A prominent European bank with global interests and a large presence in emerging markets needed to urgently assess the impact of regulatory reform, and in particular clearing, on its OTC FX business. Brickendon was engaged to make a business case supporting a recommended strategy. The Challenges Formulate a strategy to meet the client’s anticipated regulatory […]
A Brickendon client was struggling to successfully consolidate all its sales data from different business locations in the same format on one overused, out-dated system involving several manual processes. The international bank engaged Brickendon Consulting to improve and enrich the flow of information into its sales data repository, to reduce the dependence on manual input, […]
A large global bank was in the process of replacing its legacy FX Front Office system (Kondor+ and a related bespoke application) as part of an overhaul of its FX business when it became apparent that the new system (Murex) would not adequately support its manual quoting/dialog pricing requirements. Brickendon was engaged by the client to […]
The central trading platform of one of Europe’s largest asset managers, trading a wide range of asset classes, had reached a de-facto end-of-life. Brickendon was initially engaged to undertake a review of the available applications in the market, to assess their suitability for the client’s business and to construct a business case supporting a recommended […]
As Warren Buffett once said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” While the financial impacts of a cyber-attack are obvious – US retailer Target revealed a worse than expected fall in first-quarter profits following a data breach earlier […]