Cloud Computing, by Nikit Kothari, executive director The use of cloud computing has been gaining some serious momentum in Financial Services in recent years. With an increased focus on cost efficiency, continuing to deliver against a very aggressive technical roadmap has become the norm in our current financial environment. Revenues are now growing based on […]
The deadline for compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may now be behind us, but there is still no room for complacency. While companies within the EU are well aware of the implications of non-compliance – fines of as much as €20 million or 4 per cent of global turnover – many […]
Brickendon has strengthened its executive board with the appointment of Clare Chalmers as a non-executive director. Her role is to advise the fast-growing transformational consultancy on growth and strategy. Chalmers, who specialises in advising financial services firms on board effectiveness, will provide guidance to Brickendon’s leadership team on the overall direction and strategy of the […]
Brickendon Partner and Data Specialist Nathan Snyder joins the Financial Times’ discussion on GDPR, adding his take on what it means for businesses outside of the EU. As the head of our US operation based in New York, he is well aware of the possible impacts on US businesses and the need for these firms […]
For many years data monetisation has been seen as a way for data organisations (traditionally seen as cost centres) to reduce, or at least justify, their expense. By assembling data and then selling it either externally to third-party vendors, or internally within their own company, a data organisation could recoup some of its costs. This is, […]
GDPR US impact Much has been written in Europe about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new set of legislation due to come into effect on May 25, 2018, and billed as having the greatest impact on data collection, storage and usage of any regulation in the last 20 years. Fundamentally, from this date, […]
Increasing numbers of business and IT teams are choosing to adopt DevOps and actively implement the process into their day-to-day operations. Brickendon’s DevOps experts talk to DevOps Online about the numerous opportunities that can be reaped from implementing the methodology and seek to put an end to some of the myths surrounding it. Read the […]
DevOps, the combination of development and operations, has been proven to improve the performance of the software development lifecycle. Despite this, and the fact that is has been an emerging practice across organisations for a while now, there are many reservations surrounding its implementation. A process which can easily be plugged into the overall structure […]
Brickendon’s Director and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) expert Iya Datikashvili features in the latest edition of The European discussing automation and how we at Brickendon believe that 2018 will be the year that automation becomes the norm across the financial services sector and in particular RPA. For banks RPA has a number of benefits including […]
Brickendon’s Executive Director and MiFID specialist, Harpreet Singh features in the latest edition of Intercontinental Finance & Law (issue: 148/18) discussing the impact of Brexit on MiFID II and the implications that have dominated the financial services sector. MiFID II went live on 3rd January 2018 however there are already speculations of a newer version of […]