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RTGS outage

The worst RTGS outage in nearly a decade was resolved without too much loss of hair but will renew enthusiasm for a core settlement engine replacement due in 2024...

Citi CTO spearheads new pan-industry ‘Common Cloud Controls’ project at FINOS

Citi, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, LSEG, Natwest Group, and RBC are all participating amid concerns at the opacity of public cloud security and resilience tests and controls.

HSBC breached this banking rule 12,200 times. Regulators sigh wearily

"HSBC’s processes, systems and staff were not capable of detecting and reporting these breaches until December 2022. The inability for HSBC to determine the scale of these breaches due to the inadequacy of its systems and processes is a further concern."

Bank of England FinOps help

Central bank keen to "improve consumption-based spend and reporting and to be able to "make strategic TCO decisions on location of workloads..."

citi tech spend Q2 2023

Citigroup spent the equivalent to some $50 million on technology every single working day over the past quarter..

FIS sells Worldpay

Worldpay -- "a dozen payment M&A deals in a trenchcoat" -- will find a new home in the warm embrace of private equity after investment failings.

Bank of England Transforming Data Collection

"... a concept has been developed for a centralised solution that will provide firms with an automated classification answer."

hsbc quantum key distribution

Dust off your math, review the literature with some strong coffee; envision a future fresh from a William Gibson novel...

Banks’ IT spending in 2023 to hit $652 billion: Here's what some Big Spenders are focusing on...

From Citi's $1 billion "fat finger" and regulatory intervention driving a massive compliance overhaul, to major cloud migrations, spending continues at scale...

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