Cloudy With a Chance of Risk: FinServ Compliance in a Hybrid, Multi-cloud World

Hybrid and multi-cloud adoption has rapidly become the default for financial services organizations seeking agility, operational resilience, and competitive advantage.

In today’s financial services landscape, cloud adoption isn’t just accelerating—it’s fragmenting. Organizations are no longer choosing a cloud; they are choosing many, layering public clouds over private ones and stitching legacy infrastructure together with modern, cloud-native applications. This hybrid, multi-cloud reality delivers speed, scalability, and resilience, but it also introduces a complex regulatory puzzle.

Every system that touches customer data, every region in which infrastructure is deployed, every vendor integrated into the environment—all of it now sits under a tighter regulatory microscope. From data residency requirements to cross-border transfer rules to frameworks like PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, and emerging AI governance standards, financial institutions face a compliance climate that is growing more unpredictable by the day.

In today’s financial services landscape, cloud adoption isn’t just accelerating—it’s fragmenting. Organizations are no longer choosing a cloud; they are choosing many, layering public clouds over private ones and stitching legacy infrastructure together with modern, cloud-native applications. This hybrid, multi-cloud reality delivers speed, scalability, and resilience, but it also introduces a complex regulatory puzzle.

Every system that touches customer data, every region in which infrastructure is deployed, every vendor integrated into the environment—all of it now sits under a tighter regulatory microscope. From data residency requirements to cross-border transfer rules to frameworks like PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, and emerging AI governance standards, financial institutions face a compliance climate that is growing more unpredictable by the day.

In today’s financial services landscape, cloud adoption isn’t just accelerating—it’s fragmenting. Organizations are no longer choosing a cloud; they are choosing many, layering public clouds over private ones and stitching legacy infrastructure together with modern, cloud-native applications. This hybrid, multi-cloud reality delivers speed, scalability, and resilience, but it also introduces a complex regulatory puzzle.

In today’s financial services landscape, cloud adoption isn’t just accelerating—it’s fragmenting. Organizations are no longer choosing a cloud; they are choosing many, layering public clouds over private ones and stitching legacy infrastructure together with modern, cloud-native applications. This hybrid, multi-cloud reality delivers speed, scalability, and resilience, but it also introduces a complex regulatory puzzle.

Every system that touches customer data, every region in which infrastructure is deployed, every vendor integrated into the environment—all of it now sits under a tighter regulatory microscope. From data residency requirements to cross-border transfer rules to frameworks like PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, and emerging AI governance standards, financial institutions face a compliance climate that is growing more unpredictable by the day.