PPB: Concepts and Practice · Part C: Banking Technology

Chapter 19: Bank computerisation and CBS

How banks moved from ledgers to one central system, how that system runs, and how it is kept safe and running.

Buyers of the e-book, or of the print copy, which includes it, read the whole chapter. Everyone can read the free sample, pages 1 to 24 of the e-book.

In this chapter

• 19.1From ledgers to core bankingp. 255
• 19.2How a core banking system worksp. 256
• 19.3Hardware, software, networks and the cloudp. 257
• 19.4Data centre, disaster recovery and resiliencep. 258
• 19.5Who governs IT riskp. 259
• Exam traps and quick checksp. 260
• Practice: 16 questions in three roundsp. 261
• Answers, with every wrong option explainedp. 263
• Make it stickp. 265
• Chapter 19 on one pagep. 266

Corrections and updates

None for this chapter so far. Every correction to the book, and any rule that changes after its date, is listed on the errata page.