Zafin has expanded its collaboration with IBM to help financial institutions speed their digital transformations with hybrid cloud.
Building on its work with IBM Global Business Services (GBS), IBM Garage, and IBM Z, Zafin now intends to onboard its award-winning platform to the IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
Zafin’s leading product and pricing platform, combined with IBM’s global leadership in cloud, services, and platform technology, provides secured and innovative cloud-based solutions for financial services providers.
Zafin and IBM will continue to collaborate to integrate core customer applications on IBM Z using Z Digital Integration Hub to provide banks real-time product and pricing information in hybrid cloud environments. The integrated technology will allow banks to use IBM Z to deliver superior customer experiences and efficiencies, with integrations built between IBM and Zafin.
Zafin has joined IBM’s partner ecosystem collaborating on the IBM Cloud for Financial Services to help partners accelerate transactions with financial services institutions. The IBM Cloud for Financial Services is designed to help financial services institutions’ address their requirements for their regulatory compliance, security and resiliency. IBM’s partner ecosystem fuels hybrid cloud environments by helping clients manage and modernize workloads from the mainframe to the edge and everything in between with Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.
“IBM and Zafin continue to collaborate to deliver a solution that is designed to utilize IBM Cloud’s confidential computing capabilities that enable financial institutions to securely deploy, scale, transform, and benefit from Zafin’s platform on IBM Cloud,” said John Smith, Executive Vice President of Ecosystem, Zafin. “Many of Zafin’s clients currently run IBM Z. Our continued collaboration with IBM marks a mutual commitment to offering IBM Z customers a path to modernization while helping to address compliance for financial services institutions both in the cloud and on-premises.”
“By using IBM Garage to build a SaaS solution that meets specifications of the IBM Cloud for Financial Services, Zafin strengthened its position to help financial services partners and their customers modernize,” said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President, Technology and Hybrid Cloud Partnerships, IBM. “Together with ecosystem partners like Zafin with which we collaborate in various ways to maximize support and scale impact, we’re helping financial services institutions accelerate their path to market by enabling transactions in a highly-secured hybrid cloud environment.”
