2015

Professor John Turner, Head of School at Queen’s Management School joined Brian Dolaghan, Executive Director for Business and Sector Development with Invest Northern Ireland, Manus Cranny, the European Markets Editor and Anchor presenter at Bloomberg Europe & alumnus of Queen’s Management School, and Fergal Downey, VP of Engineering, Bitnet on Inside Business with Wendy Austin on Sunday 17^th July.

The discussion focused on Northern Ireland’s success at attracting global financial companies to Belfast and the collaboration between industry, government and education to provide the right environment for this to take place.  John Turner spoke about the attractive skills base that Northern Ireland has and the quality of students coming from both universities.  Students leave university with great technical skills, computational finance backgrounds and the confidence to be able to compete in the global marketplace by being able to take part in activities such as the City Scholarship Programme.

You can listen to the programme here http://bbc.in/1Dq6WIk

or download the podcast

If you are interested in working in the Fintech Industry in Northern Ireland, Queen’s Management School offer a range of programmes:

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