Cloud banking: More than just a CIO conversation. by Deloitte

Cloud banking: More than just a CIO conversation. by Deloitte

Cloud banking: More than just a CIO conversation

What will financial services of the future look like with cloud?

Cloud computing is moving to the forefront as a focus for IT leaders, C-suite executives, and board members. Learn how cloud can be a catalyst for enterprise business transformation—and a potential game-changer for how financial services organizations will operate in the future.

 

Leveraging the cloud to create new business frontiers

The bank of 2030 will look very different from today. Facing changing consumer expectations, emerging technologies, and alternative business models, banks need to start putting strategies in place now to help them prepare for this future. An important indicator of the shifting landscape? Cloud computing is moving to the forefront as a focus for the chief information officer, C-suite executives, and board members.

Banking and capital markets leaders increasingly recognize that cloud is more than a technology; it is a destination for banks and other financial services firms to store data and applications and access advanced software applications via the internet.

The leading public cloud providers offer an array of innovative products-as-a-service that can be accessed on their platforms and help banks implement business and operating models to improve revenue generation, increase customer insights, contain costs, deliver market-relevant products quickly and efficiently, and help monetize enterprise data assets. The cloud also offers a huge opportunity to synchronize the enterprise; to break down operational and data silos across risk, finance, regulatory, customer support, and more. Once massive data sets are combined in one place, the organization can apply advanced analytics for integrated insights.

After years of focusing on the technology’s value as a cheaper, faster, and more “elastic” alternative to on-premise data storage, bank leaders are considering how they can leverage the cloud in three areas “above the line” to create new business frontiers and in three areas “below the line” to optimize the organization. Applying cloud technology in these six areas may help banks drive improved business performance and shareholder returns.