by Robert Tripp | Oct 16, 2014 | Articles, Management Information
The success of a bank lies in the management and interplay between a number of important banking concepts. These concepts are manifested in the nature of a bank’s lending and borrowing habits, the quality of investments made by the bank and the conflict that exists...
by Robert Tripp | Nov 15, 2009 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, General, Management Information
Introduction The pressure UK Banks are under increasing pressure from a range of external stakeholders to clarify the real value and nature of their assets. This pressure is a response to economic events that thrust the banking sector under the spot light. There are...
by Robert Tripp | Jul 25, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
IBM spotting a market opportunity produced a piece of software called RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) which tried to centralise the security processing. This is illustrated in the diagram below. The key ideas are that there is a separate database of users,...
by Robert Tripp | Jul 24, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, General
The diagram below illustrates the nature of banking systems at this time. Basically the only technology used by most banks was the IBM mainframe hardware. Any software required to do something was written by the bank. Thus the bank wrote the business logic (“if...
by Robert Tripp | Aug 27, 2003 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
This page provides a detailed description of the assumptions on which the value model is based and the way in which the calculations of equivalent FTEs are calculated. This description is broken down into the key activities of a typical clearing Bank’s systems. Cash...
