If you’ve been following my blog, you’ve noticed that I have a passion for the topic of DevOps (you can read my previous posts here and here). Today I wanted to share how achieving the benefits of continuous delivery, or DevOps, goes beyond just changing processes and implementing new tools. It involves changing mindsets and…

Think of cloud as a cost savings move only? Think again. While it can often lower expenses due to its scalability, flexibility and the generally simpler integration of new technologies, it is so much more than “just” a cost reduction tool. According to the DTCC, the “capabilities, resiliency and security” offered by cloud computing have…

Robotic process automation (RPA) is transforming investment banking. New artificial intelligence (AI) applications are helping firms reduce operational costs, improve client satisfaction and decrease operational risk. Accenture’s Post Trade Processing platform alone currently deploys 55 robots to deal with more than 750,0000 transactions across six critical post-trade areas each day. These bots deliver for us…

Effectively managing potential trade settlement fails—when either the buyer does not deliver funds or the seller does not deliver securities in an appropriate form on settlement date—is a key element in driving efficiency across the entire securities market ecosystem. Even though most trading operations are driven by automatic STP processes today and many banks have…

For investment banks and capital markets firms struggling to keep pace with evolving market conditions, the cloud offers a number of significant opportunities. It can enable organizations to calculate pricing and risk more easily, optimize environments (right-sizing for testing and availability), process trades and transactions (with increased horizontal scalability and redundancy) and migrate function-based SaaS…

Full implementation of the European Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) are on the horizon following the final draft publication of the regulatory technical standards on the 25th May 2018, with final settlement discipline rules now entering into force in either Q3 or Q4 of 2020 following the finalization of the next consultation period. CSDR is…