Financial Services archives
27 posts
Why is Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for financial services?
By Kris Sharma, 17 October 2024
Financial services are powered by technology. The customer experience is increasingly driven by data, with tailoring of products and services to reflect...
Digital innovation in finance – the open source imperative
By Kris Sharma, 29 September 2023
Digital innovation is transforming finance. Advances in financial technology such as mobile money, peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending, robo advice, and...
Machine learning in finance: history, technologies and outlook
By Kris Sharma, 23 August 2023
In its analysis of over 1,400 use cases from “Eye on Innovation” in Financial Services Awards, Gartner found that machine learning (ML) is the top technology...
Accelerating the adoption of AI in banking with MLOps
By Kris Sharma, 1 May 2023
There is rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the finance sector. AI in banking is reshaping client experiences,...
Secure open source MLOps for AI/ML applications in financial services
By Kris Sharma, 7 February 2023
The adoption of AI/ML in financial services is increasing as companies seek to drive more robust, data-driven decision processes as part of their digital...
Open source in financial services – start with a strong foundation
By Kris Sharma, 13 December 2022
Financial Institutions (FIs) need to respond with agility and business velocity to keep pace with changing economic conditions. Yet, emerging competition from...
Join Canonical and the financial services open-source community at OSSF NY
By Canonical, 5 December 2022
OSFF is a global conference hosted by the Linux Foundation FINOS that brings together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage...
Empowering developers in financial services with desktop as a service
By Kris Sharma, 21 November 2022
The pandemic has accelerated the trend toward remote working environments but it also pushed governance and security issues to the top of the priority list...
How can the financial services sector tackle cloud concentration risk?
By Kris Sharma, 14 November 2022
The use of cloud computing by financial institutions has significantly increased in the last few years, a trend that was further accelerated by the COVID-19...
Migrating to an open-source private cloud platform: key considerations
By Kris Sharma, 30 September 2022
Private clouds combine the many benefits of cloud computing, like elasticity, scalability and agility, with the security, access control and resource...
Migrating from VMware to an open-source private cloud in financial services
By Kris Sharma, 10 August 2022
Financial institutions will need to use the right mix of cloud services to maximise application performance while on-boarding innovative new capabilities. How...
Cost optimised private cloud for financial services
By Kris Sharma, 4 May 2022
Why private clouds? Regulatory compliance and data privacy requirements require financial institutions (FIs) to consider carefully where their applications...