Automate to innovate and compete

The financial services industry is experiencing widespread disruption caused by the digital demands of an increasingly connected customer. Financial services companies must create the scale and capabilities to compete against new digitally native competitors. To succeed in this new reality, financial services organizations strive to optimize resources, accelerate development, and quickly adapt to market changes. However, routine tasks, manual processes, cultural resistance to change, and inefficient workflows create a burden on IT teams, affecting the ability to quickly deliver value to customers and maintain a seamless operating framework. An automation strategy with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, a suite of proven technologies that create a consistent foundation for automation across your enterprise, can help your organization improve existing processes and execute your digital initiatives. Applying modern automation to your organization’s application environment helps your business better serve customers so that you can be successful.

Monica Sasso, EMEA FSI Chief Technologist, Red Hat

As a chief technologist for financial services in EMEA at Red Hat, Monica provides strategic support to customers as they look to open source and open hybrid cloud technologies to drive business transformation initiatives.
Previously, Monica worked for prestigious organisations on a global scale – from Nationwide and Barclays to Coutts and Deutsche Bank.
In her spare time, Monica works with female entrepreneurs and helps encourage more girls to participate in sports – she is the past Honorary Treasurer and Corporate Social Responsibility Champion for the University Women’s Club, London and is a Girl Guides leader.

Andrew Brown, UK Vertical Sales Manager – FSI, Red Hat

Andrew manages Red Hat UK’s Financial Service Sales team responsible for our portfolio of open source solutions and services. Building on our core competency of providing secure, scalable platforms, Red Hat is now the leader in helping FS customers realise the benefits of a multi-cloud strategy through its best in class open-source container platform (OpenShift) and our unique open culture which drives innovation and faster time to market.

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