US company to create Irish jobs

A US financial services company is creating 77 jobs in Northern Ireland.

Wombat Financial Software is creating the jobs at its Belfast base as part of a £2m (€2,944,156m) investment.

Invest NI, Northern Ireland’s economic development agency, provided financial assistance for the expansion.

The company develops software which is used to supply stock exchange data to financial institutions.

Wombat Financial Software set up in Belfast in 2005 and employs 45 people in the city.