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 […]
The central trading platform of one of Europe’s largest asset managers, trading a wide range of asset classes, had reached a de-facto end-of-life. Brickendon was initially engaged to undertake a review of the available applications in the market, to assess their suitability for the client’s business and to construct a business case supporting a recommended […]
The majority of market makers for financial products face very stiff competition to provide prices to their clients. Those who can provide their prices quickest to the market always get an edge on the competition, however, to provide an executable price to their clients, complex calculations are required in the background. Gathering all the input […]
Major banking and trading institutions that have implemented bespoke Distributed Sales Platforms (DSP) have witnessed greater market share, improved client satisfaction and increased profitability. Due to limited trade barriers and significant cost constraints (post the financial crisis), clients have moved towards institutions that have invested in their DSPs with relative ease and in a limited […]
Information Technology (IT) solutions are generally an expensive investment that require a substantial amount of lead time from inception to implementation. Prototyping delivers essential cost and time benefits to large scale projects through demonstrating key visual and functional elements and testing a multitude of concepts. A proof-of-concept prototype enables the rapid creation of a product […]
For many banks, client onboarding is a continual process involving dedicated departments who are subject to continual process refinement and standardisation. Conversely, offboarding is seen as a time-limited, one-off exercise. Brickendon Consultants have experienced the benefits of well-structured offboarding projects and of embedding offboarding into Business As Usual (BAU) processes. What is offboarding? Offboarding is the process […]