To Cloud or Not to Cloud: Shifting Attitudes Around Cloud Adoption
Why Attend: This webinar was developed to help attendees better understand how attitudes towards cloud adoption are shifting inside banks.
It is commonly understood that there are many advantages to adopting the cloud. Yet, while there are many pro-cloud arguments, many banks host on-premises technology by choice or out of necessity. Paul Sinthunont, Strategic Advisor at Aite-Novarica Group unveil key findings from one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders across the financial services sector uncovering what’s driving—or holding back—cloud migration decisions for trading and risk management functions.
Following the presentation, Sinthunont joins a roundtable discussion with Chief Information Officer and Numerix SVP, Nestor Nelson to discuss the following topics:
- The cloud adoption decision making process happening inside financial institutions
- Why some institutions are adopting the cloud and others not, and for what purposes
- The different ways banks are using cloud providers for derivatives trading and risk analytics
- The factors that push some banks to stick with legacy systems
- The cultural, behavioral, and demographic influence on cloud adoption
Featured Speaker:
Paul Sinthunont, Strategic Advisor at Aite-Novarica
Paul Sinthunont is a Strategic Advisor at Aite-Novarica specializing in buy-side research. He covers buy-side trends in technology, operations, and regulation. His core focus is on portfolio management systems; risk management; performance attribution and measurement; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing; investment accounting; and client reporting.
Paul has spoken at industry conferences, including at InvestOps, Global Custodian, CISI, CorpActions, and Performance Measurement Europe.
Before joining Aite-Novarica, Paul was a Research Consultant at CoreData Research, where he led the research efforts covering trends in both intermediary and institutional investor channels. This included producing market insight studies, white papers, and thought leadership for both asset managers and asset servicers such as State Street, Invesco, Natixis Investment Management, Janus Henderson, and Vanguard. Topics covered included portfolio strategy, client engagement, manager selection, ESG integration, alternative investing, and factor investing.
Paul holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester, an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick, and an M.Sc. in Public Policy from University College London. He has completed Level III of the Chartered Financial Analyst program. He is fluent in both English and Thai.
Nestor Nelson, Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President at Numerix
As Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Mr. Nelson is responsible for developing and driving enterprise agility, transformation and value creation across the product strategy, development, and delivery teams. In this role, he works with all teams involved in the product life cycle, from ideation to the end of the cycle. Mr. Nelson is also charged with establishing transformative processes and strategies to enable Numerix to be more responsive to customer demands, as well as realigning and instilling a collaborative enterprise framework to improve productivity, transparency, and accountability. In addition, he drives communication and training initiatives.
Prior to joining Numerix in 2020, Mr. Nelson was founder and principal of KWT Advisory LLC, which provided IT and business consultancy services to private equity, mid-size and start-up firms. He also served as CIO at Tempo Financial Holdings, a private equity-backed global MSB specializing in international remittances, bill payment and check cashing products. Prior to that, Mr. Nelson served as CTO of ICAP, where he spearheaded analytics and global market data services for the financial and commodity sectors. He attended the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he focused on mechanical engineering.
Moderator: James Jockle, Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President at Numerix
As Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Global Marketing & Corporate Communications, Mr. Jockle leads the company’s global marketing and corporate communications efforts, spanning a diverse set of solutions and audiences. He oversees integrated marketing communications to clients in the largest global financial markets and to the Numerix partner network through the company's branding, electronic marketing, research, events, public relations, advertising and relationship marketing.
Since joining Numerix in 2008, Mr. Jockle has launched the organization’s award-winning thought leadership program, bringing to light challenges and insights from Numerix market experts. Mr. Jockle also hosts the Numerix Video Blog to tackle the challenges pressing the derivatives markets—from regulatory issues to trading strategies.
Prior to joining Numerix, he served as Managing Director of Global Marketing and Communications for Fitch Ratings. During his tenure at Fitch, Mr. Jockle built the firm’s public relations program, oversaw investor relations and led marketing and communications plans for several acquisitions. Prior to Fitch, Mr. Jockle was a member of the communications team at Moody's Investors Service.
