Companies within the financial services sector are looking for opportunities to simplify their technology landscape. This can often be extremely complex, leaving them the choice between addressing either revenue and/or cost. It’s far easier to start by reducing cost, but how can they do this without losing sight of the customer? How can they use technology to support that agenda? A good place to start is to consider what can be done in relation to mainframes and the use of platforms, how to leverage Cloud and remove the need for data centres. Work can also be done around DevOps and more broadly, operations automation. Tim Broome is joined by John Harris, Accenture’s Technology Consulting lead for Asia Pacific, to explore the cost pressures on the financial services industry and how technology is really helping to alleviate some of those concerns.