Karachi, October 28, 2020: RapidCompute, Pakistan’s largest local cloud service provider, announced the formal launch of its Cloud Services designed especially for the Banking Sector and Financial Institutions.
The company has established dedicated datacenters for banking operations with the highest level of security and compliance checks, keeping in mind all legal and policy requirements by the State Bank of Pakistan and other entities in light of the recent policy.
To make it a true Banking Cloud, they have also partnered with leading local and global providers of banking solutions and have setup locally hosted platforms that are ready for use by banks and FIs.
Over the years, RapidCompute has built strategic partnerships to create an environment with all related service setups for Banks and Financial Institutions that truly make it the first Banking Cloud in Pakistan. Some of the services currently available for banks on the RapidCompute cloud are Cloud based AML, AFL/FMS, payment switch and card management systems, SIEM and SOC, Threat Intel, DDoS and Threat mitigation, DR as a Service (DRaaS) and test beds and sandbox environments.
Mr. Imran Khan, Founder and MD RapidCompute said “The banking sector has changed significantly in the last two decades, with consumers demanding the latest technologies. To truly achieve digital transformation, banks need a business model that can offer effective collaboration, innovative customer experiences and faster time to market- all of which our cloud offers.
RapidCompute has been helping the financial sector in digital transformation since more than half a decade through its services on the cloud and its experience with scalable deployments. This is why we felt it important to partner with leading local and global players of banking solutions and work towards providing a locally hosted platform for them that also takes care of the all the data protection considerations.”
Banks in Pakistan traditionally rely on legacy systems and have been reluctant to change their IT infrastructure and embrace digital transformation. Up until recently, there was no formal policy in place clearly defining what cloud-based outsourcing could be undertaken by banks. However, a recent circular released by the SBP outlines that all non-core operations and business support processes can be hosted on cloud providers that meet SBP’s list of compliance requirements.
All of these services and more make it very convenient for banks and FIs to quickly and efficiently take advantage of the cloud policy and start digitizing the banking landscape with a local reliable cloud service provider.
