Financial services technology practice

Our Financial Services team offers:-

• Extensive expertise within the financial technology sector
• An understanding of industry issues and their implications for the sector
• Extensive relationships with top level media and other key influencers
• Partnerships with relevant trade organizations and other market participants

The team includes members with in-house expertise gained while working at industry participants such as Citibank, HSBC, LIFFE, Reuters and Sungard. Additionally, we have recruited from financial technology media including Banking Technology, FXWeek and FinanceAsia. To maintain expertise, we run specialist training programs to ensure knowledge is spread throughout all team members.

Metia's financial technology client list includes

• Many of the world's largest financial solutions providers
• A large number of specialist applications providers
• The vertically aligned financial services divisions of broad-based technology organizations

Twenty years of financial technology

We have been responsible for popularizing many familiar industry themes and trends. In retail banking, we helped our clients to push forward the discussion around new delivery channels, from the merits of the earliest clunky touchpad telephones and teletext-based services, through to the latest innovations in wireless and mobile banking. In the financial markets, alongside our clients we lived through Taurus, participated in CREST, strived for STP and T+0 and now we are communicating the implications of SEPA and MIFID.

Financial institutions continue to drive over 20 per cent of all IT investment. They remain committed early adopters, always in search of an elusive trading advantage, or incremental improvements in customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

In short, financial institutions continue to be a critical audience segment.

Retail banking

• Cards
• Branch automation
• CRM
• Integrated delivery channels
• Internet and mobile

Wholesale banking

• Trading
• Risk
• Investment management
• Settlement
• Custody

Insurance

• General insurance
• Life & pensions