos Payments Hub, a payments solution, is available as the first of its kind on IBM Cloud for Financial Services.

20 September 2023

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Sibos 2023: Visa and Swift team up to boost global B2B money movement

Swift and Visa have moved to strengthen the connectivity between their networks in a move designed to streamline international B2B payments.

19 September 2023

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UK banks ditch the Metaverse

The number of UK banks investing in technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality is falling as the Metaverse hype fades away.

13 September 2023

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MSCI expands Google partnership to explore AI services

Benchmark provider MSCI has extended its partnership with Google Cloud in order to accelerate its development of generative AI services for the investment industry.

30 August 2023

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How the US financial sector is embracing digital transformation in payments

During the Temenos Community Forum in Vienna in May this year, Finextra spoke to Phil Barnett, president of the Americas at Temenos, and Charles Kim, executive VP and CFO at Commerce Bank to discuss digital transformation in the US payments industry.

17 August 2023

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ANZ to hire 700 staff for new tech hub in Brisbane

ANZ is to establish a major tech hub in Brisbane as part of the bank’s plan to acquire Suncorp Bank.

17 August 2023

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Bud taps Google Cloud generative AI tools to develop intelligent chatbot

UK fintech Bud has developed a generative AI core and chatbot for personalised customer insights using Google's PaLM2 large language model.

08 August 2023

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FS giants team on open standards project for common cloud controls

The Fintech Open Source Foundation (Finos) is forming an open standard project to describe consistent controls for compliant public cloud deployments in the financial services sector.

28 July 2023

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