Profile

Location

Cotswolds

Member since

2006

Reads

The Kepplewray Project Sunny Bank Farm Rose Castle Foundation

Robert Burch

Consultant at Independent Consultant

Message Posts: 0 Comments: 8

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.

Robert is Commenting on

Lloyds Bank cuts risk dept headcount

Completely agree Peter. This is either a very odd decision or a badly worded announcement. Knowing the risk of doing anything is vital. That knowledge should then be used to calculate the reward necessary to justify the risk. If the reward looks unachievable, then the risk should not be taken.

11 Apr 2024 Reply Read article

Chase customers become instant billionaires

Chase should at least pay interest on these sums to the people whose accounts were in error and, perhaps, double interest to those where the error was a negative amount. I make it about $136,000 a day at 0.1% on $50B

05 Jul 2021 Reply Read article

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