Capgemini helps banks modernize faster with a blueprint based on Red Hat OpenShift

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner. With a strong heritage of nearly 60 years, Capgemini delivers end-to-end services and solutions with deep industry expertise and a broad partner ecosystem, using its capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering, and business operations to deliver tangible business value. 

For more than three decades, Capgemini has modernized core banking platforms, delivering more than 125 implementations worldwide. In recognition of this expertise, Capgemini was named the Hybrid Cloud Everywhere Partner of the Year in the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards. 

To support financial institutions in achieving their modernization goals, Capgemini established a proven blueprint based on Red Hat® OpenShift®. Already deployed across multiple banks, the model helps increase efficiency with up to 85% faster provisioning and reduced operational costs, while simplifying compliance with regulatory requirements. Using Capgemini’s blueprint, banks can rapidly benefit from a scalable, agile environment that strengthens greater resilience and accelerates innovation. 

Rising customer expectations, stricter regulatory requirements and increasing operational costs are placing banks under growing pressure. Many financial institutions across the globe are still constrained by traditional, monolithic systems that struggle to integrate with modern digital platforms, scale in line with growth ambitions, or keep pace with rapid digital innovation. These limitations make it more difficult to respond to market changes, launch timely new offerings, and deliver the consistent experiences that customers now expect.

Across the financial services industry, organizations are facing similar challenges. To truly modernize, banks need cloud-native capabilities that let them scale effectively, innovate faster, and operate with greater agility. As a result, many banks are rethinking their technology foundations to support long-term growth and resilience.

Capgemini has established a unified, future-ready blueprint for modernization in the financial services industry, built on Red Hat OpenShift and a containerized operating model. Capgemini chose Red Hat OpenShift for its security-focused posture, regulatory readiness, and open source flexibility, serving as the hybrid cloud backbone across both on-premise datacenters and public cloud environments within Capgemini’s blueprint.

By combining its deep core banking expertise with the specialized capabilities of its dedicated Red Hat Center of Excellence, Capgemini enables banks to containerize and modernize core banking platforms more efficiently. As part of the solution, Red Hat OpenShift integrates with tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities, and automated deployments. 

Capgemini has already worked with multiple banks to implement this model, helping them adopt a DevOps culture and transition toward a cloud-native approach to application development and modernization. “Based on OpenShift, our solution provides banks with a cloud-native, scalable, and future-ready architecture that serves as a model for modernization across regions and units,” said Ajay Walgude, VP, Head of IBM and Red Hat Hybrid Cloud CoE, Capgemini Financial Services.