{"id":86,"date":"2026-09-16T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/pairing-with-a-model-not-a-person\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:08:32","slug":"the-programmers-keeping-old-banking-systems-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/the-programmers-keeping-old-banking-systems-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Programmers Keeping Old Banking Systems Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behind many of today\u2019s banking apps sit systems written decades ago, and a small group of specialists is responsible for keeping them running.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banks said replacing the older systems is slow and risky, so they are hiring engineers who can read the old code and training younger staff to take over. Many of the specialists are close to retirement.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts said the work is rarely noticed until something fails. They argue for steady investment in modernisation rather than waiting for a crisis.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small group of specialists maintain code written decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,104],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-banking","tag-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.themiverse.com\/synvix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}