The State of Data Streaming for Financial Services in 2023

This blog post explores the state of data streaming for financial services in 2023. The evolution of capital markets, retail banking, and payments requires easy information sharing and open architecture. Data streaming allows integrating and correlating data in real time at any scale. I look at trends to explore how data streaming helps as a business enabler. The foci are trending enterprise architectures in the FinServ industry for mainframe offloading, omnichannel customer 360, and fraud detection at scale, combined with data streaming customer stories from Capital One, Singapore Stock Exchange, Citigroup, and many more. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.

General Trends in the Financial Services Industry

Researchers, analysts, startups, and last but not least, labs and the first real-world rollouts of traditional players show a few upcoming trends in the financial services industry:

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