By Published On: October 1, 2025

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🌐 Spotlight: Core systems aren’t just tech, they’re the heartbeat of banking.

🌐 This Week’s Sketch: The Just Sign It Incident warns against blind risk approvals.

🌐 News: Core launches, migrations, neobank growth

🌐 Strategy: Modular cores cut risk, cost, and time with step-by-step modernization.

🌐 Workflow Fix: When Risk Governance Becomes a Riddle shows how approval loops stall progress.

🌐 Ops Insight: OptimizeCore journey recap highlights next steps in modernization.

🌐 Careers: Now Hiring Remote Hybrid Specialists.

🌐 Next Week: Next week uncovers digital pain points before they trip you up.

Strategy meets execution here. Don’t miss what could spark your next big move.


Exploring the true essence of

core banking systems

Core banking system architecture showing how transaction processing, customer information, and product management connect with digital banking, reporting, demographics, and regulatory functions.

Is your ā€œcoreā€ banking system actually the core?

We asked readers how they define a core system and the answers revealed just how fuzzy the term has become. In this deep dive, we cut through vendor marketing and internal confusion using a surprisingly useful analogy: the cardiovascular system.

Discover the true heartbeat of your banking operations.


The ā€œJust Sign Itā€ Incident

Cartoon illustrating blind signoffs in banking compliance, highlighting the dangers of rubber-stamped approvals and the need for real risk understanding.

Banks that treat risk signoffs as routine paperwork risk signing away more than they realize. Learn how to spot red flags and turn approvals into strategic tools.


  • Asia Pacific Technology Systems Launches New Core Banking Platform

Asia Pacific Technology Systems launches a cloud-ready core banking platform tailored for regional banks’ digital transformation..

  • Bank of Commerce (Philippines) Completes Core Migration

Bank of Commerce (Philippines) pulls off a weekend-wide core system upgrade across 140+ branches and ATMs with Infosys and IBM.

  • Snappi Neobank Scales with Natech Core Platform

Greek neobank Snappi hits 10,000+ users powered by Natech’s modular core—delivering agile, digital-native banking from day one.

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.


The Right Way to Approach

a Modular Core Strategy

 

The ā€œJust Sign Itā€ Incident – Understanding risk is better than blindly accepting it.

Forget one-and-done overhauls. Learn how a modular core strategy lets banks modernize faster, cheaper, and with less risk, one component at a time.


When Risk Governance Becomes a Riddle

The compliance chicken-and-egg problem: When testing depends on approval, and approval depends on testing, transformation stalls.

Compliance shouldn’t block progress. Learn how banks can break the approval loop and design governance that supports safe, smart innovation.


Embarking on the OptimizeCoreĀ® Journey:

Recap and What’s Next

Compliance shouldn’t block progress. Learn how banks can break the approval loop and design governance that supports safe, smart innovation.


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