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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, a company aiming for market expansion might focus on developing scalable infrastructure, enabling application localization, and enhancing security measures to support operations in new regions. The road map should include programs, projects, and actions needed to achieve the IT strategy’s goals.

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10 generative AI certs and certificate programs to grow your skills

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

If you want to learn more about generative AI skills and tools, while also demonstrating to employers that you have the skillset to tackle generative AI projects, here are 10 certifications and certificate programs to get your started. Upon completing the learning modules, you will need to pass a chartered exam to earn the CGAI designation.

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KeyBank CIO Amy Brady heeds the transformative call of IT leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking in 2024, she has made her mark in the industry and the community, serving on boards such as Playhouse Square and DuPont, and championing causes that uplift women in technology. Dan Roberts: Your first answer-the-call moment was banking on a career in banking, out of college.

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Steps CIOs should take to protect customer data in Nigeria’s open banking systems

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 5, 2022

Due to Nigeria’s fintech boom borne out of its open banking framework, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has published a much-awaited regulation draft to govern open banking procedures. For Emmanuel Morka, CIO at Access Bank Ghana, open banking is the future and enterprises should seize on the opportunity.

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Schrodinger’s Open Banking

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

I can’t help but think of open banking in the United States — it’s not here, and, at the same time, it’s very much here. In essence, they’re not waiting for the kind of regulatory open banking mandates that have been handed down in other parts of the world. They’re building their own open banking environment.

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Schrodinger’s Open Banking

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 31, 2022

I can’t help but think of open banking in the United States — it’s not here, and, at the same time, it’s very much here. In essence, they’re not waiting for the kind of regulatory open banking mandates that have been handed down in other parts of the world. They’re building their own open banking environment.

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Continuous learning gives U.S. Bank a technology talent edge

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. Banking on technology and people The largest technology investment for U.S. What we have discovered in implementing emerging technology at U.S.

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Arvest Bank reskills IT to support its banking core refresh

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

When Arvest, a regional bank operating in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, hired Laura Merling as chief transformation and operations officer in 2021, one of the first things she changed was its digital transformation plan. We wanted to be the leading community-focused bank serving commercial and small businesses.”

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As mainframe application development grows, so does the security risk

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

A Rocket Software survey found that over half (51%) of IT leaders rely on mainframe systems to handle all, or nearly all, core business applications. Mainframe security is critical to IT infrastructure, especially in industries like banking, insurance, healthcare, and government, where mainframes often store vast amounts of sensitive data.

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Super-app: a mobile platform worthy of its name

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

Super-apps are versatile mobile or web applications integrating multiple services and functionality into a unified platform experience. Consumers increasingly seek platforms that deliver a seamless experience without switching between multiple tasks and applications. The trend is most pronounced in financial services and payments.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

Two traits they share are a commitment to diversity and inclusion and active participation in organizations and programs championing women in tech. Fun fact: Centoni is Ciscos Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. Some have technical backgrounds; others have business or management degrees.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. The bank’s use of its mainframes is two-pronged. M&T Bank.

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25 enterprise tech predictions and goals for 2025, from APAC CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

src="[link] alt="alex tan" loading="lazy" width="400px"> Alex Tan Group Chief Information Officer (Yinson) As 2025 unfolds, we foresee a shift in the technology landscape: The generative AI (genAI) frenzy will give way to pragmatic applications, commencing with bespoke in-house chatbots that streamline operations.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs feeling the pressure will likely seek more pragmatic AI applications, platform simplifications, and risk management practices that have short-term benefits while becoming force multipliers to longer-term financial returns. CIOs should consider placing these five AI bets in 2025. Should CIOs bring AI to the data or bring data to the AI?

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What CIO certificate programs can do for your career

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2022

If you’ve been recently promoted into the CIO role, or hope to be at some point, a CIO management-certificate program can help you learn how to think strategically, approach the job systematically and broadly, and communicate effectively with other executives in the C-suite. No replacement for hands-on experience. That includes coaching.).

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EXL orchestrates AI for real business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

While its potential is broad, that makes it difficult to pinpoint its practical applications in specific industries. By combining the flexibility of generative AI systems and LLMs with the accuracy of conventional programming, it helps reduce the compute and storage costs of model re-training and post-processing.

