Martin has been employed within the banking industry for over 10 years, working for companies such as Petra Financial, CB.Net, Thomson Financial and The London Stock Exchange. Most recently Martin has been focusing on the payments market, specifically mobile and internet products for the banks internal and customer facing activities.

Kerry Hewson, Director, Bankers' Almanac commented saying "With Martin's history within the banking industry and his deep understanding of the end users' interaction with payments data, Martin will further focus our efforts in the most relevant direction for our customers."

Within Bankers' Almanac Martin's responsibility will be to deliver new solutions expand the payments product portfolio, and to further extend the breadth of our data. This will facilitate Bankers' Almanac in its drive to deliver highly relevant and accurate payments solutions to new audiences and allow for existing customers to consume the data in the most efficient way.

Martin stated: "With over 5 years experience within the payments industry working for both data and software providers, I bring to both Bankers' Almanac and the role new and exciting ways to develop our Payments Solutions for our customers and partners."

He went on to say, "Bankers' Almanac is a leading name within the international banking market with such a strong heritage of delivering essential international banking information, which is core to a banks business. Being part of its future is a great opportunity."