Practice – Strategy & Advisory

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 in the financial sector due to increasing cyber threats, technological disruptions and regulatory scrutiny has gained importance over time. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) was introduced by the European Union in 2020 as part of Digital Finance Package to improve the financial sector’s ability to withstand ICT (Information and Communication […]

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 […]

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. As […]

Formulation of Strategy So how should this issue be addressed? There is no doubt that a clear, communicable, business-aligned vision of the future state is paramount to the successful execution of technological strategic plans. Corralling a broad set of potentially conflicting business requirements, technological innovation, people leadership, financial justification and risk management is no easy […]

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In this episode, Alan Vear – Director of Brickendon Consulting – met with podcast host George Aliferis to discuss the $200 or $300 trillion question of the transition to IBOR.

Employee Attrition is a new pandemic? According to multiple sources, 2021 saw a significant increase in voluntary staff turnover. Nearly 50% of respondents to a payscale.com survey, for example, reported higher voluntary staff turnover than in previous years, with 76% experiencing significantly more difficulty attracting appropriate talent than they have done previously. In the technology, […]