In other news, we cover Wolters Kluwer FRR’s Aussie expansion, Substantive Research’s new dashboard, and KX’s new hires.
New Staff Tasked to Deliver a Digital Transformation
Officials at the Bank of Ireland recently announced that they have begun recruiting to fill 130 technology positions whose mission will be to deliver on an “ambitious digital agenda.”
Part of that digital agenda is likely to include support for the bank’s securities trading activities even though the new roles have not been assigned to particular divisions.
“We do have a trading floor, but we haven’t split out the new tech roles by division,” a bank spokesperson tells FTF News.
The bank’s website spotlights its Treasury business, consisting of foreign exchange (FX), money markets, bonds, and derivatives. In fact, Treasury “is responsible for the execution of the wholesale funding of Bank of Ireland’s balance sheet,” according to the bank. The Global Customer Group “provides structured products, FX and interest rate product and payment solutions to the bank’s extensive corporate and institutional customer base in Ireland, the U.K. and the U.S.”
The new technology roles cover a wide gamut including technical architects, software developers, engineers, specialized project managers, scrum masters, and data analysts.
New staff members will join the bank’s “cutting-edge in-house tech teams, strongly supporting the enhancement of digital services and offerings for all customers,” officials add. The bank “strongly encourages female talent to apply for these specialist roles, with 47 percent of all previously advertised IT roles being filled by female candidates.”
Wolters Kluwer FRR Unit Hires for Aussie Expansion
Donna-Maree Vinci
Wolters Kluwer’s finance, risk, and regulatory reporting (FRR) business has appointed Donna-Maree Vinci as a strategic advisor for Australia.
Wolters Kluwer FRR says in a statement that it “counts major Australian financial institutions, as well as international banking groups active in the country, among its clients.”
Vinci’s 30-year financial experience, WK FRR says, “includes senior positions at Tier One global and Australian banks. For 12 years she was CIO [chief information officer] and global head of technology risk management for Citigroup and between 2015 and the end of 2019 was chief operations, digital and information officer for The Bank of Queensland. Other senior experience includes being chief information and operations officer for Westpac Institutional Bank,” according to Wolters Kluwer.
Wolters Kluwer FRR is part of Wolters Kluwer’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) division, the statement points out, noting that it “supports regulated financial institutions in meeting their obligations to external regulators and their own board of directors.”
The parent company, headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, also notes that it has customers in “over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 19,000 people worldwide.”
Substantive Research Launches Dashboard of Research Offerings
Substantive Research, a research and analytics provider for the buy side, reports the launch of a new dashboard that offers asset managers “detailed insights on their research providers’ pricing, sector coverage and investment in analyst teams.”
The dashboard was developed over the last 14 months, company officials say in a statement.
The dashboard, which began as a “simple overview of research providers and benchmark valuations of research spend and has developed into a budget optimization and research discovery tool,” the vendor adds. “Additional functionality has been added in close collaboration with asset managers, to include analyst mapping, peer group comparisons, budgeting, rate card benchmarking and market trend reports.”
Substantive Research also notes that it “monitors and curates investment research and provides data-driven analytics on research spend to buy-side professionals who manage assets from $500 million to $3 trillion and represent a combined AUM of more than $10 trillion.”
KX Adds Four to Its FX Sales Group
Streaming analytics vendor KX is growing its financial services group with four recent sales hires who will focus on the company’s solutions for the foreign exchange (FX) business.
Karl Dundon
The new hires are: Sharon Yuen and Chetan (CJ) Mhatre who have recently joined in Singapore where they also will cover KX platform sales, including multi-asset surveillance and algo trading solutions; Karl Dundon who will be based in New York and have responsibility for FX sales across North America; and Finn Jakobsen, who will be based in Copenhagen, heading FX sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Jakobsen joins after most recently running his own consulting business, according to a prepared statement from KX. The new hires “bring insights and expertise across banking, brokerage, exchanges, platform operators and asset management firms that will prove invaluable,” Rich Kiel, KX’s head of FX solutions, says in the statement.
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