Have banks placed enough emphasis on future data requirements?

Leveraging data is vital to keep customers safe and meet expectations of immediacy in digital banking. There are already some good players who have harnessed data to deliver results in the fraud space. They are taking real-time data feeds from the core to identify fraud.  Historically, legacy systems have made it difficult to implement these

How can SaaScada minimise operational risk?

We believe it is all about real time data. What is happening right now? Not last quarter, not last month, not last week, right now. You can only deal with issues when you can see them and the faster you an access that data, the faster you can act. It is also about trust. Building

Powering payment services for SMEs and individuals

The Client The Payment Firm Ltd (The PayFirm) is an Electronic Money Institution, authorised in the UK. They offer services on an eMoney Distribution basis (rather than the now frowned upon Agency model). They specialise in providing cutting-edge digital financial services, providing an API to power their clients’ products. Their mission is to empower their

Cloud-native is not just old tech moved to the cloud

It is interesting to see just how many core banking platforms claim to be cloud-native when really they are simply old technologies repurposed for cloud. This means that they do not leverage all the benefits of the cloud. Genuine, cloud-native core banking strips away all the technologies that were traditionally used for banking. By turning

Savings Accounts Build and Migration

The Client Allica is a no-nonsense business bank, built especially for established businesses with between 5 and 250 employees. Their mission is to give businesses the banking they deserve. Allica was recently named as Britain’s fastest-growing private company in 2024’s The Sunday Times 100, and are also the fastest-growing fintech company in the 26-year history

Making it easier to manage interest rate changes

When building our product configuration engine, an important deliverable was ease of changes such as interest rates. The ease (or not) of making interest rates changes became incredibly important when interest rates started to change for the first time in many years. Indeed there were even circumstances where the process of changing interest rates were

Delivering flexibility

Cost and flexibility are key considerations when choosing the right core banking technology.  It is important to select a core banking platform that can support long term innovation, unlocking different ideas and new markets as the business grows. So we did away with the traditional modular product approach and instead created a Unified Product Hub

BaaS vs SaaS. Is there a place for both?

Banking as a service is a critically important product that is growing and maturing right now, it allows new propositions to get to market faster without the long wait for an EMI licence and with a preset list of partners available to get products live quickly. However, as a business matures there often comes a

Putting ESG at the heart of the business

ESG is a huge focus in the financial services industry. But what does it really mean? What can banks do to make a difference? Of the more than 8 billion people in the world, around 1 billion are unbanked. Whilst we work towards financial inclusivity for that 1 billion, there are still over 7 billion