The global banking system ended last year with fresh regulations, headlinemaking cyber breaches, and a record $80 billion spent on risk and compliance, according to the FDIC 2024 Risk Review. New rules under Basel III’s “Endgame” will raise capital requirements. The Basel III Monitoring Report indicates an average increase in risk-weighted assets of roughly
If you normally picture a quant writing C++ all day, that’s a pretty good impression of a Quantitative Developer. If your image of a quant is, say, someone tweaking a Value‑at‑Risk model, then that’s closer to a Quantitative Analyst. But there’s a third “quant” role. A Quantitative Researcher is a
You might be seeing that trading desks and risk hubs keep posting “quant” vacancies, yet many ads mix two very different profiles. Well, that’s because the two different “quant” roles specialize in different skills. Below is a quick look at how a Quantitative Developer and a Quantitative Analyst differ, and
In recent years, we have seen Polish companies lean hard into cloud, containers, and automation. One additional requirement for this to work is having hands-on experts to keep those pipelines running smoothly. In the Linux Foundation’s 2024 State of Tech Talent survey, 51% of organisations worldwide said DevOps is now
Cybercrime is becoming increasingly expensive for companies across the board. IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach 2024 report puts the global average loss at USD $4.88 million, up 10% in a single year. It notes that attacks on critical infrastructure now average approximately USD $5.35 million per incident, and breaches involving public-cloud workloads average
Cloud computing has become a significant boon for businesses, but finding and hiring excellent cloud administrators has not been easy, given the rapid surge in demand. Cloud computing is essentially just swapping from racking servers in your building to spinning them up online. That simple switch has turned into big
If you don’t know that Java and JavaScript are not the same, then this story may not be for you. It’s not just that these technologies are different, they are completely unrelated. Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. JavaScript drives web
Each year the UNCHAIN Fintech Festival draws together the fintech, banking, startup, investment, and wider tech communities of Central and Eastern Europe. The annual event, now in its further year, is fast becoming the nexus for the financial industry and financial technology providers to come together. This year, like each
One of the most prominent global systematically important banks to embrace flexible working so far has been Citi. The bank allows most of its employees to work remotely up to two days a week. Many other leaders in the banking sector see things differently. They say that working from the
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