Market Insights

Open Banking is an opportunity to transform the value chain of banking — in how banks engage customers, offer them new products and services, and work with third parties to bring these new propositions to market. Finastra’s Open Banking Readiness Index, powered by IDC, provides a framework for banks to discover...

Infographic based on "Bank as a Platform" white paper by Efma & Finastra.

Open APIs are emerging as the vital enabler underpinning a new era of banking and payments services, driven by global initiatives and regulations such as PSD2. The collaboration model of the Open API ecosystem enables banks to harness FinTech-led innovation to deliver smarter, better payments experiences. Discover how in our new...

This infographic examines what is holding back innovation at financial institutions and how they can unlock innovation constraints with platformification. It references stats and information from the recent Celent research on platform.

What does a ‘good’ CECL implementation look like in terms of effect on capital and potential future strategies?

How banks can combat the threat of disintermediation through use of data

Leveraging Regtech to achieve more while being compliant with all existing and upcoming regulations.

This report examines the interplay between Open Banking and the move towards more data enabled corporate banking - and where to start when creating the cognitive corporate bank.

As the digital face of a bank to its corporate banking customers, cash management user experience must be ever more functional, intuitive, and informative.

Find out what the alliance of two tech giants, Microsoft and Finastra, will bring to the Banking industry.

This report, authored by Celent, explores the misconceptions that persist in the payments industry cloud payment processing, particularly with regard to security, regulatory compliance, cost and risk, and shows how modern cloud technology addresses and neutralizes them. It also makes the strong case that for a host of reasons – among...

Migrations and especially a change of the core banking solution are amongst the most complex IT procedures. Managing the variety and complexity of the issues to be considered – often at the interface of various disciplines (business, IT, regulatory, legal, etc.) – represents a major challenge.

The modern credit union has seen the need to expand how it plays in the financial services market as well as how it benefits its members. And with today’s reliance on technology, credit unions know that to keep up with any and all banking competitors, they must adapt and invest into...

Financial institutions that proactively tap into and leverage business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) are much better equipped to successfully confront today’s challenges than those who continue doing business as they always have.

Community banks that have built their business on personal relationships need to translate that personal touch into the digital world. A community bank that can layer digital excellence onto its local roots has a strong competitive advantage.