Practice – AI & Data

Employee governance best practices, provide high-quality products and services and ensure technical proficiency in holistic ways that help reduce costs and improve customer service.

The scale of the environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to become clearer. On the positive side, AI will no doubt be used to find ways to optimise energy use and reduce waste across various industries and be better at allocating scare resources. However, the development and deployment of AI requires substantial computational […]

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 […]

Many organizations are struggling with rising costs and the ongoing need to invest intheir business to survive in an increasingly competitive marketplace. ImplementingRobotic Process Automation (RPA) has been proven to help organizations address theseissues. Here we look at how a leading eFX trading organization increased tradingvolumes and revenues by implementing RPA within their Customer Integration […]

Dealing with the vast amounts of data within an organisation can be challenging. Brickendon believes that addressing these needs in a holistic way helps reduce costs and improve customer service. Our data quality solution aims to be the internal data provider of choice within the firm by employing governance best practices, providing high-quality products and services […]

“Know yourself and know your enemy. You win all battles” – so states Sun Tzu in his Art of War. Other prominent leaders have also stressed the importance of good information. Knowing and understanding your business is essential for good decision making which has a direct impact on its performance. One could argue that many […]

Financial Markets Insights brings together the best minds in the financial and capital markets industry to discuss all the latest trends and news.

In this episode, Alan Vear – Director of Brickendon Consulting – met with podcast host George Aliferis to discuss the $200 or $300 trillion question of the transition to IBOR.

Wealth Management firms are facing challenges in providing the right set of information about their clients and about product & market details to their Relationship Managers which is impacting the efficiency and meaningfulness of client meetings.  This is reflected in the major trends observed in the area of Wealth Management:  Improved client experience and advisor […]

Where compression seeks to offset economically similar trades to reduce notional, optimisation seeks to free up committed margin and capital by placing a series of market risk-neutral trades.

A more sophisticated methodology has been introduced for calculating capital requirements with the aim of better capturing systemic risk; the downside being an increased regulatory burden on the banking system.