Case Study: Forcht Bank achieves resilient, secure, and compliant banking operations with Flexential colocation and interconnection

Delivering a “Happier Banking Experience” for Kentuckians

Forcht Bank, a community bank with 26 branches across Kentucky and Cincinnati, roughly $1B in assets and recognized as one of Kentucky’s top banks, wanted to stop managing its own data centers so it could focus on delivering a “happier banking experience.” The bank needed a partner that could meet strict regulatory, availability and security requirements while freeing internal IT to concentrate on customer-facing initiatives.

Flexential provided colocation, interconnection and data protection services—offering 2N UPS and N+1 cooling, a 100% SLA, 24/7 security with dual‑factor and biometric access, audit-ready compliance (PCI, SOC, HIPAA, ISO 27001/SSAE 18), a private 100 Gbps backbone, Cloud Fabric connectivity to Azure and DDoS protections. The move delivered greater resiliency and disaster recovery, uninterrupted customer access to accounts, an improved compliance posture and the ability for Forcht’s lean IT team to devote more time to banking services, with a second data center migration planned.

Forcht Bank

Chip Clements

Executive Vice President, IT & Technology