Banking Architecture

What can financial services learn from Big Tech? Adopt a similar approach to data architecture

24 Aug 2020

Many tech stocks continue their meteoric rise, despite the worsening economic downturn. On Wednesday this week Apple became Wall Street's first $2tn company. In my last Finextra article I mentioned that Apple, along with the other big four, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook, now make up a quarter of the S&P 500. We are seeing new investm...

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Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

What COVID-19 has taught banks about moving to the Cloud

25 Jun 2020

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, my nine-year-old daughter’s adoption of digital technology accelerated overnight. She suddenly had to master email, an online calendar and Google Classroom for homeschooling. She did this on an inherited iMac, older than she is. I was largely tasked with supporting this transition, whilst juggling my own day-to-day work...