Speed vs. Stability: Challenges to Pursuing “Bimodal IT” in Enterprise Finance Firms Let’s be honest: The financial sector is very risk-averse in its IT infrastructure choices. Systems need to be hardened, highly available and protected, both for regulatory compliance and often more importantly, to meet the demanding requirements of internal business stakeholders. Traditionally, finance firms have spent whatever was required to maintain resiliency, even investing in a set of overlapping products, tools and services to be confident that they could recover from disruptions, both large and small. The result: Big, stable, costly, inflexible legacy systems. On the application front, though, even the largest financial firms are being challenged by a growing cadre of nimble FinTech Sa

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