Architecture

This is the second in a series of four posts on the Open Banking Standard (OBS) in the UK. This second post will briefly look at the strategic drivers for…

THE STATE OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES IT ARCHITECTURE… This blog has time & again discussed how Global, Domestic and Regional banks need to be innovative with their IT platform to constantly evolve…

“Millennials want “finance at their fingertips”..they want to be able to email and text the financial advisors and talk to them on a real-time basis,” – Greg Fleming, Ex-Morgan Stanley The…

The first post in this four part series on Data lakes will focus on the business reasons to create one. The second post will delve deeper into the technology considerations & choices around data…

The first blog of this four part series introduced a key business issue in the Digital Age – Cybersecurity. We also briefly touched upon responses that are being put in place by…

The previous two posts have covered the business & strategic need for Wealth Management IT applications to reimagine themselves to support their clients. How is this to be accomplished and…

The easiest, as well as the most comprehensive way, to define the Blockchain (BC) would be to to call it a “a highly secure, resilient, algorithmic & accurate globally distributed…

This article is the second installment in a three part series that covers one of the most critical issues facing the financial industry – Payment Card Fraud. While the first (and previous) post discussed…

This article is the second installment in a three part series that talks about the business issues being faced by large trading operations & infrastructures in Capital Markets space. This post…

Risk management is not just a defensive business imperative but the best managed banks deploy their capital to obtain the best possible business outcomes. The last few posts have more…