Financial services & insurance
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Driving innovation in FS&I
The market doesn’t stand still. Technology has fundamentally changed the Financial Services & Insurance landscape and your customers’ expectations have never been higher. Being competitive means bringing new services to market and improving customer service whilst protecting your brand’s reputation and complying with industry regulations such as PCI and MiFID II.
We work with hundreds of organisations throughout the finance sector including retail and investment banks, payment and fraud prevention providers, fintechs, brokers, funds, insurers and accountancy firms to help them innovate and grow.
Helping FS&I customers grow

Modernising infrastructure to meet growth ambitions
We modernised AI’s core payment solution as part of a migration to Azure. We delivered a Well-Architected migration with security, compliance and performance best practices designed from the start.

Optimising and managing Azure to regain control
We provide WPA with the cost savings and control they needed to further innovate their business. We reviewed and optimised their environment and Landing Zone. As Cloud Direct managed service customers, they now benefit from regular proactive cost, security and performance monitoring and optimisations. Reducing Azure spending gave WPA the ability to invest in further innovation.

Deploying Sentinel for cloud-based security monitoring
We designed and deployed Azure sentinel to keep Hargreaves Lansdown’s business and customer data secure. Hargreaves Lansdown was eager to transform the security monitoring of sensitive customer data with Microsoft Sentinel. We worked with them to understand their data and to subsequently design and deploy Sentinel, integrating with their security operations centre (SOC).
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Edmund Carr – transforming with Microsoft Azure
Following the smooth migration to Microsoft Office 365, Edmund Carr has continued to transform their business by working with Cloud Direct to migrate to Microsoft Azure. This flexible, secure environment now handles the firm’s key workloads in the cloud, including backup and their 24 business critical applications.
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