Practice – Digital & Technology

Brickendon Solution – AIRT

Brickendon Solution – AIRT

STRATEGIC DATA ORGANISATION SOLUTION The current test management process poses several challenges for most IT departments. Brickendon’s Automated Intelligent Regression Testing Solution helps address these issues, ensuring a higher quality, lower cost result, which reduces risk and provides end-to-end visibility over the whole process. Let Brickendon’s expert testing consultants show you how: View PDF

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BCBS 239 Compliance

BCBS 239 Compliance

A large global bank needed support to consolidate its regulatory reporting with BCBS 239 (principles for effective risk data aggregation and reporting). Brickendon was called upon to develop a mechanism to support the bank’s attestation to the regulator and provide a robust interpretation of the regulation itself to drive minimum standards of compliance. The Challenges […]

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Location Strategy

Location Strategy

Location Strategy should form a key part of any successful organisation’s corporate strategy and carried out correctly, can reduce a company’s operating costs by as much as 60%. Brickendon has significant expertise in this area and our highly-skilled and experienced consultants can provide the analysis, advice and bespoke solutions to maximise the opportunities and minimise the risks and costs associated with running your business.

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If you want to test it properly, contain it….

If you want to test it properly, contain it….

In life, no two situations are the same, or so the saying goes. The same can be said for testing environments. Test something in one, it works. Test it in another, it doesn’t. The key is consistency. “Ensuring software runs perfectly when moved from one computing environment to another can be problematic,” says Bala Ethirajalu, […]

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Brickendon Wins Top Prize at European Testing Awards

Brickendon Wins Top Prize at European Testing Awards

Brickendon Consulting, the award-winning financial management and technology consultancy, received the Best Overall Testing Project in the Finance category at last night’s prestigious European Software Testing Awards ceremony. The awards celebrate companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements in the software testing and quality assurance market. Awarded to the most outstanding testing project in […]

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Brickendon named as finalist in European testing awards for fourth year running

Brickendon named as finalist in European testing awards for fourth year running

Brickendon Consulting has been nominated as a finalist in the European software testing awards for the fourth year running. This time in the best overall testing project, finance, category. Brickendon, which has recently expanded its operations to New York, won the nomination for a project which reduced the test run-rate of a new eCommerce platform […]

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Testing + Operations = TestOps

Testing + Operations = TestOps

By Bala Ethirajalu. Traditionally testing and operations are two different things carried out in isolation with an imaginary wall between them. Testing is done on one side, and once complete, the testers effectively throw the delivery over the fence to the operations team who deploy it into production. As a result, no one is accountable […]

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Test Management

Test Management

A Tier 1 investment bank was seeking to improve its testing processes and was keen to implement Brickendon’s specialised 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 to six […]

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Regulatory Compliance (Swap dealing in relation to Dodd Frank)

Regulatory Compliance (Swap dealing in relation to Dodd Frank)

Under the Dodd Frank Act, UK swap dealing entities are required to report annually to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the US. The process to support this reporting involves a vast and detailed attestation process, whereby control owners are held accountable for their part in regulatory compliance, providing information on the processes they are […]

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Onshore, Offshore, Nearshore?

Onshore, Offshore, Nearshore?

First it was Dehli, then came Bangalore and Pune. Now, Eastern European cities such as Gdansk and Wroclaw are joining the offshoring party, with multinational banks, including Credit Suisse and UBS, reportedly opening or augmenting offices in Poland. Banks that have traditionally moved back-office work to low-cost destinations, such as India, where the average monthly […]

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