Case Study: Ashur International Bank achieves rapid digital transformation and fast ROI with Nutanix

Ashur International Bank Partners with Nutanix and Red Hat to Lead Digital Banking Revolution in Iraq

Ashur International Bank, a leading financial institution in Iraq, embarked on a five-year digital transformation to deliver 24x7 self-service, AI kiosks, voice biometrics and other cloud-native services. Growth was hampered by legacy, point-to-point infrastructure and regulatory limits on public cloud, so the bank needed a secure, high-performance private cloud to move to microservices, APIs and containerized applications.

Guided by a local partner, Ashur deployed Red Hat OpenShift on Nutanix Enterprise Private Cloud, completing setup in three weeks and migrating core banking and middleware without latency issues. The solution delivered rapid ROI and reduced TCO, cut operational overheads, accelerated digitalization, and freed the IT team to innovate—enabling projects like a Smart Payments module with voice biometrics and NLP and plans to replicate the architecture for the group in Turkey.

Ashur International Bank

Bashar Al-otaibi

Head of Digital Transformation