Charles Adriaenssens's Blog Posts

Charles Adriaenssens is a Financial Services Industry Advisor EMEA at Splunk, working within its Strategic Advisory Group (SAG).

In this role, Charles supports customers to use the Splunk platform to address key industry use cases. He is an industry thought leader and regularly writes on a range of key topics, including Business Resilience, Customer Experience, Financial Crime / Fraud and changes in Regulation / Legislation.

Before joining Splunk, Charles spent more than 20 years as a Business Consultant working in the fields of analytics, insight generation and data strategy.

Reflections from SIBOS 2025: How will advances in technology (and especially AI) change the financial services industry over the next 5 years?
Industries
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Reflections from SIBOS 2025: How will advances in technology (and especially AI) change the financial services industry over the next 5 years?

Discover key insights from SIBOS 2025 on how AI, collaboration, and data will reshape financial services over the next 5 years—prepare for rapid change and exciting opportunities ahead.
Building Resilience with Energy Management in the Financial Services Industry
Industries
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Building Resilience with Energy Management in the Financial Services Industry

Environmental sustainability in the financial services industry has matured from a “nice-to-have”, feel-good ESG initiative to a numbers- and data-driven imperative. Read on to learn how an unified environmental sustainability solution which focuses on energy management metrics for buildings and data centers is an effective way to provide data visibility and advance key business outcomes.
Beyond Compliance: Building Operational Resilience in Financial Services
Industry Insights
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Beyond Compliance: Building Operational Resilience in Financial Services

Embrace change and agility as ways of life.
Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.
Industries
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Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.

Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype. Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important?
Exploring DORA: Why creating a path to resilience maturity is a critical success factor for financial services organisations
Industries
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Exploring DORA: Why creating a path to resilience maturity is a critical success factor for financial services organisations

In this blog, we share some insights about the requirements of DORA, as well as how Splunk can support financial services organisations on their resilience journey.
DORA will accelerate cloud migration in Financial Services
Security
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DORA will accelerate cloud migration in Financial Services

The much-anticipated Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is finally here. This Regulation, applicable across the 27 EU Member States, provides a set of guidelines via which financial services organisations will need to prove that they are operationally resilient, i.e, they are able to withstand any unforeseen shocks.