Banking Archives - Kai Waehner

Top 10 Real Time Innovations in FinServ with Data Streaming using Apache Kafka and Flink

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How Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Flink Drives the Top 10 Innovations in FinServ

ByKai Waehner
9. February 2025

The financial industry is rapidly shifting toward real-time, intelligent, and seamlessly integrated services. From IoT payments and AI-driven banking to embedded finance and RegTech, financial institutions must process vast amounts of data instantly and securely. Data Streaming with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink provides the backbone for real-time payments, fraud detection, personalized financial insights, and compliance automation. This blog post explores the top 10 emerging financial technologies and how data streaming enables them, helping banks, fintechs, and central institutions stay ahead in the future of finance.

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Decentralized Data Mesh with Data Streaming in Financial Services

ByKai Waehner
28. October 2022

Digital transformation requires agility and fast time to market as critical factors for success in any enterprise. The decentralization with a data mesh separates applications and business units into independent domains. Data sharing in real-time with data streaming helps to provide information in the proper context to the correct application at the right time. This blog post explores a case study from the financial services sector where a data mesh was built across countries for loosely coupled data sharing but standardized enterprise-wide data governance.

Cloud Native Core Banking Platform powered by Apache Kafka Data Streaming

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Cloud-native Core Banking Modernization with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
16. March 2022

Most financial service institutions operate their core banking platform on legacy mainframe technologies. The monolithic, proprietary, inflexible architecture creates many challenges for innovation and cost-efficiency. This blog post explores three open, elastic, and scalable banking solutions powered by Apache Kafka to solve these problems.

Innovation in Financial Services and Open Banking with Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka in the Financial Services Industry

ByKai Waehner
18. January 2021

The rise of event streaming in financial services is growing like crazy. Continuous real-time data integration and processing are mandatory for many use cases. Apache Kafka is deployed across the financial services business departments for mission-critical transactional workloads and big data analytics. High scalability, high reliability, and an elastic open infrastructure are the key reasons for the success of Kafka. This blog post explores different use cases, architectures, and real-world examples in the FinServ sector.