5 Results from 2014
Said Tabet Senior Technology Strategist, CTO Office at Dell EMC
Despite news that employment figures are increasing, UK retail spend has bounced back and broader trends such as house sales continue to maintain a steady rhythm, it may appear externally that the market is more stable than it has been for a number of years. Though this is true to an extent, stress tests from this week, which a number of UK inst...
23 December 2014 /regulation
A recent assessment of 300 business decision makers in the UK revealed that the Financial Services (FS) sector is falling behind when it comes to big data capabilities, particularly when scored against leadership, skills and infrastructure capabilities. This is hugely surprising. The FS industry is one that has always pursued technical supremacy. ...
21 October 2014
Last week the media was divided in its coverage of the new measures around bankers’ bonuses with some saying they “don’t go far enough” and others saying they’re “unnecessarily convoluted” and the “emphasis on bonuses is being vastly over-emphasised”. But the need for a 3, 5 or 7 year period to ‘discover’ excessive risk exposure in a world of real...
06 August 2014 /regulation
Earlier this week, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) called for greater collaboration between UK banking institutions, claiming that Britain's entire financial system is vulnerable to a cyber attack unless there is greater co-operation between the leading banks and law enforcement agencies. The topic of financial services and cybersecurity i...
13 June 2014 /security
I was interested, yet not surprised, to read over the weekend that Britain's banks were told by the Prudential Regulation Authority that they needed to spend billions overhauling IT systems over the next few years. The news won’t be a surprise to our banking institutions, as financial services IT systems were not designed to face today’s challenge...
07 April 2014 /regulation
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