Bank tech outages up 138% but cyberattack not main threat
by Bija Knowles
Over-confidence in change management is main cause of financial services IT outages according to the Financial Conduct Authority
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The large majority of the work in a corporate treasury department is administration, transaction processing and non-discretionary decision making. This absorbs most of the time and resources in the department as the chart below shows. Balance of Time and Resources Employed in the Corporate Treasury Department… Read more about Operations
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