Cyber security is costing Britain’s businesses an estimated £34 billion a year as they seek to repair damage caused by security breaches and to beef up security to prevent attacks. This latest research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research and US application security firm Veracode found that just over half of the total […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
The majority of market makers for financial products face very stiff competition to provide prices to their clients. Those who can provide their prices quickest to the market always get an edge on the competition, however, to provide an executable price to their clients, complex calculations are required in the background. Gathering all the input […]
Following the banking crisis, margins have decreased and competition has increased, leaving fewer untapped areas of revenue generation. Many banks are now turning their focus inwards, reconsidering the way they generate Sales Management Information (MI) and redefining how this is used to reach out to clients. This introspection has revealed that many banks are unable […]
The rise of electronic and algorithmic trading has led to larger volumes of market data during a trading session. Fast asset classes such as equities and FX often challenge the network bandwidth during busy market conditions. FIX has become the prominent protocol for market data. FIX is however very verbose and its performance limitations have […]
Since the breakthrough of social networks the way people interact and communicate has changed in an astonishing way. Newly presented numbers in a study on social media show that social networks are estimated to reach 2.55 billion people by the year of 2017. Given the world’s population now stands at more than seven billion people […]
Under the new European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR) both counterparties involved in a trade are required to report their side of the transaction to a Trade Repository (TR). While financial counterparties and large organisations are able to meet these requirements themselves, smaller operations and individuals may not have the resources to invest in the necessary […]