Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 111 | Page 14

Tadele Alemu, Director, IT Infrastructure Management, Tsedey Bank

From microfinance to modern banking Tsedey Bank scaled nationally with Nutanix

As financial institutions modernise to meet growing digital demand, building a scalable and resilient technology foundation is critical to enabling growth and improving customer access. Tadele Alemu, Director, IT Infrastructure Management, Tsedey Bank, tells us how a cloud-first, hyperconverged platform has enabled the bank to centralise operations, scale rapidly and deliver seamless digital banking services across Ethiopia while maintaining strong compliance and operational efficiency. sedey Bank modernises from

T microfinance to commercial banking with a hyperconverged platform that delivers simplicity, scale and performance.

After nearly 25 years of operating as a microfinance institution, Tsedey Bank embarked on a transformative journey to become a fully licensed commercial bank in Ethiopia. With this transition came the opportunity to rethink how the bank operated from the ground up, unencumbered by legacy systems.
Instead of patching together old systems, Tsedey Bank built an all-new banking technology stack
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