Everest Group's Top 50™ Core Banking Technology Providers 2026 ranking assessed 50 vendors across revenue, client footprint, module coverage, and AI investment, drawing on analysis of 280+ modernization deals completed between 2022 and 2025. In this webinar, Kriti Gupta, Practice Director at Everest Group, shares the key findings from Everest Group's research, walks through the methodology, and what the rankings reveal about which modernization approaches are gaining ground, including how to apply the ranking criteria to your own vendor evaluation. Andrew Beatty, Head of Global Cores at FIS, brings the practitioner view: where these trends play out inside real institutions, what banks consistently underestimate when evaluating core platforms, and how FIS built its portfolio to support incremental transformation.
Attendees will leave with a concrete picture of how the core banking market is moving, what the Everest evaluation criteria measure, and a framework for strengthening their own modernization and evaluation decisions.
Key Takeaways:
- How Everest Group constructed the Top 50™ ranking, why revenue and client footprint carry 50% of the composite score, and how the remaining weight is distributed across module coverage, cloud and SaaS investment, and AI advancement
- What 280+ modernization deals completed between 2022 and 2025 reveal about where banks in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe are directing investment, and which architectural approaches dominate
- Why incremental, modular modernization has become the default path, not because full replacement is impossible, but because the deal data shows most banks aren't doing it that way
- Where AI is running inside core banking environments today, including fraud detection, onboarding automation, pricing, and product lifecycle management, versus where it remains aspirational
- What FIS built across Modern Banking Platform, Profile, Systematics, IBS, and HORIZON to place first across all four ranking parameters, and what that tells you about what the market is rewarding