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JBS has successfully executed a live parallel data center migration for 1LINK (Pvt) Limited, Pakistan’s premier payment services provider — completing the project one week ahead of schedule with zero service disruption. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dcS43cNP State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) | Ministry of IT and Telecommunication Pakistan | Pakistan Fintech Association #JBS #1LINK #DataCenterMigration #DigitalPayments #Fintech #ITInfrastructure #ZeroDowntime #TechLeadership #OperationalResilience #SmartPakistan

Brand new case study: Powering secure data migration for a leading finance organisation Our latest case study explains how we helped a leading bank with the migration and replication of sensitive banking data to a new, high-end data centre environment. In partnership with a System Integrator and a leading Data Centre Provider, we delivered a Private Connect MOFN solution - a dedicated, secure private network designed for the most demanding requirements. The collaboration highlights how our expertise, combined with trusted partners, can solve complex data migration and replication challenges for highly regulated industries. Read the full case study here: https://eun.io/42DK0dm

🔐 𝗜𝗕𝗠 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽 𝗩𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 Indian banks are rapidly moving toward 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 – UPI, NEFT, RTGS, APIs, fintech integrations, and mobile banking portals. But behind the scenes, managing secrets, credentials, and certificates often remains manual, fragmented, and risky. In this blog, we explore how 𝗜𝗕𝗠 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽 𝗩𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 helps banks tackle these challenges across: ✅ Core Banking & Databases ✅ Digital Banking APIs ✅ Certificates for UPI & Payment Switches ✅ Third-Party & Regulatory Integrations (RBI, NPCI, UIDAI) ✅ Application Development (OpenShift, CI/CD) ✅ Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity IBM Vault ensures dynamic credentials, automated certificate rotation, secure key exchange, and centralized governance – enabling Indian banks to stay compliant, secure, and always-on. 👉 Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/gRDxeM42 #Pronteff #HashiCorpVault #BankingSecurity #IndianBanking #UPI #Fintech #DigitalBanking #CyberSecurity #SecretsManagement #RBICompliance #DevSecOps #CloudSecurity #OpenShift #CICD #DisasterRecovery

🔐 Strengthening Banking Security with Zero Trust Architecture and Oracle ZDLRA 🔐 In the banking sector, where protecting sensitive financial data and ensuring uninterrupted operations are paramount, traditional perimeter defenses are no longer enough. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) offers a robust security framework built on continuous verification and least privilege access—ideal for today’s complex, hybrid environments. Here’s how the 8 Pillars of Zero Trust Architecture align perfectly with Oracle ZDLRA to secure banking data and infrastructure: 1️⃣ User: Strong, multi-factor authentication limits access to authorized banking personnel only. 2️⃣ Device: Continuous device compliance checks protect bank endpoints and ATMs. 3️⃣ Network: Micro-segmentation limits lateral threat movement across banking networks. 4️⃣ Applications: Oracle’s secure database and application layers enforce dynamic access policies. 5️⃣ Data: Oracle ZDLRA ensures zero data loss with continuous data protection, backups, and automated recovery. 6️⃣ Visibility & Analytics: Real-time monitoring enables banks to detect anomalies and threats instantly, safeguarding customer transactions. 7️⃣ Orchestration & Automation: Automated policies streamline compliance, reduce manual errors, and expedite incident response. 8️⃣ Infrastructure: Oracle ZDLRA delivers a resilient, scalable platform to protect critical banking workloads and data—on-premises and in the cloud. By integrating ZTA principles with Oracle ZDLRA’s cutting-edge capabilities, banks can achieve a new level of data security and operational resilience—critical for regulatory compliance and customer trust. Ready to adopt a Zero Trust approach that safeguards your bank’s most valuable assets? Let’s explore how Oracle ZDLRA can be the cornerstone of your Zero Trust security strategy. #BankingSecurity #ZeroTrust #OracleZDLRA #DataProtection #Cybersecurity #FinancialServices #OracleCloud #Infosec #DigitalBanking #Compliance

Success Story: HA Drill 2025 – Strengthening System Resilience at Bank Jago In October 2025, Bank Jago successfully completed the High Availability (HA) Drill 2025, a regulatory requirement designed to test the reliability, availability, and recovery capability of our critical systems. This activity demonstrated our strong commitment to operational excellence and business continuity, ensuring that our digital banking services remain resilient and uninterrupted in any condition. The drill involved extensive testing across multiple key technology components that form the backbone of our digital ecosystem, including: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for container orchestration and workload redundancy, MongoDB with high-availability database replication across zones, Kafka for continuous and fault-tolerant message streaming, Elasticsearch for data indexing and real-time analytics, Redis as our high-speed caching layer, Tyk serving as the secure and scalable API Gateway, Forgerock for identity and access management, and CloudSQL supporting core banking and customer-facing applications. During the exercise, simulated disruptions were introduced to mimic real-world system failures. Despite these intentional interruptions, all components were able to recover automatically, maintaining zero downtime with RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) both recorded at 0 minutes. This outstanding result confirms that our systems are truly operating in High Availability mode, with seamless failover at both infrastructure and application levels. The success of HA Drill 2025 was the result of strong teamwork and coordination among various teams — infrastructure, application development, operations, and security — along with the valuable support of our technology partners. The dedication and collaboration of everyone involved ensured that the entire exercise ran smoothly and effectively. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in our ongoing journey to enhance system resilience and operational reliability. By achieving full HA capability across critical systems, Bank Jago reinforces its commitment to delivering secure, stable, and always-available digital banking services to customers and partners — no matter the challenge. “Our success in HA Drill 2025 is a testament to our readiness, collaboration, and continuous improvement mindset. It reflects our determination to build a robust digital banking ecosystem that customers can trust every single day.”

