Cybersecurity: Is your home the new office? “Working From Home” exposes the security landscape of your organisation: In this session our experts, Jason Harrell, Executive Director, Technology Risk Management, Head of Business and Government Cybersecurity Partnerships, Aman Sood, Chair, ISITC EUROPE Cybersecurity Forum and Michael Cheshire, CX Transformation EMEA, Verizon Enterprise Solutions talk about how COVID-19 has proven […]
Accelerated digital transformation is driving increasingly complex and distributed digital infrastructures; across on-premises, private cloud and public cloud platforms. The reality is that most organisations find themselves in this ‘hybrid reality’ – and will continue to do so for some time to come. Organisations are investing significant amounts of money into building modern dynamic hybrid […]
ISITC TalkTime Podcast: Getting to grips with resilience in the Cloud ISITC Europe talks to Alasdair Hodge, Chief Architect at Cloudsoft about getting to grips resilience in the Cloud. This Podcast is a source of important information, for senior professionals, within Capital Markets firms. Enabling them to understand, some of the benefits and uses of […]
Herbie Skeete has been a leading figure in ‘the City’ since the late seventies. Embarking on a hugely successful career, spanning the development and introduction of new technologies, which were the forerunner of what we recognise today. Herbie gives his personal recollections and views, through this dynamic period of development and change in the City, […]
Downtime is expensive. The average cost of unplanned application downtime at Tier One financial institutions exceeds $2.5bn every year, according to the IDC. The Operational Resilience of your business depends now more than ever on the availability of your IT systems. Critical systems and the applications which support them need to be available at all times, […]
Death by Cyber Attack Webinar The ability of cyber threats to compromise information systems is an ongoing danger to all organisations, however an emerging threat presents a new challenge, cyber-attacks that may cause physical harm to systems with the potential to kill the business. Financial services are among the most attractive targets for cyber attackers […]
ISITC TalkTime Podcast: Post-Trade Efficiency and Transformation ISITC Europe talks to Bob Santangelo from Broadridge about the need for post-trade efficiency and transformation. The discussion centres around the impact that the global pandemic has had on the need for banks and brokers to transform their processes to achieve greater post trade efficiency. Which has been exacerbated […]
An ISITC EUROPE/CISI joint Live Webcast – Bitcoin the world’s second currency! Wednesday 24th February 12.30:13.30 (GMT) 2020 saw a huge growth of investment in Bitcoin by the world’s leading investing institutions, pushing the price of bitcoin to record levels. Other cryptocurrencies have continued to enjoy growth and no doubt new cryptocurrencies will emerge. […]
At a recent webcast on the topic of reference data, with a panel of leading data experts including representatives from HSBC and Euroclear, which I had the privilege of moderating. The many problems of data in the Capital Markets, including reference data were put on the table and a range of potential solutions was discussed. […]
We need to talk post-trade : The problem with the status quo Even before the spring 2020 volatility, the need to invest in post-trade infrastructure across the sell-side was becoming widely accepted. Investment in the back-office has lagged that of the front-office for decades. In some institutions, front-office systems capable of executing thousands of trades a […]