Konrad Litwin Global General Manager - Testing at Perforce Software
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
Jose Pierre CEO at Marketware International, Inc.
In the realm of cutting-edge technologies, two groundbreaking fields have captured significant attention: quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI). While they are distinct in nature, both possess immense potential to revolutionize businesses, particularly within the financial sector, including asset management, wealth management, banking...
24 May 2023 /devops /markets Innovation in Financial Services
Penny Townsend Co-Founder & CPO at Qualpay
As the broader economic landscape continues to challenge organizations and enterprises of all sizes, ISVs and developers must consider where there may be blindspots in their software. What are the opportunities that they’re missing? Where might they be losing out on key revenue-building opportunities? For many, a monetizing payments integration i...
10 May 2023 /payments /devops
Yaniv Zecharya CTO & CoFounder at FundGuard
Can there be too much of a good thing when it comes to the cloud? Cloud technology continues to bring great benefits to the financial services (FS) sector. Key advantages include improved business processes, enhanced productivity, and streamlined software development. Many cloud-native applications and solutions are even developed with these ben...
04 May 2023 /cloud /devops Cloud Migration
Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank
The recent wave of mass layoffs across the Fintech and Tech industries has left many feeling concerned about the future of these sectors. However, despite the significant job losses, there remains a sense of optimism for the industry as a whole. This optimism, unfortunately, is not rooted in the protection and stability of the workforce but rather...
01 May 2023 /payments /devops Banking
Retired Member
According to a 2022 study by ANIS (Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry) the Romanian IT market is dynamic and constantly growing, now reaching approximately 220.000 computer science and engineering specialists. Apart from their strong tech skills, the Romanian workforce also demonstrates very good business acumen and under...
18 April 2023 /people /devops
Jiri Kobelka CEO at Tatum
Despite its popularity and great utility, blockchain has been a difficult experience for many organizations, and countless ones have discovered—the hard way—how adding blockchain to applications may blow up schedules and ruin time-to-market plans. Building blockchain application from scratch is one of the more difficult software development challe...
08 April 2023 /devops /crypto
When it comes to credit risk monitoring, many banks find themselves falling behind the regulatory expectations. Regulators are expecting banks to take a more proactive approach, using forward-looking data and deploying a broader set of indicators in their early warning systems (EWS). The European Banking Authority (EBA) guidelines on loan originat...
05 April 2023 /regulation /devops Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
Last year September Ethereum blockchain entered a new phase in its Ethereum 2.0 journey. After launched the Beacon Chain in December 2020, a parallel blockchain which acts as consensus engine that runs on proof of stake, The Merge was concluded in September 2022 whereby the Beacon Chain and the Mainnet, the normal Ethereum blockchain, merged into ...
30 March 2023 /devops /crypto Blockchain Observations
Benny Boye Johansen Head of OpenAPI at Saxo Bank
As Saxo is working to create the vision for our next version of OpenAPI, we are looking for many sources of inspiration as to what needs to get improved. One initiative is a collaboration with the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School with the purpose to assess API quality and how different ways of working, different design me...
24 March 2023 /devops Open Banking
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