I've worked with the UK banks. From experience they're typically large outsourcing firms that contract their work out to the large consultancies that are more

I've worked with the UK banks. From experience they're typically large outsourcing firms that contract their work out to the large consultancies that are more interested in appearance and winning bun fights than delivering quality. I just left one of these orgs about a month ago where the program CTO of the bank (title inflation) wanted to hire me direct because they believe they need to have a core competency that isn't aligned with external political agendas, but largely the other senior managers just see having their own techs as a risk because they can't outsource the blame. That and directly answering questions or questioning process upsets a lot of people because they have fiedoms. Like someone asks you for all your IP address you have on cloud and what server they're associated with. They have no ability to handle the dynamic nature of these changing but their job is to write them down so you need to fall inline sorta deal...