The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, more commonly known as MiFID II, is one of the most talked about regulations in the financial services sector. Its impacts are far-reaching, both in terms of the macro structure of the overall financial markets and the internal functional areas within the financial institutions themselves. With the deadline for […]
With less than a year to go until the deadline for compliance with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), now is the time to prepare. Billed as the biggest change to data privacy laws in many years, GDPR has the potential to massively impact the financial services sector around the globe. Failure to […]
Banking systems are full of processes. Whether it’s client onboarding, due diligence, or any other step in the process of running a bank, there is always information to gather, store, interpret, review and transfer in order for the business to continue operating effectively. Many of these processes require a series of actions, which often take […]
Brickendon Partner and data specialist Nathan Snyder will be speaking about one of the biggest-ever changes to data privacy at the RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York. Snyder, who heads up Brickendon’s data practice, will speak about the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) at the event on November 16th at Convene in […]
Balancing testing speed and release quality is one of the biggest challenges in software engineering. Even if you can keep up with testing the new functionality of a release, the continuous needs of testing the ever-growing regression scope can often seem unattainable. Regression testing is performed when changes are made to the existing functionality of […]
Brickendon Consulting has been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the DevOps Industry Awards. Brickendon, two-time winner of the European Software Testing Awards, won its first ever finalist nomination in the DevOps Awards for a project which reduced testing and business analysis time by around 80 per cent and significantly cut overall costs […]
Brickendon CEO Christopher Burke talks to FX-MM about the problems facing women seeking to progress in the financial services sector and what organisations can do to overcome these issues. Brickendon recently signed up to the Women in Finance Charter, cementing the firm’s vision that females have an important role to play in the future of the […]
A large international bank was struggling to keep its global DevOps programme on track and realise the full range of benefits. The bank engaged Brickendon to help speed up the implementation of the programme and to ensure the organisation adopted agile and DevOps practices globally. Brickendon’s experienced DevOps specialists were able to successfully embed DevOps […]
If Brexit has done one thing, it is to create yet more uncertainty in the financial sector. Immediately after the referendum, the media was rife with reports that banks were making plans to shift staff and operations from London to EU cities such as Frankfurt and Brussels. Failing to do this and maintaining large operations […]
Seven years ago today, President Obama signed in to federal US law The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Dodd-Frank, as it became known, set the path for other regulators globally. It was the first regulator to respond post the financial crisis, it was the broadest regulation in terms of its scope and […]