Singapore, November 2025 — During the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) 2025, Sunline reinforced its growing influence across Asia and the Middle East, presenting a unified modernization blueprint built on core transformation, enterprise data governance, and AI-native operating models. Across a series of engagements with cloud and technology partners, consulting firms, and leading banks, Sunline emphasized that the next decade of modernization will be defined by how effectively banks integrate their core architecture, data fabric, and intelligence layer amid evolving regulatory and digital infrastructure demands.

Joint Dialogue with AWS and Accenture: Coexistence Architecture and Intelligence Integration

At SFF, Sunline partnered with AWS and Accenture to jointly host an executive roundtable, bringing together technology and transformation leaders from major banks in Singapore and Thailand. The discussion explored the practical realities of core modernization under regulatory constraints—from managing coexistence between legacy and modern platforms to ensuring reporting consistency across hybrid stacks and embedding data analytics and AI within mission-critical processes. 

Technical Vice President Charley Dou highlighted best practices from Sunline and AWS’s joint modernization initiatives, demonstrating how SunCBS achieves high availability and elastic scalability on AWS through Cell Deployment. He also introduced the 1P2C unified platform, which integrates real-time intelligence and AIStack to eliminate T+1 latency and strengthen enterprise-wide decisioning.

The open dialogues between banking leaders and technology experts surfaced the deeper complexities of progressive core renewal, particularly when institutions must run legacy and modern cores concurrently. Sunline explained how its coexistence architecture mitigates these challenges through a Multi-Core Routing Layer that maintains transactional integrity across both cores, and a Data Aggregation Layer that consolidates outputs into a unified, regulator-ready data view for downstream systems.

Engagement with MECA Markets on Data-Centric Transformation

Complementing our work in Southeast Asia, during this SFF, Sunline held strategic discussions with delegations from the Middle East and Central Asia (MECA), where national fintech agendas and supervisory frameworks are accelerating demand for core renewal and enterprise-wide data modernization.

Conversations focused on core modernization pathways, AI-ready data foundations, data lineage and governance, and operational resilience - critical priorities for financial institutions navigating regulatory change and expanding cross-border digital services. These exchanges reinforced Sunline’s growing role in helping MECA institutions transition toward scalable, data-driven, and intelligence-centered operating models capable of supporting open banking, instant payments, and future-ready digital ecosystems.

Setting the Strategic Direction for Next-Generation Core Platforms

As part of Huawei’s flagship programme at SFF, Sunline was invited to deliver a keynote on the architectural evolution of next-generation core banking systems. The session underscored the industry’s steady shift toward composable, cloud-aligned, and intelligence-ready core platforms that support progressive modernization and heightened regulatory resilience.

Liang YanSui, Senior Vice President of Solutions at Sunline, outlined how Service Mesh–based traffic governance, domain-driven Cell Deployment, elastic scalability, and real-time data orchestration are becoming foundational design patterns for modern core systems. These capabilities enable banks to decouple services, enhance observability, and safeguard transactional stability throughout their transformation journey.

Liang further mentioned Sunline’s 1P2C modernization pathway, which leverages a unified orchestration layer to allow legacy and modern cores to operate in parallel. Supported by Service Mesh and Cell-based execution units, this model provides a controlled, low-risk route toward large-scale modernization, ensuring continuity, data integrity, and supervisory transparency throughout migration.

Looking Forward

Sunline’s engagements throughout SFF illustrate a coherent modernization vision in which the core, data governance, and intelligence architecture advance as a unified capability. By aligning this framework with regulatory expectations, banking priorities, and regional digital infrastructure strategies, Sunline is helping shape a new generation of financial systems that are modular, transparent, and intelligence-driven.

Looking forward, Sunline envisions a future where the core evolves into a real-time intelligence engine, where data governance functions as a dynamic control layer, and where AI is embedded across the workflows that define customer experience, risk management, and operational performance.