{"id":15814,"date":"2021-02-24T08:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=15814"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:02:45","slug":"the-cloud-imperative-for-financial-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/the-cloud-imperative-for-financial-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud Imperative for Financial Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a time when being in the clouds was synonymous with having unrealistic ideas. Today however, commercial financial institutions are finding it increasingly necessary to migrate into the cloud. With better scalability, resilience, flexibility and public accessibility, 58% of the workloads of most commercial financial institution now reside in the cloud. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the effectiveness of cloud-based solutions, resulting in more and more financial institutions ramping up their enterprise cloud strategies. While there are still some concerns regarding security and the use and storage of personal information, there is no doubt that the benefits to both financial institutions (e.g. reduced operational costs, shorter times to market, faster provisioning speeds) and consumers (e.g. better servicing, enhanced consumer experiences) will drive cloud-based financial solutions this year and beyond.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-15814 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='An overview of biometrics in the former Soviet Union'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/an-overview-of-biometrics-in-the-former-soviet-union\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/an-overview-of-biometrics-in-the-former-soviet-union-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14550\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14550'>\n\t\t\t\tAn overview of biometrics in the former Soviet Union\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Five reasons passwords are here to stay (at least for now)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/five-reasons-passwords-are-here-to-stay-at-least-for-now\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/five-reasons-passwords-are-here-to-stay-at-least-for-now-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11370\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11370'>\n\t\t\t\tFive reasons passwords are here to stay (at least for now)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Arab Financial Inclusion Prize encouraging FinTech to help the unbanked'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/arab-financial-inclusion-prize-encouraging-fintech-to-help-the-unbanked\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/arab-financial-inclusion-prize-encouraging-fintech-to-help-the-unbanked-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-10830\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-10830'>\n\t\t\t\tArab Financial Inclusion Prize encouraging FinTech to help the unbanked\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a time when being in the clouds was synonymous with having unrealistic ideas. Today however, commercial financial institutions are finding it increasingly necessary to migrate into the cloud. With better scalability, resilience, flexibility and public accessibility, 58% of the workloads of most commercial financial institution now reside in the cloud. Moreover, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15815,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15814\/revisions\/15815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}