Cloud computing
Webinar: How can central banks future-proof reserve management in a rapidly evolving financial landscape?
How central banks can take a strategic, future-proofed approach to modernisation by consolidating fragmented systems into a unified platform
Fintech Benchmarks 2025 – model banks analysis
Data breakdown reveals differences in CBDC research, AI use and adoption of the cloud
Fintech Benchmarks 2025 report – supervising security
Benchmarks highlight how technological advancement needs to go hand in hand with tougher security
Basel Committee examines financial system in digital flux
Committee outlines fintech risks in first report since 2018
Fintech Benchmarks 2024 report – the promise and threat of AI
Benchmark data reveals how central banks are developing CBDC, tapping into AI tools and using cloud services to boost their work
BoE and FCA set out plan to oversee ‘critical third parties’
Regulators fear growing reliance on outsourced services could threaten financial stability
Quantum computing and AI threaten financial system, Fed says
Ransomware groups seek to “exert maximum pressure on victim organisations”
Third-party risks are a first priority for central banks
Cyber and concentration risks crystallise co-operation between critical infrastructure providers
Fintech Benchmarks 2023 – presentation
Specialist Joasia E. Popowicz discusses CBDCs, cyber security, AI/ML in regtech, suptech and cloud computing
ECB joins ‘Gaia-X’ data and cloud network project
Initiative aims to build a European data ecosystem to boost “digital sovereignty”
Fintech Benchmarks 2022 – presentation
Central Banking’s fintech subject matter specialist Joasia Popowicz speaks with Chris Jeffery about strategy, staffing, cyber security, CBDCs, regtech and suptech, AI/ML and the cloud
BoJ finds some CBDC designs suffer from bottlenecks
Designs faced pressures on transaction throughput, latency and CPU load
Fed hiring more staff to examine cloud providers
Regulator wants to put more “boots on the ground” at firms such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft
Machine learning and NLP top regtech tools
Micro-prudential reporting and risk assessment are main regtech applications
Podcast: why the future of data management sits in the cloud
Cloud technology has numerous benefits for central bank data management
Joint CBDC project highlights promise of interoperability
Banque de France, HSBC and IBM find different technologies can still work together
Podcast: Central banks and cloud adoption
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced central banks to think differently about cloud-hosted services
UK’s FCA to invest £120 million in move towards cloud
Chief executive Nikhil Rathi says FCA will be “data and digital first” regulator
BoE permits cloud usage to support ISO 20022 migration
Cloud usage must be “controlled” and not risk wider payments ecosystem, BoE report says
Covid and the cloud: a turning point for central banks?
As central banks embrace new technology, providers are jostling to be first in line
Bundesbank warns about digital challenges for German banks
Report stresses the importance of reinforcing cyber security processes