Financial services firm Finastra is bringing payments to Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, which will allow clients to access digital payment solutions via the cloud.

Bringing payments to the Azure cloud will also enable banks and other financial service clients to more quickly make use of new upgrades or products; the cloud will also provide “streamlined onboarding” for these banks.

This marks an expansion of Finastra’s 2016 partnership with Microsoft, when the firm launched a lending oversight solution on Azure. Integrating its payment solutions into the cloud will better serve the business and bank clients of both companies, according to today’s announcement.

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