IBM Cloud for Financial Services

Overview

Cloud developed for the Industry

IBM Cloud for Financial Services is designed to help clients mitigate risk and accelerate cloud adoption for even their most sensitive workloads. Security and controls are built into the platform to enable financial institutions to automate their security and compliance posture, to make it easier for clients to simplify their risk management and demonstrate regulatory compliance postures.

Benefits

Address your compliance needs

Benefit from services with automated, pre-configured controls

Speed innovation

Access an ecosystem of ISVs, fintechs and SaaS providers

Safeguard your data

Get data control with industry-leading security capabilities

Operate with agility anywhere

Build and deploy anywhere through hybrid cloud deployment options

Solutions

An industry first to manage controls

Address your compliance requirements with an industry-informed common controls platform built in collaboration with financial industry leaders from major financial institutions from across the globe.

Speed innovation with Partners

Work faster with access to hundreds of ecosystem partner applications and services.

Purpose-built from the start

Get data control with industry-leading security capabilities.¹

Build and deploy globally

Run mission-critical workloads where you need them with security, allowing you to grow without expanding operations, all while monitoring workloads more efficiently. ²

Case studies

Circeo

IBM partnered with Circeo, a Hungarian fintech to deploy Red Hat® OpenShift® to launch innovative digital loan offerings in a highly flexible and secured environment.

Banco Sabadell S.A.

Banco Sabadell worked with IBM Consulting to expand and manage its Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) model and to innovate its digital solutions and services.

ERI Bancaire

IBM Business Partner ERI Bancaire extended its OLYMPIC Banking System into the IBM Cloud to add more options to deliver the solution under a cloud-based model.

Asteria

Asteria teamed with IBM to make cash-flow forecasting a reality for the smaller enterprise.

Royal Bank of Scotland

IBM and RBS created an AI-powered, cloud-based platform to simplify their customer experience with digital mortgage support.

Services

Industry expertise to guide your transformation

IBM Financial Services Cloud Community (FSCC)

IBM’s FSCC is a first-of-its-kind, on-line community open to professionals from across the financial services sector. Members use the platform to discuss the experiences, challenges and insights that come with cloud adoption and digitization.

Promontory, IBM Consulting

Implement your cloud and digital transformation while managing risk and regulatory requirements with assistance from Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Consulting™ business unit.

IBM Garage™

Work with IBM Garage to generate innovative ideas and equip yourself with the practices, technologies and expertise to rapidly turn those ideas into business value.

IBM Consulting

Work with IBM consultants to help grow and scale impact across your business. Create connected processes, AI, and a hybrid cloud architecture.

Resources

IBM uses hybrid cloud to assist two European banking groups become digital

Highly regulated workloads cannot be tackled by a standard cloud. IBM offers a secure cloud—IBM Cloud for Financial Services—to meet the demands of the financial industry.

IBM and SAP to Help Financial Institutions Accelerate Cloud Adoption

Learn how IBM and SAP are collaborating to help financial institutions address stringent compliance, security and resiliency requirements, while supporting transformation and innovation.

Rethinking the Core Banking App Modernization Journey

Read how a flexible core system built on the IBM Cloud for Financial Services can mean the difference between success and failure for many financial institutions.

Gartner Innovation Insight: What Bank CIOs Must Know When Considering Bank-Specific Cloud Solutions

This Gartner Research Report gives bank CIOs a way to evaluate different industry-specific clouds’ value propositions from one another as well as versus general cloud offerings

Seven key considerations for public cloud adoption in financial services

Research firm Celent analyzes drivers and obstacles for public cloud for financial services companies. This report is a starting point for maximizing the success of public cloud migration efforts.

IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services

The framework provides a common set of automated, preconfigured controls across the entire ecosystem, including IBM Cloud® services, third-party applications and financial institution workloads.

IBM Newsroom and coverage

RSI modernizes core banking systems and reduces energy consumption with a hybrid cloud approach from IBM and Red Hat

Rural Servicios Informáticos (RSI), a Spanish banking IT services company, and IBM have announced an agreement to modernize RSI’s core banking platform with hybrid cloud technology and industry expertise from IBM and Red Hat.

BPER Banca Group collaborates with IBM to modernize core banking systems and accelerate digital transformation plan

BPER Banca Group, the third-largest banking group in Italy, has entered a four-year agreement with IBM to help accelerate the bank’s evolution into a truly digital business.

Next steps

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Code pattern: Deploy cloud-native applications on IBM Cloud for Financial Services

Create a toolchain that scans for potential security risks as you deploy to OpenShift on a virtual private cloud.

See the code pattern

IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center

Use the IBM Cloud security and Compliance center to monitor and enforce controls from a single dashboard, to protect data and manage vulnerabilities across cloud environments.

IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services

Take control of your cloud data encryption keys and cloud hardware security modules with the service in the industry that’s built on FIPS 140-2 Level 4-certified hardware.

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1 Based on IBM Cloud® Hyper Protect Crypto Services, the only public cloud service in the industry built on FIPS 140- 2 Level 4-certified hardware. At this security level, the physical security mechanisms can provide an envelope of protection around the cryptographic module with the intent of detecting and responding to unauthorized attempts at physical access.

2 Based on IBM Cloud™ Key Protect with bring your own HSM and IBM Cloud® Hyper Protect Crypto Services, the only public cloud service in the industry built on FIPS 140- 2 Level 4-certified hardware. At this security level, the physical security mechanisms can provide an envelope of protection around the cryptographic module with the intent of detecting and responding to unauthorized attempts at physical access.