Market Insights

Our platform partner Microsoft finds out why Finastra chose Microsoft Azure

Finastra's vision behind the strategic partnership of Microsoft and Finastra

Corporate banks who choose not to participate in the new open API ecosystem face disintermediation. How do they embrace this third wave of APIs if they want to be part of the future of payments?

How do banks combat disintermediation as geopolitical volatility, changing customer expectations and emerging technologies redefine the global trade landscape?

With the planned phase out of LIBOR in 2021, this paper looks at the operational implications the transition will cause for commercial and syndicated lenders.

Consolidating systems and support can improve operational efficiency by 20–30%, cloud computing can lower IT related costs by more than 20%, and AI can reduce costs and process times by 40% per process. Given the total investment that banks and credit unions make in IT and business process execution, such improvements...

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.

The October 2018 report highlights the count of mobile banking apps, recently completed in September 2018.

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.