Data, Sovereignty, and AI: Rethinking Object Storage in Financial Services


Dia Ali

Global Platforms & Solutions Lead - Data Intelligence, Hitachi Vantara

Omar Iqbal

Global Head of Regulatory Reporting and Recordkeeping technology, Standard Chartered

Rehman Hameed

Head of AI, UBL

Object storage in financial services is no longer a quiet, low-cost repository at the edge of the enterprise. As it moves to the centre of data strategy, it is reshaping how firms think about data itself – not just as something to be retained and protected, but as an asset that must remain governed, reusable and ready to support resilience, compliance, sovereignty, analytics and AI at scale.

This FStech webinar, sponsored by Hitachi Vantara, brings together senior decision-makers from across banking and financial services to examine what this shift means in practice. Drawing on the findings of FStech's latest research report — How Financial Institutions Unlock More Value from Data with Object Storage — the discussion will move beyond the data to explore the strategic choices institutions face as object storage moves from the periphery to the centre of their data architectures.

How do you govern object storage effectively across hybrid and multi-cloud environments? How do you make the transition from passive archive to active, value-generating data platform? And how do you build the foundations – metadata, automation, integration – that AI and analytics initiatives genuinely require? These questions and more will be examined by a panel of expert speakers who are at the forefront of object storage deployment in financial services.

Speakers

  • Dia Ali, Global Platforms & Solutions Lead - Data Intelligence, Hitachi Vantara
  • Omar Iqbal, Global Head of Regulatory Reporting and Recordkeeping technology, Standard Chartered
  • Rehman Hameed, Head of AI, UBL

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