Between significant upheaval (especially on the mobile payments front) and the imposition of seemingly impossible regulations, the banking industry is currently undergoing one of the most evolutionary periods in its history. Managing a global financial institution's technology portfolio while at the same time meeting the cutting-edge expectations of increasingly savvy customers (both consumers and business) is enough to keep any technologist up at night. Especially Yobie Benjamin a CTO with one of the largest financial institutions in the world.

Benjamin recently joined Fritz Nelson and David Berlind on the set of InformationWeek's Valley View to talk about his top priorities. Among those priorities is getting his company to Internet scale.

The way Benjamin describes it, the user experience that consumers are seeing on their iPads is setting bank customers' technological expectations. Not only must everything be available across the Internet, both the user experience and the speed must be uncompromising. For example, according to Benjamin, much the same way Internet users are accustomed to getting sub-500ms performance out of websites like Google, the same is expected of his bank's online applications.

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