The State of Data Transformation in Financial Services

Shamik: Financial services has always been a data driven business, right? Everything you do is all movement of data from one place to the other. Over the last six years, i have seen the questions around data move from being a pure defensive play...to some that has also got a strong offensive leg or a business facing legs. The second thing is who talks about data. When i started being chief data officer, everybody in my bank at least was happy to leave me in my corner and deal with data all on my own. By the time i left, everybody from the group c or down, actually alive, understood and wanted to be involved with the data journey.