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Kyndryl Report: As AI broadens modernization agenda, leaders prioritize business outcomes over replacing legacy systems
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1 de out. de 2026
LONDON, October 15, 2026 — CLS, a financial market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, and Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced the successful completion of CLS’s migration to a new data center environment.
The migration marks a significant milestone in CLS’s multi-year technology modernization program, providing a stronger foundation for the continued delivery of its critical market infrastructure. The new technology environment strengthens the security, resilience and operational flexibility of CLS’s services while supporting future growth and evolving market and business requirements.
The migration program involved extensive planning and rigorous validation at every stage to help ensure the new environment meets the high standards required of a systemically important financial market infrastructure.
“As a critical financial market infrastructure, resilience is fundamental to everything we do,” said Tom Barkhuff, Chief Technology Officer, CLS. “Completing this milestone further strengthens the foundation of our services and positions us to continue delivering the operational resilience, security and reliability our settlement members expect. This achievement also reflects the strength of our collaboration with Kyndryl throughout the program.”
“It is an honor that CLS has this level of trust in our technical expertise, operational discipline and delivery capabilities,” said Walter Huber, Managing Partner, Kyndryl. “The completion of this major milestone in CLS’s modernization journey is truly a one-team celebration. Maintaining service quality, cyber resilience and operational reliability remains a top priority in today’s cyberthreat environment.”
CLS is trusted by thousands of financial organizations within the global foreign exchange (FX) ecosystem. Its payment-versus-payment settlement system, CLSSettlement, helps reduce systemic risk by supporting the settlement of the world’s most actively traded currencies. More than 75 of the world’s leading financial institutions are CLS settlement members, and over 38,000 additional organizations use its services.
Kyndryl’s decades of experience delivering infrastructure services, combined with its deep financial services industry expertise in security and resiliency, continue to provide CLS with a modernized operational foundation to support future business requirements.
About CLS
Trusted by thousands of counterparties within the global FX ecosystem, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost-effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of payments flow through our systems each day. Created by the market for the market, our unrivaled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. Our settlement services, in combination with our suite of complementary products, enable you to manage your risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle, whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market. For more information, please visit www.cls-group.com.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
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