A large international financial institution was struggling to acquire, maintain and manage multiple classes and hierarchies of data within existing systems and processes. As a result, they faced significant difficulty assigning credit risk and calculating capital requirements and RWA. They also missed out on product sales opportunities, and encountered various deficiencies with several ongoing regulatory reporting […]
A large international bank was struggling with the reconciliation between assumed and the actual settlement of trades, which was costing them large amounts of money and considerable man hours. Brickendon were engaged to assess the existing situation, devise a programme to remove operational risk from the current process and to provide a strategic solution going […]
The client wanted a more robust, scalable and reliable solution for caching FX static data. The large legacy system was clunky and slow. Each trading system that used the cache actually only required small subsets of data for each transaction. Challenges To deliver big changes to the existing application, whilst allowing live trading to continue […]
The client needed an experienced programme manager with strong soft skills to help reorganise and reinvigorate a team seeking to recover from recent issues and deliver large-scale reference data change. The Challenges A need to have change accepted within the broader group of stakeholders A team structure was required to scale to meet the demands […]
A large UK bank required a solution to advise OTC derivative traders if they could trade a derivative with a counterparty The Challenges The user interface must be quick and easy-to-use in a busy trading environment Advice should be clear and specific. Can I Trade? How Do I Trade? The solution should be multi-asset, supporting […]
The client was rolling out an ecommerce front-office application across 20 countries in APAC, Europe, US and Latin America. Brickendon was called upon to ensure the system was appropriately tested, making certain that the wide geographical spread of the employees did not affect the quality of the software. The Challenges There was only a small […]
A large international investment bank was struggling to utilise its management information (MI) effectively due to the vast number of different legacy systems in operation. The bank called on Brickendon to help consolidate the appropriate information systems, reducing the number of inputs and outputs, and correcting any errors in the collation process. In the long […]
One of the world’s most prestigious engineering companies embarked on a major programme of work to migrate the majority of its IT to new state‐of‐the‐art data centres. Brickendon was approached to provide strategic test consultancy on the basis of the expertise and reputation of our consultants. The objective of this project was twofold: in-house testing […]
Brickendon was engaged to assist in the building of a post-trade portal to be used by external clients of a top tier investment bank. The portal needed to allow various cross-asset trades, submitted to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) by the bank on their clients’ behalf, to be updated and resubmitted as necessary. […]
A large client was changing the way it managed its projects and wanted to establish a performance management framework to track and monitor success. It called on Brickendon to analyse the different stages of multiple ongoing projects and holistically evaluate the overall project management process. The aim was to highlight key problem areas and design […]