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February 10, 2012

Over 100 local companies today discovered how the fast growing economies of the Far East represent an excellent opportunity for Northern Ireland companies to increase sales and boost their prosperity at an Ulster Bank-backed event held in Belfast.

 

The 'Doing Business in Asia' event, held in Riddell Hall, featured a range of experts from Ulster Bank's global parent company, RBS, Invest NI and UKTI as well as local companies who are already trading successfully in the Asian market.

 

Dr Vicky Kell, Invest NI’s Trade Director, said: “Asia has long been recognised by Invest NI as an important marketplace for the very broad range of products and services provided by our companies.


September 07, 2010

Chief executives of US firms operating in Northern Ireland will ‘sell’ the province to other companies at an investment conference next month, the US economic envoy has said.


July 28, 2010

Both the economy and the jobs market have been seriously affected by the downturn and we have witnessed significant decline in sectors such as the Construction, Engineering & Retail Banking sectors. However organisations, both Public and Private, are adapting to these market conditions by exploring new methods of workforce management with temporary and contract recruitment becoming a viable option for resourcing in times of unpredictable market demand.

Although overall job numbers in the permanent job market has dropped this year there is still strong demand for the best candidates available in the marketplace.


November 24, 2009

Ulster Bank today launches a free mobile banking app for the iPhone on Apple's App Store. The app allows customers to check their account balances, recent transactions and manage their money on the move using iPhone.

The new app is a helpful initiative the bank has developed to bring customers closer to their finances on a 24/7 basis, and the bank says today’s launch re-enforces its commitment to offering its customers more advanced mobile banking facilities.


June 23, 2009
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, and Singularity, a leading provider of mission critical securities processing solutions to the Banking & Capital Markets Industry, today announced that Singularity has certified their interface to Omgeo Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM) for broker/dealers. In doing so, Singularity becomes the first Omgeo Partner to certify on Omgeo's newest offering for the broker/dealer community.

Omgeo CTM is a central matching platform for cross-border and non-U.

March 19, 2009

This is an interesting article in the FT regarding "near-shoring" of key support services within the Banking sector.

Among the examples given were Citigroup who over the past 18 months, have moved 250 operations jobs, mostly in trade settlement, to Belfast, where they joined more than 500 IT workers.

This bolsters the Citigroup workforce in Belfast to 750 - reinforcing the companies commitment and confidence in Northern Ireland.


February 02, 2009
SpeechStorm, the specialist provider of phone self-service solutions for contact centres, has today announced that, Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has been shortlisted in the 2009 Financial Sector Technology awards for the much coveted Best Use of IT in Retail Banking award category.

AIB has deployed a speech recognition solution for its high-value Relationship Managed customers. The solution, which is the single largest speech recognition deployment in Ireland, has greatly enhanced the customer experience by eliminating layers of IVR touchtone procedures, speeding up the process of reaching the intended person or function.

January 31, 2009

Collins Stewart, an independent UK-based investment banking group, has gone live with the full suite of Fidessa's advanced trading tools, which includes list management, wave and pairs trading and the BlueBox algorithmic trading engine.

BlueBox gives Collins Stewart, a Fidessa-hosted client since 2004, access to algorithms, including volume- and time-weighted average price, arrival price and percentage of volume.

Fidessa list management and wave trading tools enable Collins Stewart to trade mixed baskets while consolidating all trades and performance data in real time.

 
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