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Bill Borden
Bill Borden
Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft
Bill leads the development and execution of Microsoft’s financial services industry strategy, supporting banking, capital markets, and insurance customers worldwide in their digital transformation journeys to innovate and grow their businesses.
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Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services: New updates to further accelerate growth, innovation, and connected customer experiences 

What’s new: Strengthening of partner opportunities, expansion into new markets, and enhanced customer experience capabilities Financial services organizations around the world have been focused on how to best accelerate their digital agendas. At the center of this modernization is the need to better serve their clients and empower employees, while at the same time reducing
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Microsoft and the financial services industry: A year in review and 2022 trends ahead 

2021 has been an incredible year of change for the financial services industry. We saw organizations across financial services accelerate digital innovation at a record pace. This has also been an important year for us here at Microsoft. We launched Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services and made significant advancements with the industry’s leading SIs and
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Top 7 takeaways from Sibos 2021 

The theme of last week’s Sibos 2021 financial services event was “Recharging Global Finance — the digital journey evolves” — with the opportunity to debate how to recharge global finance and accelerate change for the better. It was a very fitting and thoughtful discussion, given the seismic shifts within the financial services industry. As we
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Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services: Accelerating innovation for sustainable growth 

The pandemic cemented the value of digitization and digital channels in the financial services industry—and created new expectations with customers and employees. In talking with our customers every day, financial services organizations have increased focus on how to accelerate their digital agendas to better serve their clients and empower employees, while at the same time
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Announcing: Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services 

Amid the relentless challenges of 2020, the wheels of the financial industry kept turning. At the root of it all is the historic acceleration of digital technology in the pandemic. It’s what enabled the financial services workforce to keep working and servicing its customers and to do so in new and improved ways. The crisis made the question of how “all-in” to go to the cloud all but moot. Digital transformation became less a choice and more of a necessity.
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8 innovations for financial services from Build 2020 

At our recent Microsoft Build 2020 conference, we celebrated the critical role of developers and their tireless efforts to rally during this time of crisis. We also unveiled a range of new tools and services to meet their needs to provide immediate impact and value, and help them achieve more in the future through AI