“More than any other industry, banks still contain a mix of archaic legacy systems, new cloud platforms, and yet are under pressure to accelerate their software development to combat the threat of their ‘digital-first’ competitors,” opined Dave Anderson, a marketing bod from API-making biz Dynatrace, in a canned quote.
Talk about making yourself look incompetent in the technical press....
Banking is archaic (we're shit and we know we are), but its still 3 or 4 decades ahead of the insurance industry (syndicate/Lloyds level, not retail), and about 5 decades ahead of the legal industry. I know, I've worked in all three, and for leading edge employers at that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
