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Michiel Willems

Dutch newshound based in Barcelona and Nairobi, often seen chasing tomorrow's industry news in London and Singapore. Anything to tell or share? Michiel@QA-Financial.com or X: @NewsFromMichiel
New York City, one of the world's main banking hubs

UpSlide CEO claims banks are wasting millions on underutilised software

The investment banking sector is wasting millions on underutilised and badly managed software, according to an industry insider...
Richard Bishop at the QA Financial Forum London

ESG standards must include QA emissions, says Lloyds’ Richard Bishop

According to Richard Bishop, lead quality engineer at Lloyds Banking Group, software testing environments produce 120% more carbon emissions than...
Sanmat Jhanjhari at the QA Financial Forum London

Nationwide automates ‘everything but the coffee machine’

Sanmat Jhanjhari, DevOps lead at Nationwide, opens up about the automation journey that the UK retail bank started in 2018...
CEO Faisal Husain

Synechron pushes further into Europe with new Belgrade hub

The newest hub of Synechron, which primarily focuses on driving digital strategies in the financial services space, follows a range...
David Phillips has joined SmartBear

SmartBear signs up David Phillips in key role as finserv focus intensifies

The appointment comes as the software testing firm recently rolled out a number of new solutions amid an increased focus...
Huw Davies, the current chief executive officer of Ozone API

OBL teams up with UK startup to expand banks’ API testing ground

Speaking exclusively to QA Financial, Ozone API CEO Huw Davies explains the model bank acts as a reference implementation of...
Applitools CTO Adam Carmi at the QA Financial Forum London

Applitools CTO: ‘most test automation projects fail to scale’

Autonomous testing can change the QA game, according to Adam Carmi, a co-founder and the CTO of software testing giant...
Asia's largest banking hub, Singapore

Testing delivers best ROI from AI, says Tricentis APAC exec

Most DevOps practitioners say testing is the most valuable area for AI investment, according to Damien Wong of Tricentis...
Shotten (left) and Kivell at the QA Financial Forum London last month

Leveraging AI for testing within the insurance industry

At the recent QA Financial Forum London, Lee Kivell of Vitality and Aviram Shotten, CTO for EMEA at Qualitest, shared...
While close to three-quarters of banks globally continue to run on legacy core banking systems, IDC researchers found that the banking space is now fully aware of the need for a digital upgrade.

Digital resilience rapidly climbing banks’ priority ladder

While three-quarters of banks globally continue to run on legacy systems, the banking space is now fully aware of the...
Mit Saru, senior director at STOXX, at the QA Financial Forum London

STOXX: building an engineering capability from scratch

Mit Saru has been tasked with building a platform engineering capability from scratch for Deutsche-Börse data and index subsidiary STOXX...
Manhattan, one of the world's main banking hubs

The QA hurdles banks run into: cost, time, talent and accuracy

The implementation of AI tech in banks’ QA strategies may not be as straightforward as many make us believe...