Chris Pickles
Head of Industry Initiatives
BT Global Banking & Financial Markets, UK
- Industry:
- Telecommunications
- Annual turnover:
- €21bn
- Treasury staff:
- 13
- Treasury structure:
- Fully centralised
- TMS:
- Yes – eTC from Wall Street
- Cross-border pooling:
- Yes
- Cash rich or debt:
- Both – but more debt than cash
Speaker profile
Chris Pickles is Head of Industry Initiatives for BT Global Banking & Financial Markets. His responsibilities include interpreting the impact of industry and technology changes and new regulations on BT's customers across the financial services sector globally. Chris has over thirty-seven years experience in the financial technology sector internationally.
Speaker profile
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services, operating in more than 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale. In the year ended 31 March 2011, BT Group’s revenue was £20,076 million with profit before taxation of £1,717 million.
