Konrad Litwin Global General Manager - Testing at Perforce Software
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 ...
21 November 2023 /devops
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
12 June 2023 /devops Digital Banking
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 ...
21 April 2022 /devops
As financial organisations continue their digital transformation, using a cloud-based infrastructure is no longer a choice: it has become a must-have. The debate lies in choosing the right type of cloud environment and the associated tools and processes. There are multiple aspects to bear in mind, and this article does not cover every single one o...
30 April 2021 /cloud /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
When developing financial software, code reviews are critical, because whether or not they are mandated by policy or law, they help to find and sort out issues early. After all, introducing software with problems is expensive, time-consuming and a very real business risk. Code reviews encourage better, more consistent coding practices across teams...
25 November 2020 /devops
Using advanced mathematical modelling for calculating, predicting and evaluating risk is nothing new. Financial institutions of all kinds have long been using numerical libraries, whether home-grown or from a third party, containing mathematical, statistical and — increasingly — machine learning algorithms. However, the increasing complexity, mark...
08 June 2020 Analytics in Banking
The UK’s own Open Banking Standards and the European Payment Services Directive current wave (PSD2) are both indications that a more open approach to transactions between financial services institutions and their customers continues to gain groundswell. The idea is sound: use application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect all the currently...
25 November 2019 /security API
2019 is a landmark year for the mobile industry: the introduction of foldable smartphones by firms including Huawei, LG and Samsung is one of the most significant developments that market sector has seen for years. As well as presenting design challenges for device manufacturers, it also means that any app running on foldable phones will need to s...
20 August 2019 /devops Bigger than Technology
In the compliance and regulation-driven financial services market, we all know that audits are a fact of life. What is perhaps less well-known is that software development is also subject to these audits. It makes sense because after all, software is at the heart of most financial products these days and it can be an area of risk if not managed ...
29 March 2019 /regulation Banking Regulations
DevOps: spend more than five minutes looking at any IT-related website or magazine and it would be easy to assume that it is the saviour of modern-day software development. Based on the concept of breaking down the traditional barriers between software development and operations teams, it promises a more collaborative and transparent working envir...
09 November 2018 Innovation in Financial Services
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