Blog posts written by Kris Sharma

Kris Sharma
21 February 2022

Open source Machine Learning toolkit for financial services

Financial Services Article

The financial services sector is adopting Artificial Intelligence technologies at a growing rate. Areas such as asset management, algorithmic trading, credit underwriting, blockchain based finance solutions, fraud detection and claims processing have all seen increased adoption of Machine Learning to drive more robust data-driven decision ...

Kris Sharma
7 February 2022

Finserv hybrid cloud strategy – it starts with Linux

Financial Services Article

The future of financial services technology infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Hybrid multi-cloud architecture provides financial institutions flexibility, portability, interoperability, and the control needed to consistently deploy and manage enterprise applications and workloads. By adopting hybrid cloud, finservs realise the benefit ...

Kris Sharma
17 January 2022

Canonical Kubernetes for Financial Services

Financial Services Article

To serve today’s on-demand customer, financial institutions must become agile digital enterprises focused on delivering innovative products, services, and customer experiences. Adopting a container-first approach represents an unrivalled opportunity for financial institutions to increase system efficiency and resource utilisation, improv ...

Kris Sharma
10 January 2022

Kubernetes for Finservs – Unlocking success in digital transformations

Financial Services Article

The global health crisis has accelerated the digital transformation within the financial services industry. A McKinsey report highlights that “In a competitive environment of rising cost pressures, where rapid action and response is imperative, financial institutions must modernise their technology function to support expanded digitisatio ...

Kris Sharma
20 October 2021

Finserv open source security

Financial Services Article

The fintech ecosystem is flourishing and exciting things are happening these days at the intersection of digital technology and financial services – thanks in part to an infusion of global fintech investment that reached US$98 billion across 2,456 deals in H1’21. This far outpaces last year’s annual total of $121.5 billion across 3,520 de ...

Kris Sharma
9 August 2021

Open source in Banking – Building the bank of the future, today

Financial Services Article

Banking is at a pivotal moment. New regulations like virtual banking licensing frameworks, advances in open banking and big techs rapidly gaining ground in financial services, are dramatically changing the banking landscape, forcing incumbents to reinvent themselves. To be successful, the bank of the future will need to embrace emerging t ...

Kris Sharma
6 July 2021

Finserv open source infrastructure powers digital transformation

Financial Services Article

Covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation initiatives at pace and scale. Finservs are enhancing their purview of digital transformation initiatives to stay relevant and create a technology foundation that enables them to quickly bounce back from ...

Kris Sharma
4 May 2021

Fintech infrastructure and hybrid clouds

Financial Services Article

The future of Fintech infrastructure is hybrid multi-cloud. Using private and public cloud infrastructure at the same time allows financial institutions to optimise their CapEx and OpEx costs. Why Private clouds? A private cloud is an integral part of a hybrid multi-cloud strategy for financial services organisations. It enables financial ...

Kris Sharma
23 April 2021

Fintech AI/ML on Ubuntu

Financial Services Article

The financial services (FS) industry is going through a period of change and disruption. Technology innovation has provided the means for financial institutions to reimagine the way in which they operate and interact with their customers, employees and the wider ecosystem. One significant area of development is the utilisation of artific ...

Kris Sharma
8 March 2021

Why is Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for Finserv infrastructure?

Financial Services Article

Operating systems are the foundation blocks of technology stacks in organisations. When considering an open source operating system for Finserv infrastructure, there are four factors that are key to any enterprise using it – maintainability, continuity, stability and security. The Financial Services industry have started exploring options ...

Kris Sharma
4 February 2021

What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?

Apps Article

What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of the Lucene open-sourc ...

Kris Sharma
19 January 2021

What is PostgreSQL and why do banking software developers love it?

Financial Services Article

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that is known for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. PostgreSQL is becoming the preferred database for more and more enterprises. It is currently ranked #4 in popularity amongst hundreds of databases worldwide according to the DB-Engines Ranking. The ba ...