Financial Services Operations Core release notes

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Financial Services Operations Core Release Notes

    The ServiceNow® Financial Services Operations Core application enables financial institutions to create adaptable data structures tailored to their operational needs. The Zurich release introduces enhancements that improve workflow management and security for payment card data across its life cycle.

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    Key Features

    • Payment Card Application: Stores comprehensive details of physical payment cards, supporting multiple card types (credit and debit) and tokenized values for sensitive information like the primary account number (PAN).
    • Deny-Unless ACL: Implements Deny-Unless access control lists on FSO tables to restrict access for non-authenticated users, ensuring that only authenticated users can perform actions like read, write, delete, or create.
    • Coral Theme: The default theme for new portal, web, and mobile experiences, featuring a fresh design and an optional dark theme to enhance user experience.
    • New Field Addition: The Payment Card field is now included in the Financial transaction table to support the Payment Card application.

    Key Outcomes

    By leveraging the updates in the Zurich release, ServiceNow customers can enhance their financial operations through improved payment card data management, increased security measures, and a modernized user interface that supports better accessibility and user experience. Activation of the Financial Services Operations Core can be done through the ServiceNow Store, ensuring easy access to these functionalities.

    The ServiceNow® Financial Services Operations Core application provides a data model that enables financial institutions to create flexible data structures that meet their business needs. Financial Services Operations Core was enhanced and updated in the Zurich release.

    Financial Services Operations Core highlights for the Zurich release

    • Leverage a payment card data model application in FSO workflows, such as disputes, which can be used across an entire card life cycle, from issuance to servicing.
    • Support multiple payment card types, including credit and debit cards.

    See Payment card for more information.

    Important:
    Financial Services Operations Core is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

    New in the Zurich release

    Payment card application
    Store the details of physical payment cards across the entire card life cycle, from issuance to servicing. You can also store tokenized values for sensitive data, such as the primary account number (PAN).
    Deny-Unless ACL
    Use Deny-Unless access control lists (ACLs) on FSO tables for non-authenticated users, such as users with public roles. With this minimum-security setting, only your authenticated users can read, write, delete, or create actions on these tables. For more information about the Deny-Unless ACLs, see the Deny-Unless ACL topic in the ServiceNow® Platform Security documentation.

    UI Changes

    Coral theme
    Coral is now the default theme for new portal, web, and mobile experiences with Next Experience or Core UI enabled. This theme provides a fresh look and feel, featuring brand-neutral illustrations to enhance your user experience. A dark theme option is available for web and mobile experiences.

    Changed in this release

    Added field to Financial transaction table
    Added the Payment Card field to the Financial transaction [sn_bom_transaction] table as part of the Payment card application.

    Activation information

    Install Financial Services Operations Core by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

    Accessibility information

    Dark theme
    The new Coral theme includes a dark theme option for web and mobile experiences. This option is commonly used to alleviate eye strain and improve readability.