Capital markets firms’ reliance on customized, in-house legacy technologies is costing them, in an age where cloud-savvy competitors use technology to achieve game-changing Return on Equity (RoE). Accenture research shows that moving to as-a-service (aaS), cloud-based solutions is a logical route for investment banks to take now, before restless shareholders begin banging the drums.

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Capital markets firms’ reliance on customized,
in-house legacy technologies is costing them,
in an age where cloud savvy competitors use
technology to achieve game-changing Return
on Equity (RoE).
Given the competitive situation, moving to aaS,
cloud-based solutions is a logical route for
investment banks to take now, before restless
shareholders begin banging the drums.
Accenture research shows that
moving to as-a-Service (aaS),
cloud-based solutions could
earn large banks an average of
a 1—2% increase on RoE, the
equivalent of over $1 billion.
60% of capital markets
institutions say that cloud-
based entrants will challenge
traditional industry models.
FOR CORE BUSINESS FUNCTIONS ARE
NO LONGER WORTH THE COST

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Nine out of 10
investment banking
respondents agree or
strongly agree that
cloud helps
businesses stay at the
forefront of innovative
adoption.
In just three years,
digital leaders will
be more than 80%
in the cloud.
COMPETING
No one wants to compete against a cloud-based
competitor with legacy systems.
The playing field is far from even.
IN THE

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Getting the journey right involves a number of key activities:
Assess and define the
cloud strategy, including a
portfolio assessment of the processes,
applications and data suitable for
transition to a BPaaS/SaaS solution.
1.

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Define target cloud
architecture and requisite
target platforms, including
deciding on private platform and hyper-
scale cloud partners that will play within
your cloud ecosystem.
2.
Getting the journey right involves a number of key activities:

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Future-proof applications
by migrating strategic
proprietary applications
from legacy architectures
to PaaS containers, to fluidly
redeploy IT solutions to public IaaS and
PaaS services as they emerge and
mature over time.
3.
Getting the journey right involves a number of key activities:

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Develop a multi-speed IT
operating model to support
the investment bank’s journey to cloud,
taking into account needs that will arise
when introducing XaaS models
alongside traditional, in-house and
bespoke delivery methods.
4.
Getting the journey right involves a number of key activities:

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can — and must — put cloud to work with
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