Executive Overview Operational Resilience in the financial sector due to increasing cyber threats, technological disruptions and regulatory scrutiny has gained importance over time. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) was introduced by the European Union in 2020 as part of Digital Finance Package to improve the financial sector’s ability to withstand ICT (Information and Communication […]
To Strengthen Control, Compliance and Competitive Advantage with Brickendon’s Data Solutions Executive Overview As we enter 2026, the regulatory banking landscape is defined by heightened supervisory scrutiny, accelerated digital transformation, AI-enabled decisioning, and increasingly complex data ecosystems. Financial institutions are expected not only to meet evolving regulatory obligations, but to demonstrate control, transparency and resilience […]
Firms that manage these risks effectively will gain a clear competitive advantage. Executive Overview The migration from SWIFT MT messages to ISO 20022 represents one of the most significant changes to global payments in decades. While many institutions have focused on meeting technical deadlines, experience across the industry shows that the real challenge is not […]
Innovation is not a new concept but embracing it rapidly and adapting to the disruption it brings is going to be key in 2025. Those that fail to innovate, and in particular quickly embrace technological innovations to enhance their core offerings, risk being left behind in the race to triumph in the financial markets. As […]
Brickendon was engaged by a global bank to rollout DevOps across their organisation. Our specialists were able to successfully embed DevOps within the organisation globally, working directly with development teams, senior management, country heads and C-suite executives to increase the number of releases and decrease the number of incidents impacting the business. The team worked […]
Inspired by use in the tech industry, financial firms are embracing biometrics as a way of improving banking security.
Driven by rapid innovation in the tech sector, financial services have embraced cloud computing, aiming to redeploy this towards their specific needs.
The reliance of the financial industry on both customer volume and complex decision-making makes it a prime candidate for embracing this artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
At its core, decentralised finance (DeFi) is the use of a peer-to-peer (P2P) network through which traditional financial services can operate, free from intermediation.
Various features of the blockchain and the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT) make it ideally suited for use in any kind of transfer system whether it be payments, trading or lending.