<script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/swamykocherlakota" data-format="hover"  data-text="Dr. Swamy Kocherlakota" data-related="false"></script><script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlewis13" data-format="hover"  data-text="David Lewis" data-related="false"></script><script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gardnermichael" data-format="hover"  data-text="Michael Gardner" data-related="false"></script><script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/swamykocherlakota" data-format="hover"  data-text="Dr. Swamy Kocherlakota" data-related="false"></script><script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlewis13" data-format="hover"  data-text="David Lewis" data-related="false"></script><script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gardnermichael" data-format="hover"  data-text="Michael Gardner" data-related="false"></script><script 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Foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" 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daily<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/bny-mellon-nexen-drives-digital-transformation-with-cloud-foundry\/#Innovation_and_APIs_to_the_fore\" >Innovation and APIs to the fore<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/bny-mellon-nexen-drives-digital-transformation-with-cloud-foundry\/#Heavily_invested_in_Cloud_Foundry_and_OSS\" >Heavily invested in Cloud Foundry and OSS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/bny-mellon-nexen-drives-digital-transformation-with-cloud-foundry\/#Lessons_learned\" >Lessons learned<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/bny-mellon-nexen-drives-digital-transformation-with-cloud-foundry\/#Next_steps\" >Next steps<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/bny-mellon-nexen-drives-digital-transformation-with-cloud-foundry\/#Want_details_Watch_the_videos\" >Want details? Watch the videos!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/bny-mellon-nexen-drives-digital-transformation-with-cloud-foundry\/#Further_reading\" >Further reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Background\"><\/span>Background<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>BNY Mellon dates its roots to 1784 and is the oldest banking corporation in the United States. Today, it generates annual revenues of more than $15 billion and has $27 trillion\u2014equivalent to one-fifth of the global economy\u2014under management. More than 13,000 people work within its global enterprise IT staff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34094\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Swamy-Kocherlakota.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Swamy-Kocherlakota-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-34094\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Swamy Kocherlakota<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>BNY Mellon has integrated Cloud Foundry into its IT infrastructure. As it seeks to digitize and transform its way of developing software and conducting business, it has created an open-source, cloud-based platform called NEXEN.<\/p>\n<p>Its roots run deep. \u201cWe created a Java-based PaaS in 2001,\u201d according to <!-- Linkedin Profile Badge: http:\/\/3doordigital.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/linkedin-profile-badge\/ -->\r\n<script type=\"IN\/MemberProfile\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/swamykocherlakota\" data-format=\"hover\"  data-text=\"Dr. Swamy Kocherlakota\" data-related=\"false\"><\/script>, former Managing Director and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering at BNY Mellon. \u201cWe then converted to open source in 2012, have built out an open architecture, and are now building DevOps capability into our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BNY Mellon joined the Cloud Foundry foundation as a Gold member on May 1, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5000_VMs_and_thousands_of_users_daily\"><\/span>5,000 VMs and thousands of users daily<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_34097\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/David-Lewis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/David-Lewis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-34097\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>David Lewis<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, the business case for giving developers a machine in the cloud \u201cis not good enough,\u201d according to Swami. <!-- Linkedin Profile Badge: http:\/\/3doordigital.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/linkedin-profile-badge\/ -->\r\n<script type=\"IN\/MemberProfile\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davidlewis13\" data-format=\"hover\"  data-text=\"David Lewis\" data-related=\"false\"><\/script>, Managing Director, Enterprise Delivery Services and Architecture at BNY Mellon, also points out that the company\u2019s digitization strategy \u201cis transforming the whole organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David also notes that whereas in the past the company\u2019s financial services drove the vision of the company, today it\u2019s consumer businesses who are driving the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the team at BNY Mellon have discovered many things about how it can and can\u2019t run an infrastructure. Today, it has more than 5,000 VMs online, with a small team of 10 to 15 people running it. BNY Mellon has approximately 100 applications running in its environment, with 10,000-15,000 users per day and millions of transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Within this context, BNY Mellon\u2019s NEXEN marks the biggest technological transformation in its history. NEXEN is designed to empower company clients to change the way they operate to be more flexible, efficient and fast. The platform also includes two applications\u2014Digital Pulse and Digital Workplace\u2014designed to provide data-driven insights to empower clients to make evidence-based decisions faster.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cloud-foundry-use-case-bny-mellon-nexen-gateway.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cloud-foundry-use-case-bny-mellon-nexen-gateway.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34105\" \/><\/a><small>The NEXEN UI (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170130060048\/http:\/\/ivalley.co\/pdf\/3.1_Shashta_945-1_15_Innovation_Strategy_Gardner_Ivalley_June_2016.