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DARRAGH MCCARTHY
FOUNDER & CEO
Darragh McCarthy is the CEO and Founder of FinTrU. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in 1994 and remained there until late 2012. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Darragh was based in London, Frankfurt and New York and held various responsibilities including Global COO for Institutional Securities, COO for EMEA, Head of Fixed Income Sales North America and Head of Fixed Income Sales EMEA.
In 2013 Darragh founded FinTrU recognising the increasing demand from Global Investment Banks for high-quality resources to navigate the ever-increasing regulatory landscape. Whilst managed as a profit-driven organisation, Darragh also considers FinTrU as having a social purpose to create high-quality professional employment on the island of Ireland.
Darragh has a First Class Honours BComm International from University College of Dublin, Ireland. He has been nominated for EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018. Darragh speaks fluent German and Dutch.
DARRAGH MCCARTHY
FOUNDER & CEO
Darragh McCarthy is the CEO and Founder of FinTrU. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in 1994 and remained there until late 2012. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Darragh was based in London, Frankfurt and New York and held various responsibilities including Global COO for Institutional Securities, COO for EMEA, Head of Fixed Income Sales North America and Head of Fixed Income Sales EMEA.
In 2013 Darragh founded FinTrU recognising the increasing demand from Global Investment Banks for high-quality resources to navigate the ever-increasing regulatory landscape. Whilst managed as a profit-driven organisation, Darragh also considers FinTrU as having a social purpose to create high-quality professional employment on the island of Ireland.
Darragh has a First Class Honours BComm International from University College of Dublin, Ireland. He has been nominated for EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018. Darragh speaks fluent German and Dutch.
FinTrU empowers team to think like entrepreneurs
with Co-Founders partnership
WEDNESDAY 9 MARCH 2022
FinTrU, has partnered with Catalyst to give its employees the chance to undertake unique entrepreneurship training on the Co-Founders programme.
Catalyst is an independent, not-for-profit organisation focused on fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, supporting transformative businesses and developing Northern Ireland’s tech industry. FinTrU is a multi-award-winning technologically enabled Regulatory Solutions company, specialising in the areas of KYC, Compliance, Legal, Risk & Controls and Operations.
In April last year Catalyst announced a new partnership with FinTrU, which has seen the two organisations work together to grow and enhance Northern Ireland’s fintech sector.
Now, FinTrU is supporting five of its staff across all functions of the business to participate in Co-Founders, a unique entrepreneurship programme that brings together ambitious and skilled individuals from technical and commercial backgrounds to form teams of like-minded people, build creative confidence and develop new product ideas focused on technology, engineering and science.
FinTrU recognises the benefits that using design thinking to solve real world problems will have for its business and is supporting employees to participate in the Co-Founders programme as part of their on-going commitment to continuous professional development.
Emma Pollock, Chief Technology Officer of FinTrU, said: “At FinTrU, we want to empower our workforce to think entrepreneurially, and the Co-Founders programme allows us to do just that. The programme enables our employees to gain an understanding of the product development and prototyping process, which can potentially help us in testing potential solutions more rapidly. Developing these skills not only benefit the individuals involved, but also benefits us as a company.
“We want to encourage all of our employees to get involved and will support any of those that want to take their ideas beyond the proof-of-concept stage.”
Hannah Cummings, Programme Manager of Catalyst Co-Founders said: “It is fantastic that FinTrU understands that empowering their people to adopt the mindset of a start-up and develop entrepreneurial skills will add real value to their company.
“Companies should not be afraid of empowering their staff with the skills learned on Co-Founders as we believe they can bring those new skills back into their jobs and enhance their contributions to the business.”
FinTrU works with Investment Banks around the globe in designing technology-enabled solutions to help them meet their regulatory obligations The company has enjoyed rapid growth in the past few years and now has a total headcount of more than 1,000 people in Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, London, Dublin, Maastricht and New York.
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