August 6, 2025

Determining the Right Tech Talent Strategy to Accelerate BFSI Growth

Is your tech talent strategy ready to fuel BFSI growth? Discover a practical blueprint for UK Insurtech, Payments, Wealth & IT Services leaders to close …

Is your tech talent strategy ready to fuel BFSI growth? Discover a practical blueprint for UK Insurtech, Payments, Wealth & IT Services leaders to close skill gaps and accelerate transformation. 

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The Investment Shift: AI and Cybersecurity Dominate 2026 Priorities
Why This Tech Stack Is Essential for BFSI Growth and Resilience
UK Talent Landscape: Demand Outpaces Supply
Vietnam: A Strategic Multi-Outsourcing Destination
CMC Global: Solving BFSI’s Talent and Security Challenges

The Investment Shift: AI and Cybersecurity Dominate 2026 Priorities 

Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guide projects a 20%+ rise in tech investments across UK BFSI, focusing heavily on AI, cybersecurity, data science, DevOps, and cloud modernization. AI moves beyond pilots to full-scale deployment, while cybersecurity solutions—especially for AI and cloud—become top boardroom priorities. 

The FSSC Future Skills Report 2025 highlights persistent structural talent gaps, with 32% of firms unable to recruit AI, cloud, and DevOps experts, resulting in 4–6 month delays on key transformation initiatives and rising costs. Data literacy and AI-readiness programs for employees are also becoming critical to keep pace with innovation. 

Why This Tech Stack Is Essential for BFSI Growth and Resilience 

  • AI & Data Science: Enable real-time fraud detection, predictive risk modeling, and hyper-personalized services while meeting EU AI Act and PRA compliance. 
  • DevOps & Automation: Accelerate release cycles by 3x, ensuring operational resilience testing under SS2/21. 
  • Cloud Platforms & Cybersecurity: Securely modernize legacy banking systems, protect AI-driven workloads, and strengthen defenses against emerging cyber threats. 

Without these capabilities, UK BFSI firms face innovation stagnation, compliance breaches, cyber vulnerabilities, and higher operational risk. 

UK Talent Landscape: Demand Outpaces Supply 

  • 20–25% critical skill gap in AI, DevOps, cloud, and cybersecurity across UK BFSI, with some roles (AI engineers, cloud architects) facing over 30% vacancy rates (Forrester, FSSC 2025). 
  • 81% of firms cite lack of specialist talent as the main barrier to scaling AI adoption, slowing transformation roadmaps. 
  • 65% of digital programs delayed or over budget due to shortage of certified DevOps and cloud migration experts. 
  • Post-2024 tech layoffs did not fill the gap; UK BFSI now faces intense competition for scarce high-skill talent, with demand expected to exceed supply by 25–30% through 2026, driving higher costs and delivery risks. 

Vietnam: A Strategic Multi-Outsourcing Destination 

  • AI-Ready, Tech-Savvy Workforce: Over 5,000 AI engineers and 7,000 AI specialists, supporting 765+ AI/ML startups as of 2025—second only to Singapore in Southeast Asia. Vietnamese engineers excel in Generative AI, MLOps, and data engineering, with rapid upskilling programs making them highly capable of large-scale BFSI AI adoption. 

  • Strong AI Ecosystem & R&D Investment: Leading Vietnamese enterprises like Viettel, FPT, CMC, VNPT, and Vingroup are heavily investing in AI solutions for BFSI applications such as NLP, fraud detection, and eKYC. According to Google’s Vietnam AI Opportunity Agenda, these efforts, combined with Qualcomm’s new AI R&D Centre (Reuters, 2025) and Vietnam’s National AI Strategy targeting global leadership by 2030, show strong momentum in building data infrastructure, advancing AI research, and fostering public-private collaboration to accelerate BFSI innovation. 
  • Compliance & 7-Layer Security: CMC Global operates under ISO 27001, 27701, SOC 2, PRA/FCA standards, with a 7-layer framework including encryption, network segmentation, monitoring, threat detection, secure DevOps, IAM, and disaster recovery—delivering full-spectrum protection for sensitive BFSI data and AI/cloud workloads. 
  • Scalable BFSI Specialist Teams: 10–100+ engineers skilled in Python, NLP, computer vision, GenAI, and predictive analytics, deployed in weeks as seamless UK team extensions. Timezone alignment (3-hour overlap) and 30–40% cost savings ensure high-quality, secure, and compliant delivery at scale. 

CMC Global: Solving BFSI’s Talent and Security Challenges 

We help UK banks, insurers, and wealth managers: 

  • Access regulatory-ready teams in critical tech stacks. 
  • Execute secure, scalable, multi-vendor delivery models aligned to compliance frameworks. 
  • Build AI-first, cloud-secure operations without long hiring cycles or hidden costs. 

Close the Gap, Secure Your Future 

Start a free POC with CMC Global’s Vietnam-based teams and see how we help BFSI leaders deliver AI-driven, resilient, and secure transformation—on time and at scale.