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">image credit<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Swamy says that agile programming \u201chas been here for some time. Yet, development methodologies are (sometimes) still sitting in waterfall environments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;With the cloud and IaaS, you can give developers an agile approach and the underlying infrastructure also built in an agile manner. This gives better value to the businesses we serve.\u201d \u2014Swamy Kocherlakota, BNY Mellon<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OpenStack is the other foundational technology in this use case; Swamy describes \u201cinfrastructure on OpenStack along with Cloud Foundry is a match made in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Innovation_and_APIs_to_the_fore\"><\/span>Innovation and APIs to the fore<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_34100\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Michael-Gardner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Michael-Gardner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-34100\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Michael Gardner<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<!-- Linkedin Profile Badge: http:\/\/3doordigital.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/linkedin-profile-badge\/ -->\r\n<script type=\"IN\/MemberProfile\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gardnermichael\" data-format=\"hover\"  data-text=\"Michael Gardner\" data-related=\"false\"><\/script> is Managing Director and Head of the BNY Mellon Innovation Center at Silicon Valley. In this role, he is building a team of software architects and engineers, and relationships with universities, startups, and the venture investment community.<\/p>\n<p>He notes that NEXEN \u201cis a collection of software and projects. It gives us an API store, analytics to assess what is happening, how it is going, and what we can do to accelerate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cNEXEN is not just for geeks to deliver something, it\u2019s about how business accepts and adopts it. If you are not driving the people part of it, you are not going to accomplish the digital transformation.\u201d \u2014Michael Gardner, BNY Mellon<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>APIs are critical to this ecosystem, and \u201cwe want to make sure there is a modern REST API available to the consumers,\u201d Michael adds. The REST API is also intrinsic to developer productivity, allowing them to move as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BNY-Mellon-Nexen-Digital-Ecosystem.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BNY-Mellon-Nexen-Digital-Ecosystem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34351\" \/><\/a><small>The role of APIs in NEXEN&#8217;s digital ecosystem (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170130060048\/http:\/\/ivalley.co\/pdf\/3.1_Shashta_945-1_15_Innovation_Strategy_Gardner_Ivalley_June_2016.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">image credit<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, API governance is very important and the BNY Mellon team ensures that the APIs they publish are consistent. \u201cTo a new developer who will be using API from BNY Mellon, we have to make sure that this API is rational, easy\u00a0to\u00a0consume, has documentation and a roadmap, that the data provided by the API is consistent with internal standards,\u201d according to Michael.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking sure that the service team responsible for the API has a support model in place and that the monetization of the API is considered when it comes to promotion from the lab environment to the production environment\u201d is also critical, he says. \u201cFinally, we want to make sure that the API is ready and the team behind it is ready for globalization of the API.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Heavily_invested_in_Cloud_Foundry_and_OSS\"><\/span>Heavily invested in Cloud Foundry and OSS<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_34103\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/John-Wetherill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/John-Wetherill-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-34103\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>John Wetherill<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/johnwetherill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Wetherill<\/a>, Principal Architect at BNY Mellon, recently joined the 230-year-old bank and provided an overview of its work with Cloud Foundry at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/tag\/cf-beat\/\">CF Beat<\/a> meetup.<\/p>\n<p>Noting there are around 13,000 people on this organization\u2019s IT staff, he said \u201cwe have the same problems that all large banks and financial institutions are facing today. We have been actively building solutions for these (problems) in the last 16 years.\u201d He lists instances of what they have built, including \u201cJava, microservices\u2014before microservices was even a thing\u2014and cloud. We\u2019re heavily invested in cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John noted that the platform has been in development \u201cfor years to help us to settle our challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CF-Beat-BNY-Mellon-NEXEN-Cloud-Foundry-John-Wetherill-Challenges.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12728\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CF-Beat-BNY-Mellon-NEXEN-Cloud-Foundry-John-Wetherill-Challenges.jpg\" alt=\"CF Beat BNY Mellon NEXEN Cloud Foundry John Wetherill Challenges\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12728\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cNEXEN provides all the features that we need, all the capabilities we need to be able to provide a platform for our developers to provision the apps to our cloud, our internal cloud, in a safe and secure way.\u201d \u2014John Wetherill, BNY Mellon<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Specifically, he pointed out how NEXEN allows the bank to greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to provision things to the cloud from weeks, months even down to hours or a day. As a counter-example, he said that in talking to executives at other financial companies and banks, \u201cThe common thing I hear is that it takes weeks, months even to get the resources that they need. The figures that are going on are something like 120 service desk tickets need to be executed in order to get a fully equipped VM online and all the parts that are needed (with it). That could take six months and that really interrupts productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CF-Beat-BNY-Mellon-NEXEN-Cloud-Foundry-John-Wetherill-Before-After.