The financial services industry is navigating complex digital transformation challenges, with a focus on driving change, unlocking data, and accelerating growth while maintaining regulatory compliance. In a webinar with ING and Google Cloud, experts emphasized the importance of trust, recommending that security and trust be integral from the outset of service development. They discussed managing information overload through metadata and data simplification tools and stressed the significance of effective log management, suggesting categorization and machine learning for enhanced utility. Compliance is seen not just as a hurdle but a catalyst for innovation, with some companies leveraging regulatory challenges to accelerate cloud adoption and product development. The partnership between Google Cloud and Elastic offers financial institutions powerful tools to analyze data from diverse sources, enhancing insights in data-intensive use cases like ESG and KYC.