06 Jun 2024
July 17 2024 marks six months to January 17 2025’s introduction of the Europe’s Digital Operational Response Act (DORA), which aims to improve digital resilience in 21 financial entity types and includes more stringent rules around ICT security and risks. With the scale of security risks and dependency on software systems only increasing, DORA’s i...
21 Nov 2023
PCI DSS, GDPR, Sarbanes-Oxley, the EU Cybersecurity Strategy and Cybersecurity Act, the recently revised Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS2)… the list of regulations that apply to financial services organisations continues to grow, and complying with all of them continues to be a challenge. Apart from fines, non-compliance could lead ...
12 Jun 2023
When it comes to testing the performance of their applications, retailers have somewhat more of a predictable workload. They already know the busy times – Black Friday and the week before Christmas, for example. This makes capacity planning and software testing more straightforward. The financial sector, on the other hand, doesn’t have this luxu
21 Apr 2022
With the advent of DevOps, testing plays more of a starring role in developing financial services software, but many still view it as an annoying bottleneck. Within that, the biggest bottleneck of all is locating quality test data (the information against which to carry out a test). Searching or waiting for someone to generate that information is ...