Retail banks are generally expected to be risk adverse. So, what does it say that Canada’s EQ Bank chose an open source, unsupported identity management project for its IAM programme, as part of an aggressive push towards the cloud.
EQ is a challenger bank in Canada, currently just outside the country’s big six. It’s planning to be entirely cloud-based by 2026 but has the vast bulk of its operations in the cloud already, with its estate dominated by Azure and Microsoft tooling.
