IBM Cloud for Financial Services®
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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, and make it easier for clients to simplify their risk management and demonstrate regulatory compliance postures.
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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.
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
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.
 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.
 GEVA Group
IBM partnered with GEVA Group, a European payment processing company, to optimize security, stability and compliance by moving a critical service to IBM Cloud®.
Industry expertise to guide your transformation Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum
This online community brings like-minded people together who are interested in materially reducing the risk of cloud consumption across the financial services industry. The platform offers content and opportunities to collaborate on the latest industry trends, access to financial services experts, networking, member-generated content, working group opportunities, plus much more.
 Promontory Financial Group
Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Consulting ™ business unit, addresses client challenges through capabilities grounded in one of the highest levels of regulatory compliance and domain expertise. Promontory delivers innovative solutions to address business strategy, risk management and compliance challenges in a sustainable and efficient manner.
 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.
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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.
 Are You Getting The Most From Your Hybrid Cloud?
IBM commissioned report from Forrester Consulting on how most financial services organizations are taking a modern, hybrid approach to meet the individual, industry-specific demands of their application workloads, matching those specialized demands with both public and private cloud and traditional platforms.
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.
Expand access to financial institutions As an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), address institutions’ most critical concerns about cloud deployments and accelerate your time to revenue. Explore partner benefits Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum

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IBM newsroom and coverage Temenos Brings Innovative Payments Capabilities to IBM Cloud to Help Banks Transform with Focus on Security and Compliance.
Temenos Payments Hub becomes first payments solution to be available on IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
 BPER Banca Group collaborates with IBM to modernize core banking systems and accelerate digital transformation plan RSI modernizes core banking systems and reduces energy consumption with a hybrid cloud approach from IBM and Red Hat IBM and Bank of America advance IBM Cloud for Financial Services, BNP Paribas joins as anchor client in Europe CaixaBank boosts digital capabilities with IBM Cloud for Financial Services; onboards to new IBM Cloud Multizone Region in Spain Dizzion, IBM, and VMware aim to accelerate innovation of managed digital workspaces for financial services institutions
Dizzion is releasing its new Digital Workspaces for Financial Services, available on IBM Cloud for Financial Services. With built-in security and compliance capabilities, IBM is helping Dizzion address the challenges of securing hybrid workforces and mission-critical workloads, while prioritizing resiliency and performance and helping more efficiently demonstrate regulatory compliance.

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Next steps

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 Talk to an IBM Garage expert Start building today 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. 

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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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Footnotes

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.