The message for global finance in 2026 is simple: move to the cloud or be left behind. Gartner estimates that sovereign cloud infrastructure spending alone will reach $80 billion this year. But even with huge budgets, many migration projects for regulated industries are stalling out – or worse, failing spectacularly. We found out by sitting down with Sergei Kuznetsov, Lead Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building and migrating distributed financial platforms used by central banks and institutional investors around the world. Kuznetsov says this is the reality check for any organization who thinks cloud migration is just…
