Core Banking and choosing the right solution
 Imagine what banks looked like before 1970. Long queues and  particularly long waiting period for just about any transaction was  normal. People were customers of a branch and not really a parent bank.  All transactions could be performed at your particular branch only. Any  entry only reflected after more than 24 hours as information went to  data centers in batches at the end of the working day. However, over the  next 40 years most banks chose to create a Centralized Online Real-time  Exchange or Environment (CORE) to manage their operations, thus giving  rise to Core Banking. In India alone, the number of public sector bank  branches with core banking implementation went from 79.4% in March 2009  to 90% in March 2010. All over the world, the numbers are closing in on  cent per cent.       According to US-based research and  advisory firm Gartner, core banking system (CBS) is basically a back-end  system that performs banking transactions on a daily basis and updates  accounts and ...