{"id":40537,"date":"2020-03-10T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2020\/mar\/10\/lloyds-banking-group-signs-google-cloud-five-year-partnership\/"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:05:49","slug":"lloyds-banking-group-signs-up-to-google-cloud-in-five-year-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/lloyds-banking-group-signs-up-to-google-cloud-in-five-year-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyds Banking Group signs up to Google Cloud in five-year partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/14718555748_68cccbe0e0_k.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Google Cloud continues to secure the big-ticket clients, with the company announcing that Lloyds Banking Group is set to embark on its &lsquo;cloud transformation&rsquo; journey with Google.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">The bank will invest a total of &pound;3 billion ($3.9bn) in a five-year deal which will see Lloyds deploy various Google Cloud services focused around the customer experience. Google Cloud will also ensure that Lloyds engineers are trained to &lsquo;enhance disciplines&hellip; all in an effort to boost efficiency and offer innovative new services to the bank&rsquo;s retail and commercial customers.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">&ldquo;The size of our digital transformation is huge and Google Cloud&rsquo;s capabilities will help drive this forward, increasing the pace of innovation, as well as bringing new services to our customers quickly and at scale,&rdquo; said Zaka Mian, group transformation director at Lloyds in a statement. &ldquo;This collaboration gives us a strategic advantage to continue as a leader in banking technology.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Alongside retail and healthcare, financial services is one of the three primary customer target areas for Google. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2019\/may\/21\/hsbc-focuses-cloud-and-devops-vision-10-million-investment\/\">HSBC<\/a> is arguably the best-known financial customer, with the company speaking at Google Next as far back as 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/data-analytics\/adopting-cloud-with-new-inventions-along-the-way-charges-up-hsbc\">In September<\/a> Srinivas Vaddadi, delivery head for data services engineering at HSBC, elaborated on the bank&rsquo;s ongoing process of moving its legacy data warehouse onto BigQuery. Other Google Cloud financial services customers include PayPal, Ravelin, and Charles Schwab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Recent customer wins include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2020\/mar\/05\/major-league-baseball-makes-google-cloud-official-cloud-partner-aws-strikes-out\/\">Major League Baseball<\/a>, who is discontinuing its relationship with Amazon Web Services as a result, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2020\/feb\/12\/hedera-hashgraph-selects-google-cloud-preferred-cloud-provider\/\">Hedera Hashgraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">&ldquo;Banking customers today expect secure access to their funds, without downtime, and delivered through the modern experiences they receive in other aspects of their lives,&rdquo; said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. &ldquo;We are proud to work with such a storied institution as Lloyds, which helped to create &ndash; and continues to redefine &ndash; the next generation of financial services.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><em>Picture credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/126066997@N07\/14718555748\/in\/photolist-oqCrQy-28ckT2k-21inHSo-7Z8CBn-25XighU-dPxDcG-2gtaL25-as9m2K-LCkGPY-Hwaxq-as9kGT-YJDPbG-9rmtHm-CawLa7-8phuRR-bGJsLV-Q9PkwR-uHaFXq-nr7kop-28vDJnS-n22n5c-nqPYSc-2go8MU1-RbYzYH-2gsGVRu-LN5YHq-uRsVLM-j7WsTB-p3kFDW-YVfEyR-aDkupj-H43vF2-Geu1KU-21QVnP4-29uCvDy-YJdEAY-jwm2gY-ZvS6qF-GWsGZh-21kqct1-n22ctR-XvaGPe-77gcNK-SQ3QhG-bpEvCj-YkNMy4-26F8yz7-ac55u-CuHdX7-dFrmSH\">Lloyds Branch Manchester Exterior<\/a>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/126066997@N07\/\">Money Bright<\/a>, used under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\"><span style=\"color:blue\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\" style=\"height:59px; width:272px\" \/><\/span><\/a><strong>Interested in hearing industry leaders discuss subjects like this and sharing their experiences and use-cases<\/strong>? Attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Cyber Security &amp; Cloud Expo World Series<\/a> with upcoming events in Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud continues to secure the big-ticket clients, with the company announcing that Lloyds Banking Group is set to embark on its &lsquo;cloud transformation&rsquo; journey with Google.<br \/>\nThe bank will invest a total of &pound;3 billion ($3.9bn) in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40547,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40537\/revisions\/40547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}