Many banks still need convincing of cloud tech and digital signatures for treasury

Digitalization may be a hot topic in the treasury world, but many financial institutions remain unconvinced that the benefits justify the cost and disruption involved in moving away from in-house servers or manual signatures.

Almost one-in-five banks do not have access to cloud technology across their cash management, lending and trade finance business, while a similar percentage are not using digital signatures.

That is one of the most arresting findings from research published by Finastra into the priorities of heads of relationship, technology and product across global corporate banks.

It [is] difficult for banks to keep pace, further perpetuating this technology gap

Torsten Pull, Finastra
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Capco partner Peter Kennedy suggests this is down to a combination of prioritization of resources and the fact that some banks are yet to be convinced by the business case.

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