BrainBlog for BMC by Eric newcomer
The modern mainframe is foundational to strategic banking and finance projects, including API-first banking as a service, open banking, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model training, and embedded finance opportunities.
Mainframe applications operate core mission-critical applications for leading financial services firms, such as core banking, claims processing, and payment processing. Such applications support the global economy.
Recent advances in mainframe hardware and software bring the platform into the 21st century, making it easier than ever to include mainframes in strategic IT projects and simplify their operation.
Mainframe managed data is also a critical source for a growing number of banking and finance GenAI applications, such as customer service, sales and marketing, fraud detection, cybersecurity, and regulatory reporting. Mainframe data from mission critical applications is a veritable goldmine for LLM training purposes.
The 2025 BMC Mainframe Survey shows that a majority of financial services organizations continue to run mission-critical applications on mainframes and continue to invest in those applications with the goal of modernizing and supporting new initiatives.
