Industry experience

Financial services

Stockbrokers Migration Programme

Client
Barclays Stockbrokers
Sector
Financial services

Project description

Barclays Stockbrokers acquired Charles Schwab Europe (CSE).  Barclays instigated a change programme to:

  • Enhance the Barclays Stockbrokers’ proposition to a ‘best of both companies’ offering, including development of a new website;
  • Migrate the CSE customers onto the improved Barclays platform;
  • Decommission and sell the CSE infrastructure and offices.

ItemPlus provided assistance to the programme in the following areas:

  • Programme managing the Operations and IT change programme, which included:
    • Product design
    • Client migration
    • Operations and IT change
    • Training
    • Client Communications;
  • Project managing the systems enhancements required to the Barclays Stockbrokers IT platform;
  • Technical assistance with performance tuning and infrastructure design;
  • Project managing the expansion of the client contact centre.