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Robert Burch

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Bio Currently working on an implementation of Blackbaud eTapestry CRM software for a charity Career History Langham Partnership UKI Rose Castle Foundation Temenos, Misys/MKI/ACT FS/Quotient/Datacorp, Feba Radio, BBC.

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Standard Chartered bans Zoom over security fears

The latest Zoom update appears to have addressed a number of these concerns by making the default meetin settings very secure and removing some features that could be open to abuse.

16 Apr 2020 Reply Read article

A Perfect Core System that Never Made it to Market

Interesting article but I am not convinced even though I was working for Temenos at the time. My experience of merging/integrating two systems is that, because the data models are inevitably different, one always ends up with a lowest common denominator system. Using the Metavante experience to design new T24 modules rather than combining software would have worked, but would have been in danger of ending up with a US-centric system. The advantage T24 has over most of the systems developed in the US is that it is truly international.

24 Oct 2018 Reply Read article

Atom opens with a promise to change UK banking landscape

It's very innovative to use Unity for a banking app. It would be interesting to know how they have made it sufficiently secure.

07 Apr 2016 Reply Read article

Journalists expose NatWest mobile security flaws

The mobile phone companies need to improve their procedures too. My wife recently asked for a new SIM in a Vodafone store. She was asked for her name and phone number. No identity checks were done. They did not even check that the phone she brought to the store had the number she quoted.

07 Mar 2016 Reply Read article