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03 Jun 2020
Multiple US state government departments were in the news recently, calling for COBOL programmers to come forward as their mainframe systems failed to handle a surge in unemployment claims processing – a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is common for an emergency to shed light on an otherwise darkened corner of our technical infrastructure, but ...
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17 Jun 2019
The insurance industry is ripe with innovation. Tempted by the fruits of technological change, insurers seek greater opportunities for data collection, smart, adaptive policies and fraud detection that can lead to better risk identification and mitigation measures. For traditional players, existing IT infrastructure stands firmly in the way of thi...
22 Mar 2018
The Challenge for Traditional Banks The challenge for many financial organisations, when enhancing digital services, is that the well-established portion of the financial industry, much like the global public sector, remains awash with legacy systems born during the first financial tech revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. These systems continue to ...