Powering Payment Innovation: FTM, IBM Power, and Red Hat OpenShift

In this Coffee Break explore how IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) and IBM Power systems, in collaboration with Red Hat OpenShift, are modernizing payment processing. We'll highlight how FTM serves as a universal payments hub supporting high-performance, secure, and cloud-agnostic operations and underscores how Red Hat technologies enable hybrid cloud flexibility and future-proof architectures to meet evolving regulatory and customer demands. Key Takeaways: - FTM as a payments hub: Supports orchestration, clearing, and settlement for global payment networks including ACH, Fedwire, SEPA, and instant payments. - Hybrid cloud flexibility: Red Hat OpenShift enables FTM deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, and IBM Power. - IBM Power + OpenShift benefits: Enhanced performance, container density, and quantum-safe security with Power systems. - Industry-ready modernization: FTM is advancing with ISO 20022 adoption, API-first development, UI modernization, and resilient, high-availability architecture. - AI and automation: IBM is introducing AI assistants for system insight and integrating automation to support straight-through processing and exception management.