22 May 2023
‘Mainframe is dead!’ has long been a cry within the IT industry but the reality is, many organisations still rely heavily upon mainframes with data sitting on them around the 12EB (yes, exabyte) mark and growing at approximately 10-20% per year. This is especially true in financial services where still a lot of the ‘crown jewels’ are kept. Mainfram...
09 Feb 2023
Big Tech’s influence is becoming more and overarching across numerous different sectors. From retail to politics, Big Tech is slowly infiltrating our lives. One sector which is trying to ensure it keeps some control is the financial services sector. Last July, the Bank of International Settlements published a paper arguing that the reliance of fin...
27 Oct 2022
People and businesses around the world create a staggering 1,145 trillion megabytes of data per day. Data is transforming all our lives, from accelerating the diagnosis of diseases to optimising retail pricing. Data fuels AI technologies and AI can only be as good as the information which it harnesses. According to PwC, AI has the potential to co...
24 Aug 2022
The financial services (FS) sector is the engine behind the economy of the United Kingdom and virtually every other developed economy, contributing around 8.6% to the total economic output in the UK. Resilience is therefore critical for the FS sector, to keep the lights of the UK economy firmly ‘on’ for both businesses and the people that rely on ...