Test Automation isn’t a new term, however in recent times, with the push for digital transformation across industries, test automation has taken a pivotal stand. Enterprises now aim to get applications to market faster while providing the best-in-class customer experience.

The banking business is fast evolving, and individual banks that serve retail, commercial, small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMEs), or wealth management firms must make rapid changes to become “digital-first” enterprises. However, making such a transformation entails enormous risks. Banks that get digital transformation wrong risk damaging client relationships and losing market share to digital-only competitors who are more agile and technologically capable.

FinOps is a solution for controlling operational costs in a cloud environment and offers ways for teams to manage their cloud costs, wherein everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage. FinOps term is coined by combining Finance + DevOps. It’s an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice. In practice, FinOps means establishing performance indicators on an organization’s cloud costs based on service, business unit, environment, etc.

Digital banking involves the digitization of all traditional banking products, processes, and activities to serve customers through online channels. Banking that is done through the digital platform without any paperwork like account opening forms, cheques, pay-in slips, and so on is referred to as digital banking. It relies on high-level process automation, web-based services, and APIs to provide banks and their customers with high levels of cost efficiency, security, and flexibility.

Blockchain technology (within the broader distributed ledger umbrella) has received a lot of eyeballs over the last decade, moving beyond the admiration of niche cryptocurrency fanatics and into the mainstream conversation of experts and investors, especially in the banking and financial services space.

You have just arrived at your favorite holiday destination and reached the hotel reception on a busy morning. It shouldn’t matter to you today if the hotel reception is crowded or there is no one available to help you with check-in. You will directly walk over to the self-service kiosk, enter your booking details, and scan your passport. The check-in process is completed in no time and you are provided with your room details. The kiosk even vends out your swipe card!