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London, United Kingdom

Caspian One Consultants, working within the Financial and Broadcast Media Technology industries provide outcome-driven capability acquisition solutions – with flexible approaches that combine deep market intelligence, established partner networks, nurtured relationships and proven methodologies.

London, United Kingdom

Customizable payment solutions that enable any user to manage their payments from end-to-end.

London, United Kingdom

Watchmist has enjoyed a long history of providing Consultancy Services to Financial Institutions - over 28 years. Engagements are typically Technology focused, but inevitably will include Business change as well.As Managing Director, I have held senior management positions within several Tier-1 Investment Banks and during this time, I have experienced the challenges of delivering large-scale, complex, matrix-managed projects, alongside the leading Global Technology Vendors (HCL, DXC\Luxoft, GFT, Wipro, TCS, Infosys, Hitachi etc) and their teams.It is this experience and insight into how to govern, run and deliver using large-scale vendors, as well as highly distributed teams, that now brings the Advisory Services to Watchmist to help Customers achieve the same success using our experience.

London, United Kingdom

Qlick2 are specialists in the Payment Service Directive and Regulatory Technical Standards (PSD2/RTS) helping customers to become PSD2 compliant.We support clients with the interpretation of the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) Standards for Account Information Service Providers (AISP) and Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISP) as well as the development of AISP and PISP Open APIs.Our Data Management expertise empower clients to make critical business decisions. We inspire world class analytical and visualisation software in complex architectural environments. Our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning expertise further supports our consulting services across industries.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the delivery of Technology to Global Transaction Banking.Directing distributed global teams building core-infrastructure for noSQL storage of real-time Transaction and Balance Data, as well as consumer applications across GTB business line.

London, United Kingdom

Working at Deutsche Bank AG, London in the GT-Application Services Team.Initiative is to assist with the ABF Business Platform Upgrade, originating in the Netherlands, which is currently undergoing a major transformation with new software technology and business changes. Exciting programme of work with good people and back at Deutsche Bank again!

London, United Kingdom

Praxisft is a financial technology consultancy offering a team of experienced business and technology analysts, project and programme managers to help you meet your business and IT objectives.The company's strategic partnership with Thomson Keene Associates, a leading IT resource provider to the financial markets, ensures that we have absolute control, not just of project design and management, but of each specialist appointed to the team. With the highest quality people hand-picked for Praxisft, our project delivery meets and exceeds expectations. Our in-depth management experience and access to professional resource, means we can put the right people on the job, control the costs, and guarantee the quality of service each and every time.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the modernisation of the Research authoring and distribution platform for Berenberg, which is Germany’s oldest and most prestigious privately owned Bank.The company migrated its Equity Research and Sales business from Hamburg to London and due to significant growth, needed to update the Content Software product it relies on for production of Research, as well tuning the business processes around the software, in order to retain its competitive advantage and internal efficiencies.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the Technology delivery for Autobahn Insight for Deutsche Bank which was the largest Programme within the organisation for 2010 (£100m budget). The aim of the initiative was to provide a centralised customer platform for pre-trade analytics, spanning all asset classes and eventually becoming the execution platform for all Deutsche Client interaction, replacing the existing Autobahn FI/FO/FX offerings and thereby simplifying the customer experience. Tools such as Commodities Pricer, Emerging Markets Pricing/live Charting, FX Rates Historic pricing etc. were all part of the technology offering.The programme consisted of many projects running simultaneously, with staff highly distributed on-shore and globally off-shore. The key aspect to the role involved balancing the individual efforts and deliveries from the component parts into consolidated deliveries and visible achievements and progress to meet the business demands.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the IT Management of the Global Sales Credits Reporting System (Aspen) for Deutsche Bank AG. This was the number one critical project for Sales globally in 2009 and was 8 months behind schedule at the point I was hired.Principle aim was to bring the Project under control and to achieve UAT and productionisation within agreed timescales. Control was quickly achieved, business requirements reviewed and confirmed and resources were assigned to specific targets and the system entered UAT within two months and production rollout within the timescales set.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for all Front-Office Technology for BU Research and Equity & Financial Markets Sales. Operational control of global team in three principle locations, London, Germany and New York. Team comprised of project managers, business analysts, data analysts, frontline support and development team. Reporting directly to the Head of BU Research, Sales and Head of IT SegmentResponsible for the provision of all technology for Equities, Private Clients & Financial Markets. Define yearly programme & IT strategy together with Business Managers (Sales, Research, Editorial & Compliance) and Head of Investment Banking IT.Budget and forecast control including risk analysis and reporting.Implementation of business change as well as technical.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the Client Relationship Management Programme within the organisation (630 users worldwide). Team comprised of project managers, business analysts, data analysts, frontline support and development team (Java/Sybase/Cognos).Creation and Management of the RFP process and vendor assessment and selection.Management of the product review process and creation of Steering Committee (reporting into Head of Equities business and Head of Sales).Proposals for Business & IT change and implementation where needed.Budget and forecast control including risk analysis and milestone reporting into Steering Committee.

London, United Kingdom

Provision of business applications support, and development to the Fixed Income Credit/EGB & Gilts desks.In-depth business knowledge and experience of Electronic Trading Applications such as BrokerTEC, MTS, Cantors/Espeed, Telematico and the composite trading environment – Marketview. Involved in all areas of pricing, trading, risk management, technical day-to-day and all issues relating from front to middle to back office. Development of sophisticated real-time and snapshot tools for monitoring trade flow across all ECN systems, and services across the Bank.

London, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Head of Global Markets and Head of Global TechnologyResponsible for the IT delivery of Risk Management Trade Level View of Credit/Market/Operational/Counterparty and Transfer Risk (circa £4 trillion).Delivery of near real time Risk Management statistics used by Senior Board Members, the Head of Global Markets and Business HeadsSole generation of Risk Adjusted Return on Capital (RaRoC) for all business areas. The system was analysed, prototyped, developed and implemented in a few months and accurately recorded and demonstrated the liabilities to the firm.