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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.
Latest Articles, Insight Papers & News
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,...
The perils of data monetisation
Data monetisation is not a new phenomenon , but it is one that is becoming increasingly complex with the proliferation of data in today’s society and the new rules surrounding data privacy. With less than two weeks to go until the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Brickendon Director Andrew Lawson looks at the issue in greater detail.
Out of sight out of mind – is it true GDPR only matters if you’re in the EU?
The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is due to come into force on May 25th and European companies are already preparing for its implementation. The question is whether this is enough? – Should firms from other parts of the globe be preparing too? Andrew Lawson, one of Brickendon’s US data experts, looks at what the new legislation, dubbed as having the greatest impact on data collection, storage and usage of any regulation in the last 20 years, means for US companies.
Brickendon takes on Toronto with a move into Canada
Brickendon has continued its rapid expansion with a move into Canada. The firm, which counts many large global institutions amongst its clients, has opened an office in Toronto to help grow the Brickendon brand in a new market place. This brings to four the number of...
Mythbusters: Breaking down DevOps misconceptions across financial services
Increasing numbers of business and IT teams are choosing to adopt DevOps and actively implement the process into their day-to-day operations. Brickendon's DevOps experts talk to DevOps Online about the numerous opportunities that can be reaped from implementing the...
Data science – it’s a tipping time for data
Data science is the future. With the proliferation of data in today’s society, extracting information is easy. The question is whether it’s the right information. That’s where data science comes in. Used correctly, data-driven science has the potential to clear up decades of incremental spaghetti and mismatched data sets and significantly improve your organisation’s bottom line.
Reimagining the banking sector
While noone can predict the future, we all like to have fun trying. Brickendon Partner Nathan Snyder looks at our theme for this year of ‘reimagining the banking sector’ and assesses what buzzwords financial services firms need to take note of to ensure they stay ahead of their competition.