In my experience, fintech companies (including ones that either belong to or own a bank) follow one of two playbooks:
- Issue high-powered laptops that the developers work on directly, then install so many security suites that Visual Studio takes three minutes to launch. The tech stack is too crusty and convoluted to move to anything else like developer VMs without major breakage.
- Rely 100% on Entra ID to protect a tech stack that's either 100% Azure or 99% Azure with the remaining 1% being Citrix. You can dial in with anything that can run a Citrix client or a browser modern enough to run the AVD web client. If they could somehow move the client hardware to the Azure cloud, they would.
I don't really associate fintech with a modern, well-implemented tech stack. Well, I suppose moving everything to the cloud is modern but that doesn't mean it's particularly well done.
- Issue high-powered laptops that the developers work on directly, then install so many security suites that Visual Studio takes three minutes to launch. The tech stack is too crusty and convoluted to move to anything else like developer VMs without major breakage. - Rely 100% on Entra ID to protect a tech stack that's either 100% Azure or 99% Azure with the remaining 1% being Citrix. You can dial in with anything that can run a Citrix client or a browser modern enough to run the AVD web client. If they could somehow move the client hardware to the Azure cloud, they would.
I don't really associate fintech with a modern, well-implemented tech stack. Well, I suppose moving everything to the cloud is modern but that doesn't mean it's particularly well done.