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Decoupling critical financial services from unreliable IT systems
The UK Government (Treasury Committee) has recently published (October 2019) its report, ‘IT failures in the Financial Services Sector’. This report criticises both the banks, for an unacceptable level of service outages resulting from IT failures, and the regulators...
Statements of Work – An Agile approach to IT consulting
Specialist IT consultants undoubtedly deliver significant value to their customers. Indeed, many IT projects in the UK would simply not be possible without the specific technical know-how provided by external experts. Despite this, informal criticism of the way...
Beware the Taxman! New IR35 rules will impact IT consulting in financial services
For many years, UK financial services companies have been able to benefit from a large pool of highly-skilled technical IT specialists that can be engaged on a project basis, as needs arise. Most of these independent professionals have operated through their own...