Azure Blockchain as a Service update #9
I'm pleased to announce the integration of Blockchain as a Service into Microsoft Azure DevTest Labs.
Microsoft Industry Blogs: Financial services
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AI transformation in financial services: 5 predictors for success in 2026
Financial services businesses are busily adopting agentic AI, with Frontier Firms leading transformation. Here are five critical predictors of success that will differentiate the leaders in 2026.
Risk Modelling in Insurance: Providing flexible solutions for insurers
Insurers need flexible solutions to measure value, manage risk and safeguard solvency. We asked Joel Fox and Stephen Hollands how Willis Towers Watson is helping insurers achieve those goals.
Transforming the financial services industry with blockchain
Today’s new economy is about more than goods and services – it is about sharing information and, ultimately, making transactions finally move at the speed of the internet. Blockchains are at the very heart of this.
Axioma delivers FinTech’s first born-in-the-cloud, multi-asset-class enterprise risk solution
With the increased electronification of financial markets, industry constituents need to process an enormous volume of data to support sophisticated trading and risk management decisions.
The future of risk modelling in insurance
Risk modelling is one of the fastest growing workloads in insurance – and the cloud is helping insurers to manage it in a way that delivers immediate value to the business and its customers.
Improving risk, pricing, and reserving through unlimited compute power in the cloud
Technological and scientific advancements are transforming, disrupting, and inventing industries like never before.
The Digital Insurer: Digital Differentiation
Digital technologies are enabling insurers to implement a differentiating business strategy – and prepare agents to support tomorrow’s customers.
Introducing Project Bletchley and elements of blockchain born in the Microsoft Cloud
Since launching Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) last November, we’ve been working side-by-side with businesses and partners to understand core industry scenarios, and to develop the technologies and ecosystem that will bring blockchain to enterprises, governments and people successfully.
Optimizing the Digital Workplace
As banks look to improve productivity and efficiency, the digital workplace is empowering workers with new ways to collaborate, connect and do business.
The Digital Insurer: Empowering engagement
In a digitally connected world, social media is empowering insurers to put the customer at the center of everything they do.
Philippines national credit union networks sign for Temenos Payment Solution running on Microsoft Azure
Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, has announced an agreement with two Philippines-based ACCU member organizations, National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO) and Philippine Federation of Credit Cooperatives (PFCCO) to provide a cloud-based banking and payment service, known as the ACCU Payment Platform (APP). The service will run on Microsoft Azure.
The clouds are lifting
Once a taboo, cloud computing is now mainstream in banking.