HOIST FINANCE
Hoist Finance uses a combination of data and technology to collect debts from millions of customers
Hoist Finance is a debt purchaser , specialising in non-performing debts , primarily from banks or financial institutions . It is based in Sweden and has a presence throughout Europe , including the UK , Germany , Poland , France , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and Austria .
Anders Wallin has been CIO since 2012 , starting with the goal to update the company so it could manage its plans for growth – expansion that has seen it increase from about 350 to 1,700 employees . “ I think it ’ s also interesting that we come from an investment volume of about 50 million euros in 2011 to where we are now at 450 million euros ,” Wallin adds . Another key task that Wallin was brought in to achieve was to support entry onto the Swedish stock market , and it is now listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Mid-Cap list .
Wallin is responsible for four pillars within Hoist Finance : IT- Service , which manages IT service operations from an end-to-end perspective ; Business Applications , which is responsible for system development , datawarehouse architecture , and business applications ; Group Analytics and the central Project Management Office , which oversees all projects within Hoist . The organisation is federated with about 40 group staff and 40 local staff .
Wallin describes Hoist Finance as ‘ an information-driven , technologybased company .’ And both the data and the tech have been pivotal
54 April 2016