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About the Team
We are advertising for an SEO to join our settlement and innovation branch within our Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) Unit.
The FMI unit are a friendly and encouraging branch of 6 people (1 E2 (Grade 6), 2 Es (Grade 7) and 2-3 Ds (HEO/SEO)). FMIs are often described as the ‘plumbing’ of the financial system – without them, most transactions that take place across financial markets couldn’t happen. FMIs underpin the overall stability and resilience of markets and help avoid problems at individual firms from translating to a wider systemic collapse. Given the importance of UK FMIs to the global financial system, they generate significant interest from abroad and this has a strong influence on the unit’s work.
FMIs are also at the forefront of the modernisation of markets, particularly with the advent of new and exciting innovations like distributed ledger technology. The postholder would lead much of the unit’s work in this space, particularly as it relates to central securities depositories (a type of market infrastructure where securities are held and transferred) and digital...