By Principal Consultant Aditya Oak Data, analytics and machine learning may be the hottest topics at the moment, but that doesn’t mean that regulation can be ignored. With the compliance deadlines for the General Data Protection Act (GDPR) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) behind us, the regulatory focus now is on the […]
There is much talk about the under-representation of women in senior roles in the financial services sector and many discussions about how to address this. One option is to implement a quota system, requiring organisations to hire a certain number of women to fill particular positions. However, filling these quotas is not easy due the […]
Implement a suitable framework for successful delivery by formulating the strategy, executing the strategy and ensuring execution is guided by governance.
The future is all about transformation This latest edition of the Brickendon Journal (Journal 14) focuses on some of the key areas currently influencing the financial services sector, including the cloud and data. We look at how data analytics is becoming increasingly important and how, by embracing the latest tools and techniques, many new business […]
Brickendon Consulting has been nominated as a finalist in the best finance sector project category of the DevOps Industry Awards for the second year running. Also a two-time winner of the European Software Testing Awards, Brickendon won the nomination for successfully implementing a DevOps programme that has increased the client’s global software releases by 45 […]
Brickendon Director Iya Datikashvili features in the September edition of International Finance magazine discussing the myths surrounding DevOps. DevOps, the combination of software development and operations, has been proven to improve the performance of the software development lifecycle. The DevOps methodology has attracted a fair share of confusion and therefore many businesses have not fully […]
Brickendon Partner and data expert Nathan Snyder features in the latest edition of Global Banking & Finance review (issue 12) discussing GDPR’s international reach. In the countdown to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on 25 May 2018, the majority of businesses only considered the implications of this within EU boundaries […]
By Iya Datikashvili, director Want to build quality software in a rapid, continuous and repeatable manner? Then it’s time to adopt DevOps. The DevOps software development practice brings formerly siloed teams within an organisation together to work as part of an integrated team that does just that – builds quality software in a rapid, continuous, […]
By Executive Director Nikit Kothari and Director Andrew Lawson Data globalisation challenges The advent of big data and the cloud was supposed to make distributing applications and data easier for global banks. A key selling point was to have a single location from which to run applications and store data which would make the process cheaper […]
By Iya Datikashvili, director DevOps is a hot topic at the moment, but as technology forges ahead with adopting the practice, the business unit seems to be lagging behind. The reason for their delay in embracing the practice is simple: the lack of clarity of their role in the DevOps world. Traditionally the business unit […]