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Pradeep Dhananjaya

Author: Pradeep Dhananjaya

Pradeep Dhananjaya is a Banking Specialist Solutions Architect in the Worldwide Financial Services industry group at AWS. He spends much of his time working with fintechs and traditional banks solving for their business problems with technology. Prior to joining AWS, Pradeep spent more than a decade building technology solutions at JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley.

Digital Transformation of Treasury Customer Servicing

According to one McKinsey Report, cash forecasting is cited among the most inefficient processes by small and large organizations alike. In turn, CFOs are seeking partners to help them navigate from reporting to predicting. Although corporate treasurers are challenged to achieve these efficiencies due to paper-based process (e.g., invoicing, wet signatures) and a lack of […]

Banking Trends 2022: Cyber vault and Ransomware

Ransomware, a malicious software that is designed to disrupt, damage, and/or gain unauthorized access to a computer system and its data, has been on the rise. As per Sophos, 34% of financial services organizations that were surveyed indicated that they had been hit by ransomware in 2020. Moreover, 51% of those attacks succeeded in encrypting […]

Banking Trends 2022: Banking evolution with Open Finance

Over the past year the industry has accelerated in an ecosystem approach to banking, and more broadly with financial services. Accenture estimates $416b in banking revenues is at stake as we shift to an open data economy. Although banks embarked on this journey with Open Banking as a catalyst, many have embraced the augmentation of […]

Banking Trends 2022: Transforming Customer Experience

Customer habits have been changing over the last decade, with customers expecting frictionless and instant access to their banking needs. Banking customers have prioritized digital self-service via mobile and web over branch or phone banking, with the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerating this trend. Although digital channels are rising in importance, the ability to converge channels […]

Building a core banking system with Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

Background on core banking systems Banks around the world rely on core banking systems as their system of record (SoR). A core banking system includes a ledger for all money movement transactions, organized into accounts with computed balances, along with the relevant business logic and workflows for each product. The transactions in the ledger are […]