DevOps - Long Reads, News, Articles & Research: Finextra

Creating a boundaryless experience: Maximising value for all stakeholders

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Creating a boundaryless experience: Maximising value for all stakeholders

For too long, financial players have focused on simply selling better products or services than their competitors. This approach fails to acknowledge the unique and multifarious needs of individual customers. With the xTech revolution and the emergence of embedded finance, boundaries between industries – and sometimes competitors – are beginning to...

21 June 2022 /devops

5 key tech priorities for fintech leaders in 2022

Retired Member

5 key tech priorities for fintech leaders in 2022

Technology in modern financial services can be a complex subject. This is what business leaders should focus on to build a winning tech strategy. Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change. Wh...

20 April 2022 /devops

Multicloud strategy guide: one cloud good, two clouds better?

Paige McNamee

Multicloud strategy guide: one cloud good, two clouds better?

Cloud-based computing is an integral element to any forward-looking digital transformation strategy for financial institutions. This article will explore the key attributes of multicloud adoption being undertaken by many financial institutions, and features commentary from Commerzbank, Wells Fargo, and McKinsey. Multicloud strategy is now increasi...

21 March 2022 /devops

From DevOps to NoOps: Are engineers’ jobs in jeopardy?

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

From DevOps to NoOps: Are engineers’ jobs in jeopardy?

In 2018, Microsoft Israel’s chief scientist, Tomer Simon, wrote an article titled, ‘Stop DevOps Before Someone Gets Hurt’. In it, he urged engineers to bypass DevOps and jump straight into ‘NoOps’. Irrespective of the merits of this approach, the most illuminating part of Simon’s recommendation is to figure the DevOps environment as a continuum – ...

14 March 2022 /devops

Chaos engineering: The art of failing gracefully

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Chaos engineering: The art of failing gracefully

A foray into the world of DevOps would be incomplete without a pitstop at chaos engineering, or – as Bola Rotibi, research director, software development and delivery, CCS Insight, calls it – the art of failing gracefully. So, what is it, how does it work, and why should financial institutions care about this apocalyptic-sounding, computer enginee...

10 February 2022 /devops

Lessons from A Space Odyssey: How to combat computer bugs

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Lessons from A Space Odyssey: How to combat computer bugs

Perhaps the most famous instance of a software bug in pop culture is Arthur C. Clarke’s HAL 9000, and its attempt to thwart Discovery One’s mission, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eventually, it is uncovered that the malevolent onboard computer malfunctioned because it was programmed against two opposing objectives: to divulge all its information, and ...

02 February 2022 /devops

Should we stop trying to make Open Banking happen when it’s not going to happen?

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

Should we stop trying to make Open Banking happen when it’s not going to happen?

Comments from Starling Bank’s Anne Boden at a House of Commons Treasury Select Committee at the end of 2021 struck a painful chord with several fintech founders. During an oral evidence session for the Future of Financial Services inquiry, Boden expressed her opinion that “Open Banking has not been successful.” This pronouncement of the failure of...

21 January 2022 /devops

Open Banking year four: Beyond the CMA9 and towards Open Finance

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Open Banking year four: Beyond the CMA9 and towards Open Finance

To mark the launch of the UK’s Open Banking initiative on 13 January 2018, Finextra typically reviews the progress of the experiment on this day each year. Over the past four years, the CMA9 - Lloyds, Barclays, Nationwide, RBS, Santander, Danske Bank, HSBC, Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland - have transformed data structures and security archi...

13 January 2022 /devops

Analysing cloud providers’ infrastructure management – the bank perspective

Paige McNamee

Analysing cloud providers’ infrastructure management – the bank perspective

Speaking with two banks with also almost opposite roles and histories, we try to understand how cloud is playing a role in their overarching technology strategy, and the challenges that cloud migration has thrown in their path. Gordon Mackechnie, chief technology officer at Deutsche Bank explains that the bank has effectively three partners for clo...

04 November 2021 /devops

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Building infrastructure

Recently I have been approached by a few people that agree with all my previous posts on agile, however, at the same time they question how it can work when it comes to building infrastructure. I get asked this because many will say, “surely at RTGS.global you're not following agile to build out the underlying infrastructure?” Now when I say infra...

29 September 2021 /devops

The Global Open Finance Challenge to lure cream of the fintech crop

Paige McNamee

The Global Open Finance Challenge to lure cream of the fintech crop

The recent announcement of the Global Open Finance Challenge has caused a stir across the fintech landscape – and with good reason. Speaking to Finextra about the upcoming global competition, representatives of NatWest Group revealed not only the motivations behind the bank’s decision to launch this initiative, but also the impressive bounty on of...

22 September 2021 /devops

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile series: Evolved roadmaps

In my last post within this series, I looked at roadmaps and how to build them in an agile environment. In this post I will share with you more the type of roadmaps I like to build. Following on from my last post, I received lots of questions around “dates” and maintenance of the roadmap, and while there are many ways to “skin a cat” as they say, ...

08 July 2021 /devops

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