There are so many problems with cloud computing with respect to a financial institution! You've mentioned security and compliance gets a good shoeing in the linked article too. Solutions for latency issues are little more than hosting providers currently offer - hardly elastic or cloudy.
You might be able to stop worrying about maintaining the clerical functions and even some of the analytical functions. You may well cut a lot off your capex and opex but only in a few areas.
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