--- title: Blog posts tagged "finance" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/finance?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged "finance" #### [Open source in financial services – start with a strong foundation](https://canonical.com/blog/open-source-in-financial-services-start-with-a-strong-foundation) Financial Institutions (FIs) need to respond with agility and business velocity to keep pace with changing economic conditions. Yet, emerging competition from fintechs and challenger banks and increasing customer expectations is making this task difficult, especially as regulatory and compliance requirements increase. Embracing the next p --- Financial Services #### [Empowering developers in financial services with desktop as a service](https://canonical.com/blog/empowering-developers-in-financial-services-with-desktop-as-a-service) The pandemic has accelerated the trend toward remote working environments but it also pushed governance and security issues to the top of the priority list for IT departments within financial institutions. Employees, and developers in particular, need the technological agility to work remotely given the hybrid workplace model being adopte --- Financial Services #### [How can the financial services sector tackle cloud concentration risk?](https://canonical.com/blog/https-ubuntu-com-blog-financial-services-cloud-concentration-risk) The use of cloud computing by financial institutions has significantly increased in the last few years, a trend that was further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the next few years, financial institutions will need to continuously balance the pressure to innovate quickly while managing risk and combating financial crime.  Accordin --- Financial Services #### [Finserv open source security](https://canonical.com/blog/fintech-open-source-and-cybersecurity) 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 --- Financial Services #### [A ‘Connected’ Bank – The power of data and analytics](https://canonical.com/blog/connected-banks-data-analytics) The next 10 years will redefine banking. What will differentiate top banks from their competitors? Data and derived insights. Banks across the globe have been immersed in their digital agenda and with customers adopting digital banking channels aggressively, banks are collecting massive volumes of data on how customers are interacting at --- Financial Services #### [What’s new in Ubuntu 18.04 and OpenStack Queens](https://canonical.com/blog/whats-new-in-ubuntu-18-04-and-openstack-queens) Canonical have recently released 18.04 LTS to continue Ubuntu’s positioning as a reference cloud for digital transformation workloads. Ubuntu is at the heart of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, both public and private, in key sectors such as finance, media, retail and telecommunications. Join our upcoming webinar to discover how Ubun --- Cloud and server #### [Hybrid cloud & financial services- how to compete with new entrants](https://canonical.com/blog/hybrid-cloud-financial-services-how-to-compete-with-new-entrants) Finance is moving an avalanche of change and facing cloud native new entrants. To keep up with the pace of change, financial organizations need to adopt new development methodologies, new technologies (AI & Blockchain) and ultimately new infrastructure (Hybrid cloud & Kubernetes). Tight regulation, legacy systems and inflexible software s --- Cloud and server #### [How City Network solves challenges for the modern financial company](https://canonical.com/blog/how-city-network-solves-challenges-for-the-modern-financial-company) Learn how City Network builds their Regulatory compliant Cloud services fit for some of the largest banks, insurance companies and large corporations in the world. In this talk, Johan Christenson, CEO of City Network, will detail: Requirements and challenges for industries who are subject to regulatory compliance How we build our clouds a --- Cloud and server #### [Stuck Stacks, the 7 year itch and the DevOps dilemma](https://canonical.com/blog/stuck-stacks-the-7-year-itch-and-the-devops-dilemma) 7 years in, where do we go from here? It is 7 years since OpenStack came into being. 7 short years comprised of long days and late nights bringing it all together to the point that global businesses such as Walmart, AT&T and Bloomberg are now running on OpenStack. Whilst most OpenStack implementations started --- Cloud and server #### [OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between](https://canonical.com/blog/openstack-public-cloud-from-stockholm-to-dubai-and-everywhere-between) City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) today joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme. Through its public cloud service ‘City Cloud’, companies across the globe can purcha --- Canonical announcements #### [IOTA: IoT revolutionised with a ledger](https://canonical.com/blog/iota-iot-revolutionized-with-a-ledger) Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only are these systems incredibly expensive to maintain, they are also “single points of failures” which expose a large number of users to unexpected service interruptions, fraudulent acti --- Internet of Things #### [More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows](https://canonical.com/blog/more-people-use-ubuntu-than-anyone-actually-knows) People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix, in a post that it seems he’s been itching to post for months.Why the negativity?!? Are you sure? Did you count all of them?No one has.  And no one can count all of the Ubuntu --- Cloud and server