James B Mccarthy

Research and innovation development expert located in the FSIC (Financial Services Innovation Centre) in UCC as well as being a past member of the Consumer Advisory Group of the Central Bank of Ireland. The FSIC research centre is part of the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems with the Cork University Business School (CUBS). JB is focused on stimulating industry/academic research engagements as well as research funded by the EU Horizon2020 programme and other national and international funding agencies. Developing relationships and engaging in innovative research and/or development projects with companies anywhere in the Financial Services value chain has been the hallmark of the FSIC since its inception. JB is also engaged with Executive Education programme development tailored to the fast moving digital economy. He is also presently supporting the internationalisation effort of the Cork University Business School (CUBS) by extending the network of agents for student recruitment as well as linkages to relevant business and university partners in the Middle East. In addition, JB is an accomplished IT executive with multiple years of experience in a North American Corporate HQ environment as well as managing complex projects across several disciplines and geographies (EMEA, ASIA and South America). Responsible for infrastructure, telecoms, application development, data warehouse, business intelligence and IT portfolio projects. Managed all international IT for Fortune 500 company which included large scale shared service projects to support Finance, CS, Marketing, Manufacturing as well as being IT Integration lead for M&A project. Specialties: Research interests include (i) governance, risk and compliance in financial services (ii)

Research interests include (i) governance, risk and compliance in financial services (ii) electronic, mobile and large scale payment systems (iii) service based business and industries (iv) innovation in financial services (v) outsourcing in financial services (vi) AML, KYC and automation in the funds and other industries (vii) workflow automation in financial services (viii) queuing solutions in retail banking and other retail industries (ix) channel strategies for financial service companies (x) Big Data, Open Data, BI, DSS, EIS (xi) FuturICT FET Flagship project www.futurict.eu www.futurict.ie (x) engaged scholarship