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May 16, 2012 |  |
 Innotribe@Belfast will close with the third leg of the Innotribe Startup Challenge, showcasing the last semi-finalists that will compete for a finalist slot at Sibos
Innotribe, SWIFT’s initiative for enabling collaborative innovation in financial services, is launching its first standalone event to inspire creative evolution in the banking sector in Belfast on 13th & 14th June. Innotribe@Belfast offers a unique conference format to members of the banking community in which innovative idea generation is stimulated through a variety of interactive and creative workshops.
The conference will offer participants the opportunity to discuss alternative banking and the challenges of alternative currencies, consider the increasing role of telecommunications companies as they partner with financial services firms, as well as exploring the innovation processes within tier 1 banks and how internal innovation impacts corporate culture. |
 Ulster Bank survey shows top apps include social networking, news, maps travel, gaming and banking
One in three of us in Northern Ireland couldn't live without our favourite app, according to a survey by Ulster Bank.
Northern Ireland smart phone users have an average of 24 apps with one in three having a banking app. Other top apps include news, maps, travel and gaming apps, which six in 10 own, while over half have weather, music, photo and video apps and one in three claim they could not live without social networking apps. |
 Ulster Bank launches first banking app in Northern Ireland available to users of all three leading smart phones
In a banking first, Ulster Bank has launched the only banking app in Northern Ireland available to users of all three smart phone platforms, the iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Available to download from the respective App Store, this latest app allows users to bill pay, check their balance and transfer money while on the go.
Designed to make mobile banking more convenient for Ulster Bank’s personal banking customers, Ulster Bank already has over 100,000 active mobile users across the island of Ireland. |
Bank of Ireland announces the arrival of its first mobile banking app which is available to download from today for iPhone users from the app store. The new ‘app’ is destined to deliver high speed, secure bank account access, to the 500,000 personal customers currently registered for online banking.
The Bank of Ireland app will provide the most popular online services:
· View balances & Review transaction history
This includes Current, Demand Deposit, Term Loan and Credit Card accounts and the facility to make transfers between accounts. |
 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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