Financial services companies are under intense pressure to differentiate themselves from traditional competitors and new entrants, while materially reducing operating costs. This is a huge challenge for the many whose core IT systems were built years, if not decades, ago. With a UK financial services software and IT services market worth nearly £11bn and growing faster than GDP* (*Source: TechMarketView), there is no shortage of opportunity for suppliers of innovative technologies that can build upon entrenched legacy systems to enable financial services companies to reduce the time to launch new, profitable, market-relevant products and services.