Russell Gee is a Senior Solution Architect at GridGain Systems, providing customers with innovative solutions to complex requirements. Russell has over 20 years of experience working with big data for large blue-chip companies including JP Morgan, PNC Bank, and Visa. With his experience, Russell has become an expert in design and optimization for multiple databases and big data technologies.
Cross-border payments are financial transactions requiring a transfer of funds across international borders, whether purchasing goods directly from a company in another country, sending money to a friend abroad, or paying an international supplier for industrial goods. These transfers often require currency conversion, adhering to different regulatory frameworks, and working through different…
Open banking is a simple, secure way to help consumers and businesses to move, manage and make more use of money. Every time you make a digital payment – for example, using Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Venmo or other similar apps – to pay for a product or service, you’re relying on the new “open banking” framework to initiate an instant account-to-account (A2A) transfer to move money directly from…

The demand for instant account-to-account (A2A) transfers is growing rapidly. Unlike the processing of credit cards and bank checks, A2A is a direct transfer of funds from one account to another, whether person to person, person to business, or business to business. Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Venmo and other similar apps are examples of leveraging open banking to enable A2A transfers. The key…

In today's data-driven world, applications need to be lightning-fast. Users crave instant gratification, and businesses require real-time insights to make informed decisions. Traditional databases, while reliable, can struggle to keep pace with the ever-increasing demands of modern applications. Enter GridGain and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a powerful duo that empowers you to build and…

In today's fast-paced business environment, it’s crucial to gain a competitive edge by quickly extracting meaningful insights from diverse datasets. It is also vitally important to be responsive to changing data as soon as possible. These requirements demand a data solution that is flexible and performant. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data format, which supports unstructured or semi-…