A large global banking client was seeking to transform the way that data was used within its Investment Bank. The aim was to manage the data more efficiently, consistently and…
By Aysha Wahid and Rizwan Hasan.Location strategy is one of the few change programmes within the financial services sector that touches every part of the organisation. This inclusion of all…
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…
In this final part of our series of articles on change, we look at technology-related factors that contribute to the failure of change initiatives. We will specifically focus on the…
Failure to acknowledge the importance of technology in today’s financial services sector will leave some large incumbent banks fighting for survival, a top banker has said.Speaking to an audience at…
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is widely used as the lingua franca for information exchange in banks and financial institutions but its importance is often overlooked. Failure to adopt XML and…
This is the second in a series of three articles published in our Brickendon Journals. The articles explore some of the underlying patterns associated with change failure by looking at…
A large international bank was struggling with the reconciliation between assumed and the actual settlement of trades, which was costing them large amounts of money and considerable man hours. Brickendon…
A major US Custodian bank was undertaking a full front-to-back build out of an entirely new equity derivative product, which needed to be integrated into the organisation’s existing infrastructure. The…
The client needed an experienced programme manager with strong soft skills to help reorganise and reinvigorate a team seeking to recover from recent issues and deliver large-scale reference data change.The…