Goldman Sachs joins Trusted Computing Group

I understand the concepts behind this, however, i feel that all too often we forget what constraints could be introduced. For example, clouds are not equal, not equal in terms of their underlying infrastructure capabilities, management options, technologies and therefore the capabilities you are able to build upon will be varied. By trying to impose interopability at this scale you are essentially saying that you cannot take advantage of an innovation any one specific cloud provider can offer you, therefore you could well fall behind competitors as they look to take advantage.

This is commonly seen in Finance and FinTech. As an industry we need to be mindful that technology is moving at an ever increasing rate, a rate that pulls away from Finance and even FinTech more each year. We need to be looking at the real challenge, and that is legacy systems, finance lack of understanding of the cloud or more worryingly - financial services based companies feeling they must own everything in order to be accountable. These are the areas that need addressing most if we wish to see financial institutions and fintech do well, to innovate and to provide improved customer outcomes.