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Bud Financial helps banks and their customers make more informed decisions using AI with DataStax and Google Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

For banks, data-driven decisions based on rich customer insight can drive personalized and engaging experiences and provide opportunities to find efficiencies and reduce costs. For Bud, the highly scalable, highly reliable DataStax Astra DB is the backbone, allowing them to process hundreds of thousands of banking transactions a second.

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After ‘protestware’ attacks, a Russian bank has advised clients to stop updating software

The Verge

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine draws on, consequences are being felt by many parts of the technology sector, including open-source software development. Since open-source libraries are fundamental to software development, a general loss of trust in their integrity could have knock-on effects for users in Russia and elsewhere.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Gen AI without the risks

CIO Business Intelligence

Six tips for deploying Gen AI with less risk and cost-effectively The ability to retrain generative AI for specific tasks is key to making it practical for business applications. Don’t reinvent the wheel—start with a foundation model A business could invest in developing its own models for its unique applications.

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Increasing access to blockchain and ledger databases

All Things Distributed

They've created a way to connect small farms in developing nations to banks and distributers of goods, like seeds, fertilizer, and tools. Traditionally, rural farms have been ignored by the financial world, because they don't normally have the information required to open an account or apply for credit.

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The Roles of SAST and DAST and Fuzzing in Application Security

ForAllSecure

Applications have become a major part of our lives. From banking to shopping, nearly all daily tasks these days can be completed on a computer or smartphone. With more applications being built every day, the need for robust Application Security Testing (AST) has never been greater. For that you’ll need another tool.

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Fostering Innovation at Discover Financial Services

CIO Business Intelligence

So, how does a digital bank like Discover empower engineers to continuously generate, test, and launch new ideas? Global hackathons with open source collaboration Earlier this year, a designer at Discover created a prototype for a tool that improves accessibility across technology platforms.