Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements this week by banking software and SaaS vendors Temenos and Zafin as they look to partner with IBM Cloud. Banks have unique regulatory, security, and transactional requirements and industry-focused cloud offerings are being developed by hyperscale public cloud vendors to service these unique requirements and software vendors play a key role in driving adoption.
Bitcoin Becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador — and What This Means for FinTech
Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the adoption by El Salvador of bitcoin as legal tender and what this means for Fintech and the global payments and money transfer providers. In a historic move, the country of El Salvador has adopted the cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender.
IBM Financial Services Cloud Collaborates with Lotte Card on Transition to Hybrid Cloud
There have been some big wins recently for IBM’s Financial Services Cloud, including the company’s partnership with South Korea’s Lotte Card, alongside the CaixaBank deal. We predict there’s more business where that came from.