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Said Tabet

Senior Technology Strategist, CTO Office

Dell EMC

Member since

15 Jan 2014

Location

Boston

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Tackling Regulation and Ensuring Financial Services Organisations are Compliant

2016 is set to be another milestone year in financial services. New challengers in and beyond the sector are launching disruptive innovations that are threating the traditional players in the market in areas like payments and loans. At the same time, a number of regulatory changes are also set to challenge organisations as they work to ensure the...

17 December 2015

Black Friday: Should we be worried about our transactions?

The Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend marks one of the busiest shopping periods in the UK. The tradition, which originated in the US, where it follows Thanksgiving Thursday, arrived in the UK a few years ago. This year, it falls on the 27th November. While many shoppers are getting excited about bargain deals, not all UK retailers are happy ab...

26 November 2015 /retail

Why a 'Clandestine cloud culture' is threatening FS data

The past few years have seen a wide shift across all kinds of organisations towards harnessing digital technologies. Gartner calls this ‘The Digital Industrial Economy’, where every business wants to become a digital leader and every company a technology company. Whilst this is happening across many industries, the Financial Services (FS) sector i...

14 September 2015 /security /regulation

The three key considerations for tackling cyber-attacks in the financial sector

Cybersecurity has become one of the top agenda points for every boardroom in the financial services industry and we're starting to see the appointment of more chief risk officers, along with those appointed rising through the executive ranks. Alongside this shift, cyber attacks are taking place on a daily basis, and most financial services organis...

31 July 2015 /security /regulation

Seven key guiding principles for delivering PaaS to drive innovation in Financial Services

At a recent meeting of technical leaders in the financial services community, we picked up on a previous discussion around Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and how, under continuous pressure to evolve and keep up with fierce competition, organisations within the financial services sector need to continuously adapt to meet – and even exceed - customer a...

13 July 2015

Six things financial services technical leaders need to consider around open source software

At a recent meeting of technical leaders in the financial services community, we hosted a rich and vibrant discussion around the role of open source in their community. There was a wide ranging consensus and a number of key areas of focus emerged. The broader context is that businesses in general are increasingly moving to an open source first mod...

05 June 2015

Why Financial Services Shouldn't Shy Away from a Platform Shift

Financial Services (FS) organisations are hugely complex in terms of their business operations; they have retail arms, investment and fund management operations, insurance businesses and more. Many of their systems and operational norms are audited and regulated by bodies such as the Financial Conduct Authority. As such, they tend to have correspo...

13 April 2015

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