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🌐 Spotlight: Colin Cramer Strengthens CSP Advisory Bench
🌐 This Week’s Sketch: A Final Alert Leaders Can’t Ignore
🌐 News: Regulatory Pressure Reshapes Cores
🌐 Strategy: CB RADAR™ 2025: Market Reality
🌐 Workflow Fix: The Cloud Mirage Unpacked
🌐 Careers: Now Hiring: DevOps & UAT Leaders
🌐 Next Week: This issue challenges the idea that “going live” equals success
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Advisor Spotlight
Welcoming Colin Cramer
“Structure, not shortcuts, delivers outcomes.”
We’re excited to welcome Colin Cramer as Senior Advisor at Core System Partners. With over 20 years leading core banking transformations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Colin brings the structure, pragmatism and delivery assurance that high-stakes programs demand.
Known for turning around complex regulatory initiatives and guiding enterprise-wide operating model shifts, Colin’s calm, rigorous approach is exactly what clients need when timelines tighten and execution matters most.
Final Wake-Up Call
That “transformation dashboard” you launched two quarters ago? It’s still blinking and still ignored. This sharp cartoon nails a too-familiar moment: leadership hitting snooze while risks quietly pile up in the background.
The OCC gives Circle, Ripple, Paxos, BitGo, and Fidelity Digital Assets the green light to launch national trust banks, forcing crypto firms to stand up full, regulated core banking operations.CFG Bank selects Jack Henry to modernize its end-to-end core, supporting rapid growth in healthcare lending and scaling after a fivefold asset expansion since 2019.FCA’s Digital Securities Sandbox is driving banks to upgrade their core systems for stablecoin custody, compliance, and real-time digital asset settlement.Ready to explore? Dive into the highlights to see how leaders in the banking space are tackling innovation, efficiency, and scalability head-on. Let these stories inspire your own transformation journey. |
CB RADAR™ 2025
The core transformation landscape is shifting and fast. Drawing from 113 real-world projects, CB RADAR™ 2025 reveals what’s really happening behind vendor claims and shiny success stories. From cloud confusion to fragmented vendor ecosystems, this edition breaks down where banks stand, what’s working, and what’s dangerously misunderstood.
The Cloud Mirage
If your “cloud migration” still relies on on-prem infrastructure and endless server checklists, you’re not transforming, you’re rebranding. This article dives into why many core banking programs stall at the surface and what it really takes to move beyond the illusion of progress.
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