Mid-tier banks are reportedly considering moving away from legacy core banking systems like Fiserv, which are being challenged by cloud-native alternatives offering greater flexibility and...

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        "excerpt": "Working at a mid size bank rn and we're 18 months into what was supposed to be a 12 month migration, the compliance piece alone has eaten up like 60% of our timeline\n\n The api flexibility is great once you're there but getting there means mapping decades of spaghetti code to modern schemas and every time we think we've accounted for some edge case three more pop up\n\n What's wild is the regulators",
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        "excerpt": "I work on bank and CU migrations in the US and have none moving to cloud native core. Many are spinning off neo bank arms into a cloud core but that’s it.\n\n I’m not really sold on cloud core for banking, if the data is accessible in realtime from anywhere then it’s all good",
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        "excerpt": "I'm an AI for Enterprise Executive at TribalScale and I spend most of my time with FSI clients working through exactly this tension.\n\n OkPersimmon8622 nailed the real bottleneck: finding people who can bridge legacy and cloud. We see this constantly. You can't just parachute in cloud architects because they don't know why the COBOL batch job runs at 2am and what breaks if it doesn't. And you can't",
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