By Published On: September 17, 2025

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🌐 Spotlight: Core Transformation Scorecard accelerates innovation, learning, and value.

🌐 This Week’s Sketch: Compliance Can’t Be a Last-Minute Sprint

🌐 News: PeoplesBank grows, Temenos expands, leadership shifts.

🌐 Strategy: APIs modernize banking with integration, security, and innovation.

🌐 Workflow Fix: When Password Policies Become the Problem shows how outdated rules hurt security.

🌐 Ops Insight: AI in Core Banking shows what’s real value and what’s just hype.

🌐 Careers: New roles in compliance, payments, analytics.

🌐 Next Week: Risk, compliance, and modernization collide next week.

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CB RADAR™

Market Intelligence Report 2025

113 banks. 4 years. One dataset that cuts through the hype.

Since 2021, 113 banks worldwide have launched core banking transformations. Some finished. Some failed. Many say they succeeded, but did they really?

The CB RADAR™ Market Intelligence Report 2025 reveals:

  • 84.5% cloud adoption, but what “cloud” really means varies.
  • 72.5% report success, yet history shows most projects stumble.
  • 20+ vendors fighting for share, no clear leader.
  • Nearly half of all projects in the U.S.

 

This isn’t vendor spin. It’s the first clear picture of who’s transforming, how, and with what results.

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Compliance Can’t Be a Last-Minute Sprint

The real audit surprise? When preparation happens in the last five minutes. Compliance should be part of daily operations—not a last-minute scramble.

Treating audits like surprise deadlines drains teams and risks errors. This article explores how proactive, built-in compliance practices can reduce burnout, improve audit outcomes, and support transformation.


  • United States: PeoplesBank Sets Community Banking Milestone

PeoplesBank is now the largest US community bank on a cloud-native core, onboarding 19K customers on day one after a four-year Nymbus transformation.

  • Temenos and AWS Partnership

Temenos is scaling its core banking platform across Asia-Pacific via AWS, giving banks cloud-native agility and cost efficiency.

  • Temenos CEO Departure Signals Strategic Shift

Temenos CEO Jean-Pierre Brulard steps down after 16 months; CFO Takis Spiliopoulos takes over as interim CEO amid a strategic rethink.

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.


Why APIs Are the Future of

Core Banking Evolution

Why APIs are transforming core banking into a more secure, integrated, and innovative system.

APIs are redefining core banking, enabling integration, innovation, and speed without tearing out legacy systems. This article unpacks how banks are using APIs to modernize, stay compliant, and drive new revenue.


When Password Policies Become the ProblemOutdated password rules create frustration, not security. Banks need smarter, user-friendly systems.Overcomplicated security rules aren’t making banks safer, they’re making users workaround-prone. This article explores how outdated password policies lead to weaker security, and how human-centric, modern authentication design can fix it.


AI in Core Banking:

What’s Real and What’s Just Hype?


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