Technology

Executive Overview We help organisations improve software quality, reduce defects, and accelerate delivery by implementing a structured Test-Driven Development optimisation framework aligned directly to business requirements. Our approach ensures that test cases are defined before development begins, giving engineering teams absolute clarity on expected outcomes and reducing ambiguity in implementation. Instead of relying on post-development […]

Executive Overview The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) represents one of the most significant reforms to market risk capital requirements under Basel III. This sets a clear expectation for banks which must fundamentally change how they measure, manage, and capitalise market risk. This is not a refinement of existing frameworks. It is a […]

Executive Overview Failing banking programmes rarely collapse without warning. They show clear signs of stress long before failure becomes visible, but those signals are often ignored, softened, or misinterpreted. By the time leadership recognises the programme is off-track, delivery confidence has already declined, timelines are compromised, and recovery is materially harder. The difference between programmes […]

Executive Overview Delivering a banking programme under regulatory scrutiny is fundamentally different from standard programme delivery. The presence of regulators such as the PRA, FCA, or ECB changes the operating environment in ways that most organisations underestimate. Expectations are higher, tolerance for ambiguity is lower, and the consequences of failure are immediate and visible. Programmes […]

Executive Overview Operational resilience is no longer a compliance exercise. It is a delivery challenge. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) sets a clear expectation: financial institutions must be able to withstand, respond to, and recover from  Information and Communication Technology (ICT) disruption without impacting critical services. Under PRA, FCA, and ECB scrutiny, failure is […]

To Strengthen Control, Compliance and Competitive Advantage with Brickendon’s Data Solutions Executive Overview As we enter 2026, the regulatory banking landscape is defined by heightened supervisory scrutiny, accelerated digital transformation, AI-enabled decisioning, and increasingly complex data ecosystems. Financial institutions are expected not only to meet evolving regulatory obligations, but to demonstrate control, transparency and resilience […]

Firms that manage these risks effectively will gain a clear competitive advantage. Executive Overview The migration from SWIFT MT messages to ISO 20022 represents one of the most significant changes to global payments in decades. While many institutions have focused on meeting technical deadlines, experience across the industry shows that the real challenge is not […]

Overview Innovation is not a new concept but embracing it rapidly and adapting to the disruption it brings is going to be key in 2025. Those that fail to innovate, and in particular quickly embrace technological innovations to enhance their core offerings, risk being left behind in the race to triumph in the financial markets. […]

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 […]

Inspired by use in the tech industry, financial firms are embracing biometrics as a way of improving banking security.