Live polling conducted at FST Media’s webinar Death of an App – Data Retention in the Core Banking Revolution, uncovered key trends within financial services organisations’ core application transformation projects. Organisations are undertaking these projects to reduce complexity (35 per cent), minimise cost (29 per cent), and ease compliance reporting requirements (21 per cent). The volume of legacy applications present in financial services organisations is an issue according to live poll respondents, as is data quality.