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Neudesic launches in Australia in a bid to speed up AI adoption for IT teams

Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As a global professional services firm, Neudesic is now bringing decades of experience delivering capabilities spanning data and AI, cloud migration and modernisation, application development, and business strategy to Australia. It also streamlines compliance with customer identification programs.

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OpenTelemetry certification launches

Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A new certification program from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation is aimed at validating the skills needed to utilize OpenTelemetry to gain visibility across distributed systems. OpenTelemetry is the second most active open-source project of the CNCF, following Kubernetes.

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How AI continues to reshape the cybersecurity arsenal

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With each passing day, new devices, systems and applications emerge, driving a relentless surge in demand for robust data storage solutions, efficient management systems and user-friendly front-end applications. Yet, even if we run the same tool on 100 different applications, the tool hardly ‘learns’ from each test!

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3 Case studies demonstrate the power of modern enterprise content management

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

From insurance to banking to healthcare, organizations of all stripes are upgrading their aging content management systems with modern, advanced systems that introduce new capabilities, flexibility, and cloud-based scalability. With support from Hyland Professional Services, the bank migrated 2.5

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Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

Sunrise Banks, which operates community banks and a fintech service, has also seen cloud costs increase recently, says CIO Jon Sandoval. As it moved to the cloud, Sunrise Banks first estimated its cloud usage, then reserved cloud workloads with a major hyperscaler to keep costs under control, Sandoval says.

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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Albeit emerging recently, the potential applications of GenAI for businesses are significant and wide-ranging. Generative AI can help businesses achieve faster development in two main areas: low/no-code application development and mainframe modernisation. percent of the working hours in the US economy.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

“Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. The new ads were created very quickly,” says Banks. They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests.

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Turning boulders into pebbles: behind Westpac’s cloud journey

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

The move supports the goal to adopt a standard for all new systems at the bank, whether created by its own tech team or sourced from others, to be built to continuously change using evergreen cloud-native technologies, according to David Walker, Westpac Group chief technology officer. Building a simpler tech environment.

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What it takes to win your first CIO role

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 29, 2024

Primed by a rotational program that cycled through varied assignments to build a technology-plus-business foundation, Brown was able to develop a robust process orientation in addition to skills in communications, large-scale change management, even a Master Black Belt Six Sigma certification. “As

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The ultimate in convenient banking: make payments by thinking

Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In my presentation at yesterday’s media launch of ANZ’s Banking on Australia program , I spoke about new ways of making payments using biometrics.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that includes infrastructure and applications outside of centralized, dedicated, and cloud datacenters located as close as necessary to where data is generated and consumed. The ability to provision IT service at the edge is increasingly a requirement in our digital-first world.

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Trust Bank’s commitment to CX as a digital disruptor

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Singapore’s Trust Bank (also known simply as Trust) is a new financial institution that’s enjoyed a strong first year of operations, capturing 12% market share in Singapore since launch and setting new benchmarks in customer experience and innovation. As a bank, you cannot fail.” For us, we move fast and you don’t fail.

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Threema, the Seriously Secure Messaging Application: Check It Out!

CTOvision

MARCH 12, 2015

If you’ve ever been worried that the messages you are sending your friends and co-workers via the normal texting applications were not secure enough and you felt unsafe giving out personal information, then Threema might be the application for you to use. A company in Switzerland has created a secure application for messaging.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. It’s for speed to market,” says CTO Vikram Ramani.

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Buyer’s guide: High-performance computing (HPC) for AI

Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Although it can be complex, the right HPC implementation provides your enterprise the computing capabilities necessary for high-intensity applications in many industries, especially those taking advantage of AI. Azure also offers machine-learning tools and software for building applications with predictive analysis.

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Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Gerald Johnston , an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), founded GJ Technology Consulting, LLC, where he assisted global financial institutions and helped launch a UK startup bank. Contact us today to learn more.

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What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Robotic process automation (RPA) is an application of technology, governed by business logic and structured inputs, aimed at automating business processes. RPA scenarios range from generating an automatic response to an email to deploying thousands of bots, each programmed to automate jobs in an ERP system.

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Balancing innovation with value, cost, and practicality: The CIO’s guide to future proofing technology investments

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4 (April 2024) shows that to fund new investments in generative AI, companies will use a mix of maneuvers, including increasing IT budgets (53%), shifting budgets from digital transformation (30%), from infrastructure modernization (25%), and from application modernization (14%).

