The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has begun the process of migrating its surveillance and other watchdog duties to cloud computing in a move aimed at dramatically boosting the regulator’s capabilities, two agency officials told Reuters.

FINRA’s Chief Information Officer Steven Randich said that as well as giving the regulator increased processing capacity and more space to store data, moving to the cloud will reduce costs because the service is only used when needed.

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