By Published On: August 20, 2025

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🌐 This Week’s Sketch: The 500-Page Report Nobody Reads

🌐 News: Zions speeds up, Tuum scales in MENA, banking goes invisible.

🌐 Strategy: Leadership is the real engine behind core banking success.

🌐 Workflow Fix: The Meeting About the Meeting shows how planning stalls action.

🌐 Ops Insight: Avoid transformation failure by addressing employee resistance early.

🌐 Toolkit: Assess your core readiness in seconds with the Optimize Scorecard.

🌐 Careers: We are currently hiring hybrid/remote roles in ops, data, and compliance.

🌐 Next Week: Fix fragility in banking tech before it breaks your core.

 

Don’t miss this issue, it’s where strategy meets execution, and your next breakthrough begins.


The 500-Page Report Nobody Reads

If your reports aren’t driving decisions, they’re just daily data dumps. Smarter reporting means less paper, more progress.

More data isn’t more insight, t’s just more noise. Banks are generating massive reports daily, but if no one reads them, they’re not helping. This piece explores how report sprawl, outdated habits, and misaligned metrics are draining time, hiding risk, and blocking decisions. Learn how to shift from ritualized reporting to actionable insight, and start turning data into results.

 


  • Zions Bank’s Complete Core Overhaul Lessons

    After a decade-long full core replacement, Zions Bank is now building products 40% faster. Here’s what they learned about resilience, risk, and ROI.

  • NS&I to Replace Legacy Core with SBS’s Cloud-Native SBP Digital Core

    OBDS launches Uptex Bank in MENA, powered by Tuum’s SME-focused, open banking–ready, cloud-native core platform.

  • MUFG Banks on Zerobank Design Factory’s Cloud Core for Digital Bank Launch

    From voice commands to IoT-enabled payments, core systems are becoming ambient, embedding banking into everyday life.

 

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 Role of Leadership in

Core Banking Success

Strong leadership is the blueprint for core banking transformation success—uniting vision, innovation, and change management to guide people and technology toward lasting results.

Core banking overhauls succeed not because of platforms, but because of strong, visionary leadership. This article breaks down the five leadership traits that separate thriving banks from struggling ones, from setting clear goals and managing change to building resilient teams and driving innovation from the top.


The Meeting About the Meeting

When meetings multiply without action, progress stalls—plan less, execute more.

When endless planning becomes the biggest blocker to progress. In core banking transformation, meetings are essential, but when your calendar fills with alignment sessions and pre-kickoff calls, momentum stalls. This article breaks down how meeting overload kills execution, why it’s especially common in high-stakes projects, and how to shift from performative planning to real progress.


How Employee Resistance Can Sabotage Transformation

Even the best platforms fail when wrapped around bad processes. We reveal five critical failure points and how to sidestep them.


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