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Use Forrester’s insights to calm depositors and prevent a bank run - Europeans are trusting their banks a lot more than Americans: ‘Among US online consumers, 40% agreed with the statement, “Recent problems with banks have made me more concerned that my bank will not be there for me when I need it.” French online consumers had similar sentiments: 38% of them agreed. But only 28% of UK online consumers felt the same.’ And: ‘Nearly 40% of each of the three groups we surveyed agreed with the statement that “Larger banks are inherently safer than smaller/regional banks.'

The Definition Of “More From Less” In B2B Content Strategy And Operations - The best tip here to focus a lot on recycling what you have already. I agree: there’s always a lot of assets and not near enough promotion and reuse/remixing of them. // “When asked about their perception of the content that they receive from vendors who market to them, 61% of business buyers say that vendors give them too much content, and 63% say that what they get is more focused on style than substance. And here’s the kicker: 69% — close to three-quarters — say that if the content from vendors that they currently do business with isn’t valuable or helpful, they’re not likely to expand contracts. On top of this, businesses know that they’re pumping out content that doesn’t meet the mark: 61% say that one-quarter to three-quarters of their content goes to waste — that it isn’t used as intended."

What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)

What Computers Do At BanksHere’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff! And, if you’re into that, I also liked this white paper that goes over the general deal with modernizing banking apps, services, etc.
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CD Foundation Releases Fourth State of Continuous Delivery Report, 2023 - In these surveys (based on big SlashData surveys), Since 2020, the reporting on the deployment frequency breakout has held steady: ~35% more than a month, ~32% a week to a month, ~22% hourly to weekly, ~10% multiple times a day. These are a lot different than what analysts (like Forrester) typically track, as well as the old State of Agile surveys (digital.ai seems to have stopped tracking deployment frequency after, like, 13 years. Too bad!)