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

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

The power of platforms and how banks can become one

Annerie Vreugdenhil Chief Innovation Officer at ING

The power of platforms and how banks can become one

When Apple launched its iPhone in 2007, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG were generating 90% of the mobile phone industry’s global profits. By 2015, Apple dominated the industry and the iPhone became one of the most sold devices in history. How did Apple overtake the world’s top mobile phone manufacturers in less than a decade? Beside...

07 July 2021 /devops

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Building roadmaps

The first, and probably most important thing to stress here is, you are building product roadmaps. The second thing to say is, do NOT build out product roadmaps at an executive level. All too often, product gets mixed in with strategy, as in, the executive think they are putting together strategy but rather they are talking products. To be frank, ...

14 May 2021 /devops

Agile Series: Including risk, compliance and internal audit

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Including risk, compliance and internal audit

This maybe the most 'controversial' article within this series, but it's potentially the one that could solve the most headaches, and for a COO/CIO/CTO maybe the one that removes the most stress, if risk, compliance, and internal audit are onboard. The truth across many functions within a financial institution is that they have not been exposed to ...

05 May 2021 /devops

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: DevOps

In all of the articles that make up this “Agile Series”, a fair few of the same themes keep on flowing richly through each article. This one is no different…If you want your teams to be autonomous, if you want your teams to build self-contained products, if you want to be able to value delivery, then you need your teams to be able to deploy their ...

15 April 2021 /devops

Agile Series: Enabling agile with your software architecture

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Enabling agile with your software architecture

If you have the wrong software architecture, then your ability to really implement an agile engineering culture will be dramatically hampered. In previous posts, you will have noted that I outlined three core principles I like to instil within any engineering department. These principles being: Value delivery over predictability Value principles ...

31 March 2021 /devops

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Motivating Engineers

If you have spent most of your working life outside any form of IT department or engineering team, you probably won’t have come across many of the personalities that you find within those areas. I have been a software engineer since graduating from university and I can safely say that we are a unique bunch, more so when compared against a cross se...

18 March 2021 /devops

Agile Series: Applying your values and principles

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Applying your values and principles

In the previous article, we looked at underlying core values and setting principles to help create the right environment in which a good effective agile engineering culture can grow. In this article, we will look at how you can apply these to really build a great engineering culture. You need to coach a team Like many people I have long followed ...

05 March 2021 /devops

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