Those who have been trusted banking customers could be shunned by their long-standing loan officers, regardless of the strength of their business plan.

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This long-standing challenge for customers is aggravated by dramatic increases in cost and complexity amid a rising tide of sophisticated, data-intensive workloads in an increasingly interconnected world.

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