Azure for Executives Protecting Financial Services During the COVID-19 Crisis with Bill Borden, Nick Leimer, and Karen Bailey
In this episode we hear how Microsoft and its partners are focused on helping financial services organizations meet the demands of today. Specifically, the guests discuss how Microsoft is helping with the COVID-19 situation, including things like fraud detection and enabling employees.
Additional topics include how Microsoft is empowering customers with high performance computing and large data volumes to help update legacy risk models to factor in today’s new risks. Further, we hear about the power of Microsoft’s three clouds that underlies the ecosystem of Microsoft and partner solutions.
Show Links
- Blog Post: Agility, continuity, and risk management for financial services
- Blog Post: Business continuity in financial services
- Microsoft Financial Services Industry Blog
- Microsoft in Banking and Capital Markets
- Microsoft in Insurance
- Azure for Financial Services
- M365 for Financial Services
Guests
Bill Borden
Corporate Vice President for Worldwide Financial Services at Microsoft
Bill leads development and execution of Microsoft’s global financial services strategy, including the prioritization of banking, capital markets and insurance industry solutions and their alignment to Microsoft’s worldwide digital platform and partner ecosystem.
Bill on LinkedIn
Nick Leimer
Principal Industry Lead for Azure for Insurance in the Microsoft Industry Experiences Team
Nick recruits partners, ISVs, start-ups, and other influential organizations in the insurance industry to accelerate adoption of the Microsoft Cloud+ AI platforms. One of his core missions is to amplify how our Microsoft cloud solutions meet the business enabling needs across the globe through speaking at conferences, authoring blogs, use cases, whitepapers, and social media posts.
Karen Bailey
Financial Services Lead for Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance on the Microsoft Industry Experiences team.
Karen is a passionate Business Technology leader with over 25 years of diverse experiences working to develop strategies for Digital Transformation focused on opti-channel, customer-centric and hyper-personalized experiences aligning Technology Solutions to Go-to Market Strategies, Operational Needs, Growth and Profitably strategies and sector imperatives.
Karen on LinkedIn