While DevOps is basically the amalgamation of software development and operations, the merging of these two parts of the business alone is not enough. If you want to reap the full benefits of switching to a DevOps way of working, including reducing testing and development times (by as much as 80 per cent), significantly cutting […]
One year on from the triggering of Article 50, and despite the headwinds caused by the political instability, the UK and EU27 countries have managed to agree on a transition period that will allow financial services firms to continue to benefit from passporting permissions until the end of 2020. While this political agreement creates a […]
The recent media reports about an alleged data breach involving social media site Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have added to the ongoing concerns about the safety of personal data from identity theft, cyberattacks, hacking or unethical usage.The European Union has introduced the new General Data Protection Act (GDPR) to safeguard its citizens by standardising data […]
One hundred years may have passed since women were given the right to vote in the UK (98 years in the US), but the issue of women’s rights is still as prevalent as ever. In recent months the issue has dominated the news, with the launch of the recent #metoo campaign following the outpouring of […]
Another day another regulation, and this time it’s the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book. FRTB, as it is known, is part of the Basel III rules and is aimed at significantly transforming the way banks manage their capital requirements and how they are structured and managed internally. Risk models, liquidity horizons and data for […]
Another new year and another financial deadline, one which has the potential to significantly impact the banking marketplace for both financial institutions and their retail customers. This time it’s the second Payments Services Directive (PSD2), which comes into force on January 13th, with the aim of promoting security and transparency in retail payments processing, whilst […]
It will take a combination of hot topics to change the financial services game in 2018, say Brickendon’s experts. 2017 may now be behind us, but the year of the Rooster’s hot topics of data, Brexit and regulation are not. According to Brickendon’s senior leadership team, the very same topics, with a sprinkling of digitalisation, Blockchain, cloud enablement and […]
Imagine a day in the not-so-distant future: you are on the train on your way to work, you check a dashboard produced by an app on your phone that shows your spending patterns aggregated from all your bank accounts. The dashboard shows that you are spending too much on entertainment and are falling short of […]
In 1998 a Spanish newspaper published two articles on their website about the auctioning of two properties owned by Mario Costeja Gonzalez. The state forced the sale of the properties because of Costeja’s failure to honour his social security debts. Eleven years later, Costeja contacted the newspaper and asked them to remove the articles on […]
In finance, whatever the project, process or programme, the mantra is low cost and high quality. Ensuring those levels of cost and quality however can be difficult, particularly when it comes to financial software. The key is to ensure that most defects are found early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as the cost of […]