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Time for a check-up When there are more UK banking outages than days in the year, it’s not a good sign of the health of the British financial industry. 2018 saw 375 incidents reported over a nine month period – and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling for a check-up.  Consumers are more reliant than ever on technology for banking services. Where once access to online banking was an exciting and convenient development of the digital age, it is now viewed as a given. Yet for millions of account holders in 2018, it wasn’t.   

When Neil Armstrong said those famous words in 1969, his boots forever imprinting the surface of the moon, it in many ways erased all that had come before and much of what was to come. The failures of those many other missions that both preceded and followed Apollo 11 are nothing in historical memory compared with that single moment.

Some people say it all started with Jeff Bezos’ famous mandate to his employees:  “All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. There will be no other form of inter-process communication allowed…” He dramatically finished it with:  “Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired. Thank you; have a nice day!”

Face to face with ITRS engineering On June 6th, the product and engineering teams at ITRS Group will open the office doors to all London based Geneos users. The face to face meetup will offer high-touch engagement between the people who use ITRS products every day, and the people who build and maintain them.

In a frenzied example of ‘just in-case’ planning, anxious shoppers across Briton have been turning to stockpiling over the last few months as the answer to Brexit uncertainty. Now with no deal all but off the table, much of this ‘worst case scenario’ food could go to waste.

Information technology and software business expert Iveta Cabajova has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of ITRS Group (ITRS) to help support the growth of the company. ITRS has broadened its product suite through in-house development and acquisition of companies to support the needs of always-on enterprise clients worldwide. 

ITRS Group presents ‘The Amazonian Netprobes’, the first of the three part ITRS Cloud Series Blog. In this series our ITRS experts share how we can help you manage and monitor your cloud environment(s) and your environment on premises.

The starting point In February 2018, a 23-year-old trader posted a message on Reddit to WallStreetBets, a forum dedicated to trading. The message was just four words: ‘Should I kill myself?’ The trader, username Lilkanna, did not kill himself and remains active on the site. But he learned a painful lesson about putting all of his eggs in one basket: the prompt for his despair was losing $4m going all-in on an inverse volatility contract, XIV.