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Ally Financial finds gen AI success with 3 guiding principles

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Bank holding company Ally Financial is determined to stay at the cutting edge of technology in the financial industry. But Ally is part of a highly regulated industry, which has seen many banks and financial institutions delayed by regulations. A secure, reliable and scalable platform from which to run all AI applications.

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Vishing: Voice over IP (VoIP) and Plain Old Telephone Services (POTS) are also susceptible to phishing attacks – attackers use speech synthesis software and automated calls to solicit victims to share bank details and login credentials. Further, AI is a potent tool in the arms of cybersecurity experts.

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Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2024

Preparing for this new type of cryptography is a core part of HSBC’s quantum program.” In April 2022, the bank formalized their quantum technologies program with a dedicated research team of in-house PhD scientists to explore opportunities. “As The NIST standards figure prominently in the defense side of their work. “We

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7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

JP Morgan Chase president Daniel Pinto says the bank expects to see up to $2 billion in value from its AI use cases, up from a $1.5 The problem, she says, is that people are programmed to fill time with certain tasks, so when AI frees up time, people fill it up with more administrative work. billion estimate in May.

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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Company leadership also creates space and time for employees to innovate by dedicating a team of people to explore emerging technologies, run experiments, and identify business applicability, Crowe says. Laura Merling, chief transformation and operations officer, Arvest Bank. Arvest Bank.

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thirty years ago, Adobe created the Portable Document Format (PDF) to facilitate sharing documents across different software applications while maintaining text and image formatting. Look into application protection. Develop a plan to protect personally identifying information (PII).

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How Serious Is The Lack Of Machine Learning Talent?

The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

However, at banks, insurers and other financial companies their use of artificial intelligence is being especially hampered by a scarcity of data and talent. The banking and financial services sector have been showing a steady increase in demand across the board for AI-enhanced robotic process automation tools.

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‘The key is the cloud’: How to keep up with the speed of innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

The program begins April 12 and will cover aspects of cloud innovation and agility, with Jessica Groopman, founding partner at Kaleido Insights , kicking off the day with a look at three macrotrends reshaping cloud and software innovation. Christopher Marsh-Bourdon, head of hybrid environments at Wells Fargo Bank N.A.

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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management. Contact us today to learn more.

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Cash App class action settlement 2025: Claim your $2,500

Dataconomy

JANUARY 16, 2025

the parent company of Cash App) has faced a massive, multi-state regulatory actionresulting in $80 million in penaltiesfor alleged violations of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws. Cash App is a money transfer application launched in 2013. In addition to this class action, Block Inc. What is happening?

Banking

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

10 generative AI certs and certificate programs to grow your skills

Webinars

Trending Sources

KeyBank CIO Amy Brady heeds the transformative call of IT leadership

Webinars

Steps CIOs should take to protect customer data in Nigeria’s open banking systems

Schrodinger’s Open Banking

Schrodinger’s Open Banking

Continuous learning gives U.S. Bank a technology talent edge

Arvest Bank reskills IT to support its banking core refresh

As mainframe application development grows, so does the security risk

Super-app: a mobile platform worthy of its name

20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

25 enterprise tech predictions and goals for 2025, from APAC CIOs

Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

What CIO certificate programs can do for your career

EXL orchestrates AI for real business outcomes

Neudesic launches in Australia in a bid to speed up AI adoption for IT teams

OpenTelemetry certification launches

How AI continues to reshape the cybersecurity arsenal

3 Case studies demonstrate the power of modern enterprise content management

Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope

Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation

Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

Turning boulders into pebbles: behind Westpac’s cloud journey

What it takes to win your first CIO role

The ultimate in convenient banking: make payments by thinking

Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

Trust Bank’s commitment to CX as a digital disruptor

Threema, the Seriously Secure Messaging Application: Check It Out!

Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

Buyer’s guide: High-performance computing (HPC) for AI

Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation

Balancing innovation with value, cost, and practicality: The CIO’s guide to future proofing technology investments

Ally Financial finds gen AI success with 3 guiding principles

3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

How to create a culture of innovation

Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

How Serious Is The Lack Of Machine Learning Talent?

‘The key is the cloud’: How to keep up with the speed of innovation

Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

Cash App class action settlement 2025: Claim your $2,500

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