IBM names former Bank of America exec as new cloud head
Howard Boville steps in as Arvind Krishna takes over from chief Ginni Rometty.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service/IaaS
Paul Cormier steps in as new Red Hat CEO
Cormier replaces Jim Whitehurst, who moved to parent company IBM.
Nordic challenger Lunar adds $21.6m to its Series B
Monzo’s former head of product Ole Mahrt will also join its board of directors.
Trustonic lands security deal with South Korea’s biggest bank
“KB Bank are taking a more open market approach,” says Trustonic.
National Bank of Canada migrates Murex system to Amazon Web Services
Major Canadian bank shifts MX.3 to the Amazon cloud.
PayPal migrates “key” infrastructure to Google’s new Salt Lake City data centre
Google Cloud now has 22 data centers across the globe.
UK paytech Checkout.com buys French start-up ProcessOut
Checkout.com buys another module in the payments process.
New Zealand’s central bank launches new market infrastructure with Italy’s Sia
“The extent of change is significant,” says RBNZ, which is deploying to 57 banks.
Deutsche Bank reaches out to Big Tech for cloud assistance
Deutsche Bank has reportedly invited proposals from Microsoft, Google and Amazon.
Bank of England seeks public cloud technology partner
Regulator looking into benefits of SaaS and PaaS.
New challenges due to Open Banking and the benefits of instant payments
APIs are no longer seen as a difficult technical matter, but as a crucial building block.
Finra selects Amazon Web Services to power CAT processing
The regulator has selected a bevy of Amazon solutions.
IBM launches “world first” financial services public cloud
Big Blue is joined by Bank of America as first partner and collaborator.
Case study on Bank of America: How robots help serve and protect the bank
In a bank of this size, there are many areas that would benefit from automation of repetitive tasks.
A bird’s eye view of cloud and the payments industry
The sky is the limit for cloud and Volante.
Old Mutual plans to move 1,000 applications to AWS cloud
South African financial group makes strategic cloud decision
Sibos 2019: Final wrap-up of talks, interviews and daily news
See our final wrap-up of the London-hosted four day event!
Sibos 2019: SEB launches new environment-friendly product for Nordic SMBs
Th trend is shifting from last year’s focus on renewable energy.
Sibos 2019: “Blockchain is not a magic wand,” says Euroclear
The panel agrees blockchain is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution.
Sibos 2019: Swift reveals 41 second European payments pilot
The payment traveled from Singapore to Germany.
Welsh Delio secures £3.3m equity round
Delio will expand into Asia, the Middle East and North America.
Cloud security firm Netskope is dope with $168m funding
Massive round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Atos digital DNA drives revamp for insurer CNA
Love is in the air with new multi-year relationship.
IBM to revamp Avaloq’s IT model in cloud capabilities transformation
IBM and Avaloq tackle cloud infrastructure in the Swiss market.
Cloud market soared to $180bn in revenue in 2017 – study
A 24% year-over-year increase, according to new research by Synergy Research Group.
AWS and Microsoft Azure lead $35bn public cloud market
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continue to grow.
Oracle cloud revenue bursts 44%
Oracle reported total cloud revenues up 44% to $1.5 billion for Q2 of its fiscal 2018.
Oracle expands on-premise public cloud offering – sounds weird right?
Oracle has continued its journey into the cloud, expanding an interesting proposition to target the data sensitive and paranoid.
IBM Cloud comes to China
Wanda Internet Technology and IBM have signed an agreement for the former to enter the public cloud business in China. This will be done via a new firm – Wanda Cloud Company – built on the IBM Cloud Platform.
Oracle earnings look promising, but why the IaaS obsession?
Oracle has had another positive quarter as it navigates the complicated waters of business transformation, but it’s still a long way from kicking Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
AWS, IBM, Google and Azure dominate cloud revenues
Synergy Research has released its latest findings for the global cloud computing market, painting a worrying picture for any challengers looking to cash in on the craze.
Eurobank in digital banking overhaul with Accenture
Eurobank Ergasias has signed a ten-year agreement with Accenture to pursue digital transformation of its subsidiaries in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine. Accenture will help build a new platform for the bank, dubbed “Intelligent Infrastructure”. It will be based on Accenture’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering and will support Eurobank’s core functions, such as loans and deposits, […]
Are cloud-based managed services set to take off in 2016?
Over the last few years, technology infrastructures have become increasingly complex and expensive to manage. At the same time, IT budgets have been cut, leading to companies finding it hard to provide and maintain IT infrastructures. Dana Brants, head of services at Swift, looks at what companies can do under the circumstances. Due to costs, […]
Capture Today’s Banking Customer Leveraging Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Improve your customer’s experience with Hybrid IT Banks must compete fiercely for new customers and to hold onto the ones they have. That means consistently meeting customer expectations, which is no easy task given the speed with which those expectations are evolving, particularly in terms of Internet and mobile interactions. Banks need to deploy technology […]
