In Bank Confidential: An Immigrant Engineer's Journey Through Risk, Resilience and Banking Secrets, Lisa Hu provides an insider's look at the "data dungeons" powering the global financial system. Arriving in Toronto in 2006 as a Tsinghua University graduate, Hu transitioned from maintaining aging IBM mainframes to architecting the future of digital banking.

The memoir captures her strategic rise within one of Canada's "Big Five" banks, where she navigated the 2008 financial crisis and challenged a rigid "culture of no." Hu details her role in spearheading the "Cloud Heresy"?advocating for public cloud adoption?and her leadership in the Algorithmic Governance Council to ensure ethical AI and bias-free lending.

Blending technical expertise with an immigrant's perspective, Hu demystifies complex systems like MuleSoft APIs and Open Banking. More than a technical manual, the book is a story of human resilience, documenting how an outsider dismantled silos to build a more transparent, AI-augmented, and ethical financial fortress. Today, Hu serves as a global consultant, helping institutions worldwide bridge the gap between legacy code and modern innovation.