Reimagining the banking sector – staying ahead of the buzzwords Business, and particularly banking, is all about buzzwords. Whether it’s DevOps, Big Data, robotics or Blockchain, most people have been talking and reading about them for a while now – and in the background, a few teams have actually been practicing them. Here at Brickendon, […]
One year on from the triggering of Article 50, and despite the headwinds caused by the political instability, the UK and EU27 countries have managed to agree on a transition period that will allow financial services firms to continue to benefit from passporting permissions until the end of 2020. While this political agreement creates a […]
With just one year to go until the UK officially leaves the EU, the future still remains unclear. Despite the headwinds caused by the political instability, the UK and EU27 countries have managed to agree on a transition period, but beyond that there is still much debate about how the financial services sector will look […]
It will take a combination of hot topics to change the financial services game in 2018, say Brickendon’s experts. 2017 may now be behind us, but the year of the Rooster’s hot topics of data, Brexit and regulation are not. According to Brickendon’s senior leadership team, the very same topics, with a sprinkling of digitalisation, Blockchain, cloud enablement and […]
Britain’s decision to leave the EU means many things for the financial services sector, including the possibility of being unable to properly service clients in all regions post-Brexit. Failing to act now to assess the impact the UK’s pending departure from the EU could have on your business is fatal. The key is to know […]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25th May 2018. By this date, organisations holding personal data for their EU customers and employees must be able to demonstrate compliance with the new regulations. The aim of GDPR is to enable data subjects (the individuals whose data is held) to have more control […]
Brickendon Consulting has been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the DevOps Industry Awards. Brickendon, two-time winner of the European Software Testing Awards, won its first ever finalist nomination in the DevOps Awards for a project which reduced testing and business analysis time by around 80 per cent and significantly cut overall costs […]
A large international bank was struggling to keep its global DevOps programme on track and realise the full range of benefits. The bank engaged Brickendon to help speed up the implementation of the programme and to ensure the organisation adopted agile and DevOps practices globally. Brickendon’s experienced DevOps specialists were able to successfully embed DevOps […]
If Brexit has done one thing, it is to create yet more uncertainty in the financial sector. Immediately after the referendum, the media was rife with reports that banks were making plans to shift staff and operations from London to EU cities such as Frankfurt and Brussels. Failing to do this and maintaining large operations […]
By Brickendon Principal Consultant Jonathan Pell What do UBS, Macquarie Bank, National Australia Bank, Google, Microsoft, KPMG and Ernst & Young all have in common? Yes, they are all global organisations, but more importantly, they have all embraced, and are advocates of, flexible and activity-based working. In today’s environment where budgets are being squeezed by […]