Practical, hard-won writing on tech strategy, AI, due diligence, and scaling engineering teams — from 27 years in the CTO chair. No theory, no fluff.
An in-depth engineering guide to trading systems: four-layer architecture, honest backtesting, pessimistic paper trading, micro-live capital gates and the infrastructure that takes money seriously.
A deep dive into integrating AI and ML into an existing platform safely: gateway architecture, data minimisation, permission-aware retrieval, vendor…
The world's most mature fintech market expects the most of your systems: safeguarding-grade ledgers, outcome evidence for Consumer Duty, and…
The US fintech rulebook fragments fifty ways. The regulatory map, the three payment rails, and why the bank-partnership model is…
New Zealand is its own jurisdiction: FMA licensing, three-agency AML/CFT supervision, the CCCFA and the Customer and Product Data framework,…
The Australian fintech regulatory map — ASIC, AUSTRAC, CDR, NPP and PayTo — translated into the technical requirements your platform…
Why fintech needs a specialist CTO, the four-market regulatory picture, and the architecture principles that let one platform operate across…
A 30/60/90-day standard for fractional CTO engagements: independent assessment, decisions made, and a working operating rhythm — and how to…
Replace gut feel with evidence: twenty assessment questions across track record, availability, technical judgement and commercial terms — with the…
The full process for Australian businesses: when fractional is the right call, where to find one, what to check, what…
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