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 […]
Formulation of Strategy So how should this issue be addressed? There is no doubt that a clear, communicable, business-aligned vision of the future state is paramount to the successful execution of technological strategic plans. Corralling a broad set of potentially conflicting business requirements, technological innovation, people leadership, financial justification and risk management is no easy […]
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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.
Employee Attrition is a new pandemic? According to multiple sources, 2021 saw a significant increase in voluntary staff turnover. Nearly 50% of respondents to a payscale.com survey, for example, reported higher voluntary staff turnover than in previous years, with 76% experiencing significantly more difficulty attracting appropriate talent than they have done previously. In the technology, […]
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.
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 […]
A major European bank required an integrated trade monitoring system. Brickendon was brought in to design and build a new system to replace the existing tactical system, which had been found to be unstable and unreliable. Alongside this project, the client requested a strategy proposal for a revised monitoring operating model. This model would alleviate […]
A prominent European Bank gained increased levels of risk transparency, reporting metrics and customer visibility through a clear future-proof OTC FX Clearing Implementation strategy.
Implementing trading algorithms to a large European Bank which incorporated its systematic trading models, client profiling and rules-based risk management, enabled trading to be done more proactively and efficiently that lead to lower running costs.