Financial Services

MIRA-B, a reference architecture that helps financial institutions modularize and align business and technology assets, outlines a roadmap for the future with the flexibility to deliver solutions on-premise or in the cloud. As a result, this supports new business models, profit streams, and improved customer experiences to drive strategic growth.

Fiserv announces its commitment to offer financial institutions solutions that deliver a compelling "hands on" yet seamless customer experience, supporting Windows Phone, Windows-based tablet devices and Microsoft Surface 2.0.

Together with Microsoft, BNP Paribas envisages the future of the branch at its Concept Store.

Temenos has announced record-breaking results of a T24 performance benchmark measuring the high-end performance and scalability of T24 R12 on a pre-release version of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. At peak performance, the system processed 11,500 transactions per second in online business testing and averaged more than 10,000 interest accrual and capitalizations per second in close of business testing.

Auditors at CME Group have been equipped with Windows 7 slates. CME Group supports the slates with its existing infrastructure and expertise and has found that porting an application to Windows 7 slates takes only 8 percent of the time it would take to port to another tablet. The company estimates that Windows 7 slates can increase auditor productivity by 10 to 20 percent.