The Cassandra Log

Meridian Bank is running out of time. Behind its polished dashboards and confident board reports lies a system on the brink of regulatory collapse. When a FCA letter lands-longer, sharper, and impossible to ignore-the bank calls in David Carey, a technologist known for solving problems others can't see.
What he finds is worse than expected: failing reporting pipelines, a culture of avoidance, and a leadership team trapped between denial and fear. As regulatory pressure intensifies, David must navigate political minefields, rebuild trust, and confront the uncomfortable truth that the bank's greatest risk isn't its technology-it's the people responsible for it.

Readers will recognise the real‑world pressures, political evasions, and cultural failures that mirror today's digital transformation challenges-especially in banking, fintech, and compliance‑driven environments.

The Cassandra Log blends technology, regulation, and human behaviour into a corporate thriller that feels unsettlingly real. For readers who want the realism with the regulatory intensity of real banking technology failures, this story reveals what happens when leadership ignores the warnings that were always there.