💳 ISO 8583 – Understanding Data Elements 65–128 (Secondary Bitmap) In ISO 8583, the Secondary Bitmap extends the flexibility of the standard by covering Data Elements (DE) 65–128. It only comes into play when the first bit of the Primary Bitmap is set to 1, signaling that more data fields are present. 🔹 What It Covers The Secondary Bitmap introduces advanced, optional, and specialized data elements. These support extended transaction details, security, and network operations. 🔹 Key Data Elements (65–128): 65. Extended Bitmap indicator 66. Settlement Code 67. Extended Payment Code 68. Receiving Institution Country Code 69. Settlement Institution Country Code 70. Network Management Information Code 71. Message Number 72. Last Message Number 73. Action Date 74. Credits Number 75. Credits Reversal Number 76. Debits Number 77. Debits Reversal Number 78. Transfer Number 79. Transfer Reversal Number 80. Inquiries Number 81. Authorizations Number 82. Credits Processing Fee Amount 83. Credits Transaction Fee Amount 84. Debits Processing Fee Amount 85. Debits Transaction Fee Amount 86. Credits Amount 87. Credits Reversal Amount 88. Debits Amount 89. Debits Reversal Amount 90. Original Data Elements 91. File Update Code 92. File Security Code 93. Response Indicator 94. Service Indicator 95. Replacement Amounts 96. Message Security Code 97. Amount, Net Settlement 98. Payee 99. Settlement Institution ID Code 100. Receiving Institution ID Code 101. File Name 102. Account Identification 1 103. Account Identification 2 104. Transaction Description 105–112. Reserved for ISO use 113–120. Reserved for National use 121–127. Reserved for Private use 105. Message Authentication Code (MAC) 🔹 Example in Action For a network management message (e.g., DE 70 set to “301” for key change), the Secondary Bitmap ensures proper routing and handling across systems. For reconciliation or settlement, fields like DE 97 (Net Settlement Amount) and DE 99 (Settlement Institution ID) are vital. 📌 Takeaway The Secondary Bitmap expands ISO 8583 to handle complex, high-volume, and specialized transactions — from settlements and reversals to network management operations — ensuring global interoperability in payments. #ISO8583 #Payments #FinTech #TransactionProcessing #BankingTechnology

Many finance leaders think of Host-to-Host (H2H) bank connections as a simple SFTP setup. But you can think of a H2H connection more like an iceberg... and like with most icebergs, 90% of the cost and complexity sit underneath the surface. That “simple £20k–£100k” project quickly becomes a £100k+ annual commitment, with costs hidden in file mapping efforts, compliance, monitoring, and endless updates. ⚠️ The biggest cost, though, is opportunity. Every hour spent maintaining your bank connections is an hour lost to the crucial work of driving finance transformation and running the business. The easier route? Partner with an H2H specialist with deep infrastructure knowledge and a full-service approach – for end-to-end connectivity that ensures your financial data is flowing. 👉 Read our whitepaper for the full iceberg breakdown of build vs. buy: https://okt.to/oanRSq #FinanceTransformation #Payments #BankConnectivity #hosttohost

In banking, security and compliance aren't optional — they’re mission-critical. That’s why leading financial institutions are turning to the Apexx Axessor IP: a network-connected safe lock solution built for today’s regulatory and operational demands. 🔐 Why Axessor IP? ✔️ Remote management of safes across all branches ✔️ Centralized user access control to reduce admin time ✔️ Built-in audit trails for full compliance visibility ✔️ Time-based access & dual authentication for enhanced control ✔️ Scalable architecture for growing networks Whether managing a few or a few 1,000 branches, the Axessor IP delivers the visibility, control, and security that modern banks require — with the flexibility to adapt as your institution evolves. 💼 Trusted by banks and financial institutions worldwide. Please reach out to me to learn more information on this convenient and secure lock technology. #BankingSecurity #AccessControl #BranchOperations #ApexxAxessorIP #BankingInnovation #SafeLockTechnology #Banks #CreditUnions #PhysicalSecurity #FinancialServices #dormakaba

SNB Working paper "SCION and cross-border payments: Enhancing security and compliance in distributed ledger networks"- Summary:"Cross-border payments remain expensive, slow, and opaque due to reliance on correspondent banking. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers a possible alternative, enabling peer-to-peer transactions at lower cost with greater speed, transparency, and resilience. However, DLT systems largely rely on the public Internet, which exposes them to network-based outages and attacks. SCION, a secure next-generation Internet architecture, can operate side-by-side with today's Internet to mitigate network-related risks. In addition to the security benefits, SCION also provides a novel approach to enforce regulatory compliance on a permissionless DLT with a governance model well-suited for multi-jurisdictional platforms. We present the first practical blueprint for deploying a DLT-based settlement system on SCION and demonstrate, through a simulation-based analysis of the real-world DLT system Sui, that SCION can mitigate more than half of routing-based network attacks, even when only partially adopted by DLT validators. Overall, SCION can provide a robust infrastructure foundation for DLT-based cross-border payment systems by enhancing their security, reliability, and regulatory compliance." https://lnkd.in/eDxVj5hW

Vendor risk isn’t a spreadsheet problem; it’s an operational one. For banks, insurers, retailers, pharma, telecom, and PSUs, the real challenge is catching fraud early while keeping onboarding fast. When checks are weak, friction rises, conflicts multiply, continuity breaks. When checks are strong, outcomes shift: faster onboarding, fewer disputes, cleaner vendor relationships. That’s where OnGrid helps. Centralize due diligence. Standardize decisions. Keep audit trails clean. Vendor risk, simplified. #OnGrid #DueDiligence #VendorRisk