It’s hard to imagine many fields where data is more important than financial services and banking. More and more, transactions and financial interactions are occurring online, in real-time — which means data is an integral component both for how financial institutions provide services and experiences to their customers and for how they mitigate risk. As the world grows more interconnected — and when economic situations turn on a dime, like during the Covid pandemic — staying at the forefront of these considerations is an ever-increasing technological challenge. Luckily for Capital One, the effective deployment of information technology is quite literally central to its founding principle.