IRESS has strengthened the leadership of its Financial Markets business with the appointment of Matthew Rady as its new Group Executive, Financial Markets.
Reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Walsh, Mr Rady will be responsible for leading IRESS’ Financial Markets business globally.
The Financial Markets business is a core division within IRESS providing market data and trading software and services to institutional and retail participants, representing professional and private end users. IRESS operates in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Announcing the appointment today, Mr Walsh said the new role would be focused on growing IRESS’ financial markets business globally.
“Matthew is an outstanding executive with impressive international and local experience. The breadth and depth of this experience, including in financial services product innovation and technology-enabled, customer-focused roles, makes him ideally suited to this position and will bring an invaluable perspective to our existing business delivery and global growth.”
“The new role is a strategic response to our global growth plans and the opportunities being presented by this.”
Mr Rady joins IRESS from Macquarie Group where he spent 18 years as Executive Director of the Banking and Financial Services Group. Mr Rady was responsible for the development and growth of a range of businesses, with roles including accountability for product delivery, business strategy, acquisition and integrations, and management of international operations. Most recently, Mr Rady was head of Macquarie’s North American Banking and Financial Services Group, based in Toronto.
Mr Rady said that he was delighted to be joining the IRESS team.
“The company has gone through significant growth internationally over the past 12 months and I am excited about the opportunity to support existing clients as well as executing IRESS’ overall growth strategy in key markets.”
Mr Rady will be based in Sydney and commenced with IRESS on Monday.
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