FinTrU expands compliance teams with over 50 new roles

By Jed Nykolle Harme

August 19, 2026

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FinTrU has announced plans to create more than 50 new jobs in Belfast and the north west through its graduate programme, expanding delivery teams across KYC and AML functions. This is a hiring announcement rather than a transaction, so no consideration applies. It matters because it shows a compliance-services provider scaling headcount specifically to support new contract wins, rather than as general expansion.

FinTrU is a Belfast-headquartered financial services company founded in 2013 by Darragh McCarthy, providing specialist KYC, compliance, risk, legal and regulatory support services to global banks and financial institutions. Its North West delivery hub in Londonderry has operated since 2018.

The firm has hired an average of more than 50 graduates a year over the past three years and expects similar volumes from its current recruitment drive, which runs alongside 23 graduates and placement students already set to join in September.

A high proportion of the new roles will be based at the Londonderry hub, with the remainder in Belfast, continuing FinTrU's pattern of splitting delivery capacity across both sites rather than concentrating growth in a single location.

FinTrU chief people officer Sinead Carville said the company has been consistently impressed with the quality of graduates coming through its scheme and has been able to offer them strong opportunities to grow within the business.

The expansion sits inside a wider regional trend. Invest Northern Ireland describes Northern Ireland as the UK's fastest-growing region for financial and related professional services, citing Belfast as a top Western European location for fintech inward investment and home to global players including Citi and CME Group.

For the sector, FinTrU's continued reliance on its own graduate pipeline, rather than lateral hiring alone, signals that Northern Ireland's compliance and regulatory services firms increasingly see structured graduate intake as core operational infrastructure for absorbing new client contracts at scale.

Source: Belfast Telegraph / Newsletter.co.uk / Invest Northern Ireland