{"id":235,"date":"2026-02-28T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:14:41","slug":"a-massive-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"A Massive Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A more complex transaction, not only data migration, but also the delivery of a full payment API system, enabling partner bank capability with FirstRand. This involved full joint integration testing of corporate payment systems, adding a fair amount of complexity. The teams on both sides rose to the occasion and again achieved another successful delivery, and we wish all the team members who transitioned our best wishes for the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HSBC has officially exited South Africa, transferring its operations to FirstRand after a three-decade presence. The transfer includes the clients, assets, and liabilities of HSBC&#8217;s South African branch, which will continue to provide banking services to clients through FirstRand&#8217;s corporate and investment franchise, Rand Merchant Bank (RMB). The exit is part of HSBC&#8217;s strategic decision to focus on Asia and the Middle East, and it follows similar exits by other European banks from the region. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A more complex transaction, not only data migration, but also the delivery of a full payment API system, enabling partner bank capability with FirstRand. This involved full joint integration testing of corporate payment systems, adding a fair amount of complexity. The teams on both sides rose to the occasion and again achieved another successful delivery, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/?p=235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Massive Collaboration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37,41,35,36,10,38,5],"tags":[45,7,43,30,42,25],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-testing","category-business-review","category-divestment","category-it-delivery","category-management","category-payments","category-project-management","category-testing","tag-api-payments","tag-banking-transformation","tag-data-migration","tag-hsbc","tag-project-management","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peachprogramming.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}