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2017 , Finastra has grown to a company reporting US $ 1.9bn annual revenue , and employs over 10,000 people to serve 9,000 customers . Currently , 90 of the world ’ s top 100 banks use Finastra ’ s software solutions which span retail , corporate banking , trade finance and more . Each day , around 10 % of trade finance runs on Finastra software and it enables 175m + retail accounts . “ With the Fourth Industrial Revolution , we have evolved from a software company to a solutions company , and now we are moving towards our platform vision ,” says Gupta .

Now , the business is positioned to not only play a key role in the digital transformation of the finance sector , but also the open banking landscape and the move towards collaboration as a means of sparking innovation . “ Finastra truly believes the future of finance is open , and we can bring various people together in the ecosystem to collaborate together using our platform , FusionFabric . cloud ,” Gupta explains . FusionFabric . cloud is Finastra ’ s Platform-as-a-Service solution which enables financial

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