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Agile Series: Agile values and principles

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Agile values and principles

When we talk 'agile' there are a few big issues that I notice, especially from management and the executive within financial institutions. These are preconceptions, thoughts of what agile is, what agile means based on previous IT project type experiences or from what they have picked up listening to podcasts, reading articles like this or what the...

19 February 2021 /devops

Using technology to transform, not run around in circles

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

Using technology to transform, not run around in circles

It may strike some as self-evident, but we are the midst of one of the most rapid transformations in the history of the banking centre. At the core of this shift is digital transformation, as the banking industry looks to adapt and synthesise the incredible gains made elsewhere in society and make it relevant for how people save, invest and spend....

17 February 2021 /devops

Agile Series: Decoupled, distributed domains

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Decoupled, distributed domains

This is my first article in a series of articles aimed at helping financial services executives understand software concepts, design principles and how these contribute (and even shape) agile principles. As a result, I hope these articles illustrate just how effective agile can be, helping shape and cultivate different cultural behaviours across a...

12 February 2021 /devops

Platformification in banking: what lies ahead?

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Platformification in banking: what lies ahead?

Changing customer needs really tested the digital capabilities of financial institutions in 2020, spurring a huge acceleration in the pace of digital transformation across the industry. Around the world, branch closures show the dramatic shift that’s been taking place as customers move away from branch-based banking to online and mobile banking. A...

02 February 2021 /devops

Innovating financial services with open ecosystems

Janet Young Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation at UOB

Innovating financial services with open ecosystems

As greater digitalisation across the world pushes for more substantial innovations across sectors, the financial services industry has also seen the emergence of open ecosystems as a strategy to grow. Open ecosystems bring like-minded parties together to create more value for end users – be it consumers or businesses. It sets the stage for open app...

20 January 2021 /devops

TARGET2 incident illustrates the need for High Availability and DevOps

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

TARGET2 incident illustrates the need for High Availability and DevOps

The full story behind the recent TARGET2 outage is as yet not in the public domain, but from what we do know, the incident serves as a great use case for investment in DevOps and a move away from traditional Disaster Recovery type models. In a recent communication, the root cause of the incident was “found to be a software defect of a third-party ...

09 November 2020 /devops

Event Stream Processing: How Banks Can Overcome SQL and NoSQL Related Obstacles with Apache Kafka

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Event Stream Processing: How Banks Can Overcome SQL and NoSQL Related Obstacles with Apache Kafka

While getting to grips with open banking regulation, skyrocketing transaction volumes and expanding customer expectations, banks have been rolling out major transformations of data infrastructure and partnering with Silicon Valley’s most innovative tech companies to rebuild the banking business around a central nervous system. This can also be lab...

21 August 2020 /devops

Is Python storming ahead of Java in fintech?

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Is Python storming ahead of Java in fintech?

The use of Python is catching up to Java in banking and fintech applications, but what are the reasons behind the emergence of Python? While three million developers have joined the Java community in the past year, in the banking sector, Python is fast closing in on Java’s position in top spot. Python’s backstory in banking Across all sectors, Pyt...

18 March 2020 /devops

US community banks ask developers to help fix pain points

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US community banks ask developers to help fix pain points

A fresh challenge for developers In my last post, I wrote about the incredible efforts of the developer teams who took part in Finastra’s FusionONE Hackathon and the fintech apps that were created in just 48 hours. The hackathon showed what can be achieved if developers are given the freedom to get creative, and how innovation can occur rapidly i...

15 July 2019 /devops

FusionONE: a reboot for fintech and bank developers

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FusionONE: a reboot for fintech and bank developers

Recently, it was my pleasure to participate in FusionONE, Finastra’s first ever two-day developer conference at London’s Tobacco Dock. The event brought together business leaders and developers, and showcased Finastra’s open development platform, FusionFabric.cloud, as well as the 61 new APIs now accessible via the platform. Hundreds of developers ...

02 July 2019 /devops

Low-code - what are the implications for developers

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Low-code - what are the implications for developers

Modern application development is a complex business, requiring multiple language support, knowledge of tools to build, test and deploy applications, understanding of client experience, data handling, security skills and the ability to provide experiences on multiple channels including web, mobile and desktop. In addition, developers are adapting ...

20 May 2019 /devops

Fast feedback and rapid iteration: the new game changers for developers

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Fast feedback and rapid iteration: the new game changers for developers

While low-code programming is designed to speed up the development process and enable collaboration with others inside and outside the business, any modern software development platform is now designed to create opportunities for fast feedback, rapid iterations and quick system upgrades. But what does this all mean for legacy programmers migrating...

08 April 2019 /devops

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