The contract is for the supply of licenses, professional services, hosting and support, for a period of three years. The project will begin immediately and is due to go live early next year. Blue Curve will provide the bank with a hosted solution that will facilitate the production and distribution of its research products at optimum levels of quality and efficiency. Bank of Ireland global markets expects the software to allow it to improve customer service and gain significant production efficiencies for their research offerings.

Mark Robertson, managing director of financial markets division at Corero, said: I am delighted that Bank of Ireland Global Markets division has selected to provide specialist advice and an effective software platform. This decision underlines the wide market appeal of the Blue Curve solution. We look forward to working with Bank of Ireland to build and operate a highly efficient research production platform that will bring them significant operational benefits.