Practice - Strategy Archives - Page 4 of 6

Location – getting to the right place in the right way and at the right time

By Blog-Publisher 20/07/2016Articles, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

Strategic Regulatory Reporting

By Blog-Publisher 04/05/2016Case Studies, Case Studies - Risk & Regulation, Case Studies - Strategy, Practice - Risk & Regulation, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

Why Change Fails: Part 3 of 3 – Technology

By Blog-Publisher 29/03/2016Articles, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

Banking and technology don’t go (yet)

By Blog-Publisher 01/03/2016Articles, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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 is the new ABC

By Blog-Publisher 25/01/2016Articles, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

Why change fails – Part 2 of 3: Process

By Blog-Publisher 14/12/2015Articles, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

Assumed Settlement Reconciliation

By Blog-Publisher 30/11/2015Case Studies, Case Studies - Strategy, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

Equity Swap Operating Model Implementation

By Blog-Publisher 11/11/2015Case Studies, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

Change: Soft Skills

By Blog-Publisher 04/11/2015Case Studies, Case Studies - Strategy, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

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…

OTC Derivatives Portal

By Blog-Publisher 03/11/2015Case Studies, Case Studies - Strategy, Practice - StrategyNo Comments

A large UK bank required a solution to advise OTC derivative traders if they could trade a derivative with a counterpartyThe ChallengesThe user interface must be quick and easy-to-use in…