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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

James leads this business bringing advanced generative AI and conversational intelligence to Financial Advice

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Fifth Logic specialise in innovative business and IT consulting to the finance industry. Our expertise is broad with key focus areas being regulation, digital transformation, programme management, architecture, application development, low cost development and business analysis. We are engaged in major transformation initiatives at several global financial organisations and regulators as well as significant platform builds.

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Broad range of IT ownership across programmes, transformation, pmo, vendors, regulatory, operations and team.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

James has held a diverse set of roles at Macquarie Bank. Many of the roles have been held concurrently and he is open to taking on new roles and responsibilities wherever he can add value to the organisation. Some key roles at Macquarie so far include:Foreign Exchange Technology Lead - Front to back technology including product ownership of 5-6 eCommerce trading channels, risk platforms, order management platforms and algorithmic trading platforms.eCommence Sales - Concept to operationalisation of joint ventures with internal and external partners organisations. Normally involves creating a product/platform and commercialising it.OTC Reform - Fronted Macquarie Bank's technical response to the global regulations issued post 2008. This included Dodd Frank, ASIC, EMIR, MAS and HK regulations. Significant business and technical change across the entire bank including re-working many trading and back office processes. User Centric Design in FICC - Investment Banks are traditionally behind the curve in usability. I conceived, planned, petitioned and convinced many diverse global stakeholders to invest seven figure sums in user centric design of front office systems.Chinese Government - Joint venture between Macquarie and the Chinese government to trade Foreign Exchange. The first international bank without a Chinese Branch to trade with the Chinese Government organisation CFETSHead of FICC Pricing Trading and Risk Systems - Technical platform ownership of core trading platforms across Energy, Metals, Agriculture, Credit, Interest Rate and Foreign Exchange products.

Chichester, West Sussex, Gb

FTT Global (www.fttglobal.com) - Co-Founder and DirectorDesigned and operated a 24x7 foreign exchange brokerage and international payment providerInnovative user centric design simplifying complex trading flows into a simple user interfaceFull pricing models covering spot, crosses, pre-spot, forward curves, interpolation and spreads, automated pricing and 24 hour auto hedging of all FX positionsOperational business designWhite labelling of technologyPartnership development with a major broker dealer white labelling the technologyDevelopment of a property portal integrating international payments - patent issuedDay to day client sales and managementOwned and drove online marketing for the firm. Significant exposure to google analytics, PPC, SEO and concept of several innovations to enhance natural search rankingsManaged day to day pricing, trading risk and PnL. Setting all spreads and managing positionsDesigned back office processes and international settlements.Hired and built teamSourced and negotiated with venture capital firms interested in taking a stake in the firm

New York, Ny, Us

Implemented several major technology initiatives for BarCap including owning and running their algorithmic trading system PowerFill. Also worked on several options trading initiatives.BARX was the leading Digital Trading Platform with 6000 unique logins per day trading many billions of pounds per day,

Amsterdam, Nl

Led several major technology intiatives for ABN Amro including implementations of global e-commerce trading systems, pricing systems and algorithmic trading platforms.

Boston, Ma, Us

James led several programs of work in equity trading, fixed income and FX. Clients included Deutsche Bank, RBS and Banco Santander. Led multi-disciplined project teams including user centric design, brand designers, visual designers and technologists.

James joined as an Experienced Consultant and was quickly promoted to Manager. He worked on a complex life insurance programme within AMP.