Beneath the Surface of Financial Services Part I: Why I Care I did not grow up understanding money. I did not know how saving worked, what investing meant or why people planned for their financial future as if it were obvious. Sure, I had a piggy bank, but that was the extent of it. The closest
Technology The 5 stages of AI grief A few years ago, I was sat at the back of a town hall meeting at 11:FS, as our CEO talked through our strategy for the year and where he saw the major focus points and innovation opportunities. "...and of course, AI is going to be huge. It&
Architecture What does a composable architecture mean to us? The FoundryOS platform offers multi-dimensional composability that allows you to go-to-market faster and to build more flexible solutions Most people view a composable architecture as a set of independent and reusable “building blocks” connected via APIs. This is all very powerful, allowing the blocks to be swapped, upgraded and combined
People What impact do you want to make? When we bring a new engineer into FoundryOS, there’s one clear expectation: Ship code to live within 3 weeks of joining. This isn't a KPI. It’s not about pressure. It’s about impact. Nothing kills energy faster than sitting in meetings, talking about problems, debating hypotheticals.
Architecture Identity data is much more than compliance FoundryOS’s identity data gives you a foundational ‘customer genome’ for disruptive digital solutions A customer genome is not a new concept but at FoundryOS we believe a digital solution needs to focus around an ‘audience of one’. Every individual customer has a unique genome consisting of observed and verified
Architecture Why do banks never turn any technology off? Let’s be honest it isn’t just banks, it's most big companies. A new system is brought in but the “legacy” system isn’t turned off and runs alongside the new system for ever - less usage but still there… Leaving an ongoing legacy of complexity and
Identity How do you store your identity data? Have you ever been asked by Compliance or the Regulator about historic customer data and felt your heart sink? * What did you know when, and how is that maintained as time moved on? * On what basis did you make the decisions you made at that time? * Can you tell the
