Red Hat Advance Hybrid
“Can Red Hat's hybrid cloud infrastructure (OpenShift) become the default regulated-workload platform for financial institutions modernizing payments, lending, and AI decisioning?”
Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company, best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift (Kubernetes-based container platform). Its 'Advance Hybrid' offering refers to its hybrid cloud solutions tailored for financial institutions — enabling banks and fintechs to run regulated workloads on-premise while integrating with public cloud services. Acquired by IBM in 2019, Red Hat has increasingly positioned OpenShift and its hybrid cloud stack as infrastructure for financial services modernization, including payments platform modernization and AI-driven lending decisioning. The company is not itself an embedded finance vendor but provides the infrastructure layer upon which financial institutions build embedded finance products.