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In this interview on #cloud as a key enabler of open banking, GFT's Christian Ball emphasises the importance of cloud infrastructure to the open banking process and why firms need to grasp this crucial technology sooner rather than later.

Open banking and cloud technology are very closely entwined. Their growth will inevitably progress in parallel. Banks that wish to capitalise on the open banking opportunity will adopt strategic cloud solutions and as open banking develops, cloud technology will move from useful to essential. This paper examines open banking as a catalyst of...

Open banking is emerging as the driving component of a broader digital banking strategy for most financial institutions. GFT has been working with our partner AWS to develop solutions that help financial institutions manage, transform, and store their data securely. Find out more about what this collaboration can do for your open banking...

Open banking heralds a seismic change in global financial services, however, the future of any open banking offering will ultimately be determined by the value it provides. A new thought leadership paper from GFT entitled ‘The monetisation of open banking’ explores some of the key commercial issues surrounding open banking. It offers a...

The last few years have seen huge investment into software that brings distributed ledger technology (DLT) to financial markets, but it remains unclear as to whether it will be fit for purpose. In particular, it remains to be demonstrated that DLT is capable of working in intensely demanding, high throughput environments, suitable for financial...

From our practical experience we know that migrating to the cloud is a major undertaking. For many banks the true benefits promised by cloud may be more distant than previously thought. But, once they arrive, will it have been worth the effort? We firmly believe that cloud technologies herald a new dawn in computing – one day, practically all...

GFT, global IT engineering and technology specialists for the financial services industry for over 30 years – and Google Cloud services partner, has announced the launch of their GFT Streaming Enterprise Analytics Platform (SEAP) solution powered by Google Cloud. SEAP provides real-time data ingestion and processing to support the consumption of...

A recent GFT study reveals the banking industry is more excited by the disruptive potential of cloud computing than its ability to simply reduce costs. The findings reveal that investment banks are set to increase their use of public cloud by over fifty percent within the next five years, as greater awareness of the benefits of hosting banking...

What are the practical aspects that organisations need to consider as they prepare to seize the opportunities presented to them in the open banking environment? To answer this question, GFT & Bobsguide hosted a webinar. The panel included: Christian Ball, Head of Retail Banking, GFT Michael Maier, Co-Founder, Fidor Bank Louise Beaumont,...

Following our recent AI event with Google, Artificial Intelligence - Taking it to the next level, GFT asked those within financial services what the current challenges are for them and what the future might hold in relation to these innovative technologies.