{"id":100696,"date":"2019-09-23T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=434498"},"modified":"2019-09-23T13:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:53:36","slug":"sibos-2019-empowering-financial-services-to-achieve-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/sibos-2019-empowering-financial-services-to-achieve-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibos 2019: Empowering financial services to achieve more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s a transformative time for the financial services industry. In the fast-changing, tech-driven world banks now live in, they recognize that technology can play a role in helping them meet both their customers\u2019 expectations and challenging regulatory requirements. Coming to Microsoft from that world myself just two weeks ago, I\u2019m now leading the team responsible for helping our customers do just that \u2013 regardless of where they are in their transformation journey.<\/p>\n

After 20 years in financial services, I\u2019ve seen the impact technology can have, and recognize we have been approaching an inflection point for some time \u2013 and are at the tipping point.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re approaching the close of a decade, and the industry has a tremendous opportunity to accelerate use of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) as a catalyst to improve competitiveness, drive growth, elevate customer experiences and keep ahead of changing regulations and cybersecurity threats.<\/p>\n

To take full advantage of what Sibos 2019<\/a> describes as a hyper-connected world, more banks are making broader cloud platform choices \u2013 moving beyond infrastructure services \u2013 and extending their cloud investment to productivity, data and AI, and agile customer relationship management services.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re making this platform decision to seize the opportunity at hand and evolve to meet the rapidly changing needs and expectations of customers. They recognize technology can help them create the new business models required \u2013 even integrate past, present and future.<\/p>\n

As we look ahead, key to this will be the ability for financial organizations to:<\/p>\n