Cloud presence: Standard Chartered's journey to cloud-first financial services
Sooraj Shah – March 2021 Dr Michael Gorriz, group CIO of Standard Chartered, describes how the multinational bank has enthusiastically — but judiciously — embraced the cloud as the new foundation for both digital innovation and traditional core banking systems. When Dr Michael Gorriz joined financial services company Standard Chartered in July 2015 as group CIO, his mission was to raise the bank’s digital capabilities to the point where its vast multinational retail and wholesale businesses could run services in an integrated and seamless fashion, 24x7. Such digital ambitions wer...