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IT Transformation and Optimization for Banking Organizations

Today’s bank IT departments are forced to do more with less. Maintaining a sophisticated IT environment and multiple data centers is costly. In addition, compliance with government regulations and the delivery of new products and technologies, such as for mobile access, further strain already tight budgets.

F5 solutions create a unified, agile IT infrastructure that ensures maximum availability, while efficiently using data center investments and resources. By taking advantage of an F5® Application Delivery Controller (ADC) platform for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) offload, application visibility, reporting, and virtualization, banks can create a simplified, scalable infrastructure that adapts to changing demands. Your organization can realize lower costs in IT infrastructure and management, while still providing the highest quality of service for customers.

Key benefitsBoost mission-critical application and core banking system uptime Drive availability, reliability, failover, and system recovery with 99.999 percent uptime.

Scale globally Automatically direct users to the closest or best-performing data center, and synchronize data centers with optimized wide area replication.

Consolidate IT infrastructure Virtualize and manage fewer systems while offloading intensive operations, to control expenses.

Accelerate product innovation Provide rapid orchestration and support for integrated customer touch points while lowering costs.

Meet regulatory requirements Achieve compliance with high speed logging, identity and access management, and optimization of data storage, back up, and recovery.

“ We achieved compliance with PCI using BIG-IP ASM. We also can have active/active data centers using BIG-IP GTM and BIG-IP LTM.”

IT Manager, Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company TVID: 71E-AA5-EE3

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Products

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Operational Risk Management and Security for Banks

Resilient Application Performance and Optimization for Banking Systems

Secure Mobile Banking Access Anywhere, Anytime

Get More Out of Your IT Investment

Whether you need to integrate acquisitions or quickly bring new products to market, success depends on a flexible IT architecture. F5® solutions help your organization adapt to business needs while easily meeting industry data security standards and regulatory requirements.

BIG-IP products provide strategic points of control throughout the IT infrastructure, reducing complexity while maximizing existing technology investments and optimizing interactions across the network for lower capital and operational costs. Built-in disaster recovery, rapid failover, and high availability capabilities ensure business continuity. And when your business expands, F5 solutions enable server virtualization and cloud integration for cost-efficient growth.

To find out how F5 financial services solutions can help your business, visit the

Financial Services Solutions page on f5.com.

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F5 provides a strategic point of control at every layer of the banking infrastructure.

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Fraud Detection

Logs Audit

Logging andAuditing

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Channels

Presentation Layer

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Branch Call Center

Branch

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Online/Mobile

Core Systems Layer

Loans Deposits

Consumer Services

Payments Debit Credit

Cards Accounts

Account Management

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Data Management Layer

Message Brokers

Queues Transaction/TranslationGateway

Databaseof Record

Auxiliary Databases

Client Partner Market

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Governance, Risk,and Compliance

Identity and ServiceManagement

Reputation DNS

Policies

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Identity

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