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Public cloud adoption in financial services – challenges and opportunities

By Tim Brazier Posted 29/06/2017

Public cloud adoption in financial services – challenges and opportunities

Every day companies around the world are finding new and innovative ways of exploiting public cloud technologies. The overall growth of cloud adoption continues to increase at double digit rates ...

The Old World Disrupted

By Marcin Kowalski Posted 28/06/2017

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The Old World Disrupted

I had the pleasure to speak at this year’s ABSL conference, which is quickly becoming one of the most important meeting points of business and technology in Central Europe. Representatives ...

Getting CMMI certified: An agile challenge

By Katherine Alfaro Ramírez Posted 27/06/2017

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Getting CMMI certified: An agile challenge

Over the past few months, the GFT Group went through a CMMI certification process, in which GFT Costa Rica played a part. I’d like to tell you a little bit ...

FX operations: The next frontier for mutualisation

New paper on challenges affecting FX

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Stage Five: Optimize | How to make the most of the Cloud

By Roberto De Micheli Posted 29/06/2017

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Stage Five: Optimize | How to make the most of the Cloud

It’s impossible to leverage all the benefits that come with cloud adoption without also implementing appropriate migration and governance strategies. Optimization will also feature significantly in this process. As cloud ...

Cloud database technology can no longer be ignored in financial services

By Nick Weisfeld Posted 26/06/2017

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Cloud database technology can no longer be ignored in financial services

Recent developments in cloud based data technology points to the beginning of a wider step change in the delivery of data technology within financial services, including two recent announcements made ...

How SFTR compliance creates a new vantage point for firms

By Ralph Sutter Posted 23/06/2017

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How SFTR compliance creates a new vantage point for firms

With the deadline for the Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) advancing rapidly (end of 2018), firms need to ensure they have a sustainable and low cost plan for how they ...

Stage Four | Operate: Have you considered the impact on your support and maintenance teams?

By Andrew Scotland Posted 22/06/2017

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Stage Four | Operate: Have you considered the impact on your support and maintenance teams?

In the previous blogs of this cloud migration series, you’ve read about the significant cost savings offered by migrating to the cloud, learned the various migration strategies available to your ...

Albert Creixell: “Banks are seeking to understand augmented reality and its potential in the financial world”

By Javier Goncer Posted 16/06/2017

Albert Creixell: “Banks are seeking to understand augmented reality and its potential in the financial world”

At the end of May, Samsung conducted a workshop in collaboration with GFT’s Digital Transformation Unit for the heads of a number of European financial institutions. The workshop was held ...

Stage Three: Security | Concerned the Cloud isn’t as secure?

By Carlos Mattos Posted 06/06/2017

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Stage Three: Security | Concerned the Cloud isn’t as secure?

In the third of this five-stage Cloud migration journey blog series, we’ll address the very real issue of cloud security. A perceived lack of security in cloud applications continues to ...