Microsoft Partner With Finstra To Innovate Trade Platforms

Finastra has announced a multi-year global partnership with Microsoft, primarily emphasizing on modernizing its trade platform. This alliance builds upon the present offering of Finastra’s Trade Innovation in the cloud.

Banks will gain improved scalability, flexibility, and agility by using Microsoft Azure to deliver the full range of Trade Innovation through a complete microservices architecture. This will enable them to maintain excellent customer service quality as they migrate.

The Companies Want Improve Supply Chain Finance Activities

Financial institutions must adjust to the evolving expectations of corporate customers. The plan is to deliver a smooth transactional experience across their trade finance and supply chain finance activities, aligning with the principles of open finance.

FusionFabric.cloud will let customers tap into a dynamic digital trade ecosystem, facilitating the digital revolution of the entire transaction process. It will expand the range of open APIs offered through Finastra’s open innovation platform and Trade Innovation,

The Executive Vice President for Lending at Finastra, Isabel Fernandez, commented on the partnership. He highlighted that the Collaboration is part of a strategic plan to advance the digital transformation of financial services and assist customers in embracing openness.

Customers are keen on modernizing their trade finance and supply chain solutions by leveraging the newest innovations through industry partnerships. This agreement will provide existing and new customers greater flexibility to collaborate, connect, and adapt to changing customer demands and regulatory changes.

Both Parties Will Leverage Their Technologies

Corporate Vice President for Worldwide Financial Services at Microsoft, Bill Borden, also expressed enthusiasm for strengthening the partnership with Finastra. He said the partnership will assist banks in their efforts to modernize the trade process.

By leveraging the competence of Finastra’s Trade Innovation platform and FusionFabric.cloud, along with the abilities of Microsoft Azure and advancements in data and AI, the company aims to assist financial institutions in many aspects. These include transforming their operations at scale, enhancing customer engagement, increasing efficiencies, and speeding up innovations.

Finastra Trade Innovation has again been acknowledged as Best in Class in the Aite Matrix of Trade Finance Software (Feb 2023) from Datos Insights.

According to Enrico Camerinrlli, the Strategic Advisor at Datos Insights, the shift away from manual and paper-based trade finance, the development of supply chain finance, and the emergence of fintech players are prompting banks to embrace data analytics, artificial intelligence, and API-based open banking.

Banks require open and modern systems and support from leaders in this field to accomplish this transformation. The partners hope to achieve this through their collaborative efforts.