Helping financial service organisations drive resilience, while enabling innovation
- By CDOTrends editors
- October 15, 2026
Financial services organizations face high customer expectations, evolving regulation and compliance - particularly with AI adoption - and increased cyber threats. Resilience is now a business priority, and organizations are expected to deliver stability and innovation while doing more with less. In this panel discussion, Hitachi Vantara’s Senior Director Matt Billard and Cordant’s Technical Director Tom Walker sat down with CDOTrends’ Lachlan Colquhoun to discuss their new partnership, and how it can help organizations unlock value from their data while navigating a set of complex challenges.
Key takeaways:
1. In a period of growing technical complexity, financial services organizations must strengthen their resilience and address risk while also accelerating innovation.
2. Data value can come through a configuration of AI, analytics, and automation, supported by trusted and resilient architecture.
3. Hitachi Vantara and Cordant have forged a new partnership which offers infrastructure, data protection and cyber security capabilities and also focusses on optimizing business outcomes.
4. The partners shared a case study on how they helped a client in the insurance sector implement a converged infrastructure solutions which improved performance and supported future growth.
