Jamming #ISO #20022 into #Open #Banking #API makes them #REST-ish, not #RESTful

This case is a perfect example where a business value requires an adequate technical instrument, but when the instrument is driven by technology convenience, nobody cares about the business values. We are talking about a well-known problem that UK Open Banking (OB) and EU PSD2 face with financial transactions. It seems that the technology considerations …

A Client-centric priority versus Regulation priority

Published on December 6, 2018 More than a half-year has passed since GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation) moved into force. Have you heard about any laud GDPR cases where companies were fined? I’ve heard about only one – Ms. Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information GDPR Commissioner, stated that she might investigate Facebook for exposing people’s …

“In the Mind of Business Architect” : From Disruption to Destruction: GDPR , PSD2 and API

Published on April 16, 2017 Opening business eyes on some aspects of Technology Revolution IT was and is isolated… by Business. This is, probably, the reason for intent in IT Departments to disrupt everything around – to be noticed, at least. This includes a wave of innovations in technology as well. I have this guess …

Open Banking API Process ‘to be’

Published on January 1, 2018 Happy New 2018 Year to All! My best wishes to you in have a luck of safing your bank accounts An Open Banking initiative is a UK specific adoption of the EU PSD2 Regulation. The UK enthusiasts wanted to be “more saint than the Pope of Rome” and added almost …

GDPR and Microservice Security – compliance in question

Published on April 5, 2018 A Problem An emerging EU regulation – GDPR – defines a requirement that asks developers to create business and technology solutions with default data privacy protection by design. This requirement conquers the worlds of DevOps and API/Microservice Economy first of all. The result of this is that traditional perimeter protection …

#GDPR Check-points: #API #Economy, #RAML and #Open #Source

Published on April 22, 2018 Context While IT enjoys Digital Revolution, the European business and all related businesses around the world are counting the last 30 days before the EU GDPR gets in the force. Though IT has been made the major enabler of compliance with this regulation, only a few companies have realised that …