Finance Industry Archives

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The State of Data Streaming for Financial Services

ByKai Waehner
4. April 2023
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This blog post explores the state of data streaming for financial services. The evolution of capital markets, retail banking and payments requires easy information sharing and open architecture. Data streaming allows integrating and correlating data in real-time at any scale. The foci are trending enterprise architectures for data streaming and customer stories. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.

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Decentralized Data Mesh with Data Streaming in Financial Services

ByKai Waehner
28. October 2022
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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
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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.