Managing Director - Banking, Capital Markets & Wealth
Box
Matthew Midson is Managing Director of Banking, Capital Markets & Wealth at Box, helping leading financial institutions modernize content strategies and drive secure digital transformation in the AI era. With more than 28 years of senior technology leadership, including CIO roles at HSBC, Société Générale, and Deutsche Bank, he brings deep expertise in global banking, capital markets, and asset management. He works with banking leaders to navigate regulatory complexity, strengthen data governance, and align innovation with measurable business outcomes.
Financial institutions face a fundamental challenge: customers expect speed and agility, but complex regulatory environments and legacy infrastructure make rapid transformation extraordinarily difficult. This panel examines what enables operational velocity at scale: transforming payments and operations at institutions processing massive transaction volumes, building the data infrastructure that enables both enterprise agility and AI deployment at scale, and understanding which architectural patterns from modern financial institutions can be adapted to legacy environments. The conversation addresses what traditional banks must modernize to achieve velocity, how AI and automation compress timelines without sacrificing reliability or compliance, and real-world examples of achieving speed while maintaining security and regulatory standards at enterprise scale.