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Brickendon is an award-winning transformational management and technology consultancy, specialising in innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Our people are intelligent and focussed high achievers, with an average of 10 years’ domain experience. Every member brings the best process and expertise from their past to continually improve how we, at Brickendon, improve things for our clients.
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GDPR – have businesses missed a trick by not thinking globally? Brickendon features in GDPR:Report
The deadline for compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may now be behind us, but there is still no room for complacency. While companies within the EU are well aware of the implications of non-compliance - fines of as much as €20 million or...
A Testing Centre of Excellence is all about uniformity and continuity
One of the biggest challenges in the testing world is how to achieve an efficient and robust testing service model across the organisation’s entire IT department without introducing operational risk. Here, one of Brickendon’s testing experts, Director Iya Datikashvili, looks at how adopting a Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) can help.
Brickendon names Clare Chalmers as a non-executive director
Brickendon has strengthened its executive board with the appointment of Clare Chalmers as a non-executive director. Her role is to advise the fast-growing transformational consultancy on growth and strategy. Chalmers, who specialises in advising financial services...
Managed Service – it’s an all-inclusive offering
A managed service offering is all about improving operations and reducing overheads. Gone are the days of shipping out the testing function to one location and development to another purely to cut costs. Today, the key is that the managed service provider takes managerial responsibility for certain business functions with the aim of utilising cheaper resources based overseas but maintaining the responsibility and quality expected in the home location. The demand for these services is growing fast. Here Brickendon Partner Lee Pittaway outlines what Brickendon is doing to develop our own offering in this area.
Brickendon achieves 300% growth
Challenger Consultancy achieves substantial growth in an uncertain market Brickendon has today revealed 300 per cent growth since 2012 (1) as it celebrates eight years of success and significant expansion despite challenging market conditions. With reports speculating...
Brickendon’s Nathan Snyder joins the FT’s latest GDPR discussion
Brickendon Partner and Data Specialist Nathan Snyder joins the Financial Times' discussion on GDPR, adding his take on what it means for businesses outside of the EU. As the head of our US operation based in New York, he is well aware of the possible impacts on US...
Open banking is an opportunity for all
The banking revolution is upon us. In a market where competition is already fierce, new initiatives and regulations such as Open Banking in the UK and the second Payments Services Directive (PSD2) in Europe are seeking to modernise the banking offering, giving innovative FinTech firms and payments specialists the opportunity to play the incumbent banks at their own game. Who will emerge as the winner remains to be seen, but the consumer has a lot to gain from their attempts to dominate the market. Corneliu Dicusar, a senior consultant and data specialist at Brickendon, looks at what open banking really is and why it matters to both the consumer and the financial institutions.
Data portability – an opportunity or a challenge? Brickendon talks to International Finance Magazine
In today's data-driven society things are changing fast. Banks and other organisations need to embrace change and adapt in order to survive. Data portability, a relatively new concept born out of the new Open Banking legislation, is providing a raft of opportunities,...