The Top Class Wednesday Update is ready for you now
So here we are, siblings. Happy New Year to all; there didn’t seem much point in doing an Update last week as most of you were still off and there’s only so much you can read about the lack of Hogmanay parties before you end up even more depressed than you were before. (Insert Deity […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE CAN BOOGIE
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I know exactly nothing about foopball; it’s the wrong shaped ball for this particular egg-chaser. Being Scottish, this is normally not an issue when major tournaments roll around, but this year is different. First, we seem inexplicably to have made it through to whatever this stage of the […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS NOTHING IF NOT PREDICTABLE
Some people just don’t want to go messing about with irony. After the excitement of James Hay’s announcement that it plans to assimilate Nucleus, I popped onto the Twitter and hilariously asked if anyone had any thoughts on what I might cover this week. Well, I got lots of nice suggestions and now I feel […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE WINS EVERYTHING BY A LOT
After a monumentally rubbish eight months, the occasional shaft of sunlight pierces the clouds – a U-turn on whether it’s OK to let kids go hungry, the potential for a vaccine that works, and the really big one…genuine, laugh-out-loud comedy from the American politico-judicial process. If it wasn’t for the import taxes I’d be buying […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE RESUMES NORMAL SERVICE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT
Hello again, it’s me back from a month away, and I’m disturbed to see that you all kept reading and engaging with the Top Class Wednesday Update at normal levels while I was away. How am I meant to promote deep feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness in my team if you’re all unfaithful like this? […]
OMG, OMW! WHEN REPLATFORMING ATTACKS.
One of the running sores of the platform industry, for a long time, has been replatforming. This is a typically abstruse[1] term coined by the industry for moving the underlying assets on a platform from one technology firm to another. Sound simple? Well, itâ’s not. I’ve been fond of saying for a while that ‘there […]
OMG, OMW! WHEN REPLATFORMING ATTACKS.
One of the running sores of the platform industry, for a long time, has been replatforming. This is a typically abstruse[1] term coined by the industry for moving the underlying assets on a platform from one technology firm to another. Sound simple? Well, itâ’s not. I’ve been fond of saying for a while that ‘there […]
Aviva and FNZ up a tree, R-E-PLAT-FORM-I-N-G
Just a quick few thoughts on the news from Aviva today that it plans to migrate its platform from Bravura to FNZ. For those not intimately involved, Bravura and FNZ, along with GBST (disclosure: GBST is a client of ours) are the three big beasts of outsourced platform technology in the advised space. IFDS is […]