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12792\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CF-Beat-BNY-Mellon-NEXEN-Cloud-Foundry-John-Wetherill-Before-After.png\" alt=\"CF Beat BNY Mellon NEXEN Cloud Foundry John Wetherill Before After\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12792\" \/><\/a><small>The results achieved with Cloud Foundry<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The use of open-source software such as Cloud Foundry almost goes without saying, but John did say \u201cwe\u2019re very invested in open source. There are so many reasons why (and) some of them are listed here. We\u2019ve got a large palette of open-source technologies that are part of our platform today. You\u2019ll notice Cloud Foundry is in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, he said \u201copen source is very key to our strategy and Cloud Foundry is, too. We\u2019re incorporating Cloud Foundry into our entire provisioning process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we\u2019re very active in Cloud Foundry itself and likely to be more so. It allows us to build up this system without vendor lock-in. It\u2019s really nice to have the abstraction layer above the infrastructure which Cloud Foundry provides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Thus) we\u2019re not locked into VMware. We\u2019re not locked into any other provider. We can use OpenStack and all the things Cloud Foundry provides\u2014the monitoring, security, scaling, and all that. At BNY Mellon, we are taking advantage of all the things Cloud Foundry provides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lessons_learned\"><\/span>Lessons learned<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In the course of the years, BNY Mellon has learned what works and what does not work when digitazing the organization.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of people, such best practicies should be implemented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approach as a joint CTS \/ business change program with a strong sponsorship<\/li>\n<li>Invest in &#8220;the best training and mentorship you can find&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Change the culture by addressing the breadth of change required at all levels of the organization<\/li>\n<li>Use Agile as a method to promote empowered, self-organizing teams focused on services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Technological aspect should be treated as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Architecture needs to be a first-class citizen<\/li>\n<li>Agile is about teams of teams<\/li>\n<li>Use end-to-end capabilities \/ services as an organizing paradigm<\/li>\n<li>Promote reusable components<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Reorganizing the process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start small and grow<\/li>\n<li>Work closely with vendors to support Lean-Agile<\/li>\n<li>Agile is not one thing. Connect the strategic dots<\/li>\n<li>Change governance \/ control processes to support Agile<\/li>\n<li>Adopt a bimodal approach approach (not everything is suitable for Agile)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Next_steps\"><\/span>Next steps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>As NEXEN evolves and progresses, John said \u201cwe\u2019re looking at a lot of things. (For example), we\u2019re actively working at incorporating some of the modern practices into our cloud development, our cloud provisioning, and deployment. We have DevOps and microservices. We\u2019re looking heavily at containers. We\u2019re using containerization. We\u2019re incorporating Docker. Hybrid cloud is very important for us for its ability to have apps spanning multiple clouds. All these things are important key points in our strategy to make sure we can deliver rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Want_details_Watch_the_videos\"><\/span>Want details? Watch the videos!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"video-details-td\">\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 45%; padding-left: 15px; font-size: 14px;\">\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">What are the problems facing financial institutions today? (<a href=\"#wistia_lrjpoktkg2?time=64\">1&#8217;04&#8221;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">How does NEXEN provide a solution to the problem? (<a href=\"#wistia_lrjpoktkg2?time=168\">2&#8217;48&#8221;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">How does BNY Mellon continue to improve NEXEN? (<a href=\"#wistia_lrjpoktkg2?time=275\">4&#8217;35&#8221;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">Why is open-source software important to BNY Mellon? (<a href=\"#wistia_lrjpoktkg2?time=328\">5&#8217;28&#8221;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">How does Cloud Foundry improve NEXEN? (<a href=\"#wistia_lrjpoktkg2?time=365\">6&#8217;05&#8221;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 6px;\">What things can Cloud Foundry improve on? (<a href=\"#wistia_lrjpoktkg2?time=422\">7&#8217;02&#8221;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p><script charset=\"ISO-8859-1\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_lrjpoktkg2\" style=\"height:320px;width:440px\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><small>Here is a discussion of the project from Cloud Foundry Summit 2014:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ1j6qezthY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Further_reading\"><\/span>Further reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/cloud-foundry-meets-fintech-a-fireside-chat-with-bny-mellons-peter-leong\/\">Cloud Foundry Meets FinTech\u2014A Fireside Chat with BNY Mellon\u2019s Peter Leong<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<p><center><small>The post is written by Roger Strukhoff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/carlo\/\">Carlo Gutierrez<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/alex\/\">Alex Khizhniak<\/a>.<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background<\/p>\n<p>BNY Mellon dates its roots to 1784 and is the oldest banking corporation in the United States. Today, it generates annual revenues of more than $15 billion and has $27 trillion\u2014equivalent to one-fifth of the global economy\u2014under management. 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