UAE-headquartered Emirates NBD , provides retail , wholesale and corporate financial services across the Gulf state and international markets . To increase the speed and flexibility of IT delivery while controlling costs , it embarked on an ambitious multimilliondollar initiative to transform its end-to-end technology infrastructure and practices . Miguel Rio Tinto , Group CIO , Emirates NBD , tells Intelligent CIO Middle East , why the group embarked on transformation to become an innovative , always-available bank .

Miguel Rio Tinto , Group CIO of Emirates NBD

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