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Is Your Back Office Ready for the Future?

Over 90% of banks say digital transformation is a “high” priority, less than 10% believe their current core can support their goals.

Published on October 2025 in Digital Transformation

FEATURING: Sandeep Lalwani, Head of UST FinX, and Barry O’Connell, Managing Director, Americas for Thought Machine

The future of banking isn’t coming – it’s already here. And yet, a staggering 46% of retail financial institutions admit they’re either early in their digital transformation journey or still in planning stages.

At the heart of this inertia lies a familiar bottleneck: legacy core systems. While over 90% of banks surveyed this year say digital transformation is either a “critical” or “high” priority, less than 10% believe their current core can fully support their goals.

In this episode of Banking Transformed, I’m joined by Sandeep Lalwani, Head of UST FinX, and Barry O’Connell, Managing Director, Americas for Thought Machine. Together, we examine the real-world consequences of delayed modernization – from constrained innovation to a stunted customer experience – and explore how a modular, coexistence-based core transformation can flip the script.

This is the first episode in a new series, “Building the Future-Ready Bank”, sponsored by UST FinX.

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