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The legacy system heritage within most big Financial Services businesses is simply an environmental factor - they are there, they dominate the culture & thinking because they are so business critical. Often they are now becoming twilight or even zombie technology, and are expensive to maintain and precarious to upgrade or adapt. However, they are still in many (most) instances a massive factor in the decision-making and cultural thinking within the senior level with these organisations. It is a very brave CIO who attempts transformation on his creaking & aged Mainframe! It is why a move to Cloud is such a revolutionary leap forward - it unshackles the whole organisation from its IT legacy in a really empowering way, it changes the culture of the whole organisation and allows innovation to thrive at both grass-roots and in the boardroom.