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New Whitepaper

From cloud-first to private-first in financial IT infrastructure

Financial services institutions are leading the way on AI adoption, but infrastructure bottlenecks, rising compliance costs and expanding data sovereignty mandates threaten to slow momentum. This whitepaper explores why a private-first approach to infrastructure is essential for scaling AI across banking, capital markets, payments and insurance. Learn how leading firms are rearchitecting for speed, sovereignty and security—and why enabling compliance into infrastructure design is becoming the new competitive advantage. Read the full whitepaper to see how Equinix helps 1,300+ financial services firms build AI-ready, regulation-ready architecture for the demands ahead.

What you’ll find inside:

  • 92% of financial services companies are generating profits from AI, but infrastructure gaps risk stalling growth.
  • AI workloads demand private, low-latency, sovereign infrastructure incompatible with public internet architectures.
  • Regulations like DORA, GDPR, and expanding data sovereignty mandates are reshaping where and how data is processed.
  • Private-first architecture enables compliance, security and data residency controls within infrastructure by design.     
  • Equinix supports 1,300+ financial services firms with AI-ready data centers, hybrid multicloud networking and private interconnection.
Digital fraud is a rapidly growing threat. Equinix’s direct interconnections and low-latency network help us quickly safeguard millions of transactions.
Director, Head of Infrastructure Services, Outseer
Hybrid Multicloud Networking Interconnection Financial services