Brickendon helped a global European bank deliver front-to back contingent liability capabilities. The bank had a number of credit problems and the aim was to manage the risks associated with the downgrade of the bank’s own credit rating across various parts of the business. Specific areas needing to be addressed included global derivatives, SPV, CCP, […]
An international tier-one bank was implementing a Trade Data Repository (TDR) and required advice, management and expertise across a variety of problem spaces. A large team had been assembled to work on various aspects across the platform and Brickendon was asked to provide expertise to develop solutions across the entire range of activities. The original […]
Brickendon created a customised delivery framework to enable the upgrade of a global payment’s platform for a large US bank, which processes daily payments worth US$1 trillion notional.Brickendon’s full-suite solution from advisory to implementation included appropriate checkpoints, encouraged full buy-in from leadership and enabled the transformation of the business. Client Challenges The client had many […]
Brickendon was engaged in a Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) optimisation programme which achieved a multi- billion dollar RWA reduction, representing a quarter of the overall original RWA.The programme addressed the underlying data quality issues which were also highlighted by the Basel committee in the finalizing Basel III Rules paper. Client Challenges: The client had many […]
Many clients are unaware of the maturity of their software testing. Being able to accurately assess both the actual and desired maturity of the organisation’s Quality Assurance (QA) function is a huge benefit. Brickendon have a 78 or 148 point process to measure and assess this function using our QMM methodology and make recommendations for […]
A large client was changing the way it managed its projects and wanted to establish a performance management framework to track and monitor success and non performance.It called on Brickendon to analyse the different stages of multiple ongoing projects and holistically evaluate the overall PMO & project management process. The aim was to highlight key […]
A prominent European bank with global interests and a large presence in emerging markets was replacing its legacy FX platform with a new system from a different vendor. The project had been significantly overrunning and the business required an urgent review of progress and approach.The client engaged Brickendon to conduct a review into the project […]
Brickendon was engaged by a global bank to rollout DevOps across their organisation. Our specialists were able to successfully embed DevOps within the organisation globally, working directly with development teams, senior management, country heads and C-suite executives to increase the number of releases and decrease the number of incidents impacting the business. The team worked […]
A global banking client was faced with needing to release software into a live trading application which was used by their sales and trading teams in 20 countries. The system needed to be up and live 24/5.5. Brickendon’s experts successfully led a global agile programme to facilitate the testing of the client’secommerce front-office application. Brickendon […]
A Tier 1 investment bank was seeking to improve its testing processes and was keen to implement Brickendon’s specialized, award winning approaches. The bank engaged Brickendon to implement the bespoke approaches and to train its own staff to use the Brickendon processes efficiently and effectively. The result was the reduction of a three-week testing cycle […]