The pressure on the investment bank

An investment bank has to have the most up-to-date information at any time, or the business is at risk. To do this the IT department has to deal weigh inherent volatility in the markets that can cause the volume of transactions going through the back office to suddenly explode and with every day calculations that are so computationally large there is not enough resource to perform them throughout the day. The options are either to over provisioning resources or accept that the team are not working with the latest information. Neither is acceptable