Beyond the Core: Modernizing Payments with Sidecar Cloud Platforms

Learn how to modernize payments and accelerate innovation with agile, cloud-based platforms running alongside legacy cores.

Legacy cores, once the backbone of operations, now limit speed and flexibility. This webinar reveals how leading community banks are taking control of their future by going “core-free,” adding sidecar cloud platforms for money movement that let them innovate without waiting for their core provider to catch up.

This session will show banking leaders how to overcome the strategic, operational, and technological barriers they face when modernizing their core infrastructure. You’ll see how community banking providers tackle the real-world challenges of balancing compliance and innovation amid limited budgets, resources, and slow-moving vendors.

This webinar will teach banking executives:

  • How to deliver instant, digital-first experiences that rival fintechs without replacing your core
  • What it means to go “core-free”, and why it’s a smarter, lower-risk alternative to full core replacement
  • Why “sidecar cores” are the answer for modernizing payments
  • How to build a scalable, future-ready foundation for AI, embedded banking, FedNow and RTP services
  • Who is leading the way with “sidecar cores,” and the ROI they are seeing

Webinar Presenters:

  • Shawn Main, Chief Business Architect at Vantage Bank
  • Sam Grainger, Senior Account Executive at Finzly
  • Jim Marous, Content Creator and Banking Industry Influencer
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