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Iress: Leadership Change
Alex Hore, Managing Director of Iress's UK Wealth business, has resigned, according to a Money Marketing exclusive.
Source: GN — ASX:IRE Iress
- What happened
- Alex Hore, Managing Director of Iress's UK Wealth business, has resigned, according to a Money Marketing exclusive.
- Who
- Iress · Banking/Financial Services · UK
- When
- 2026-10-26
- Source
- GN — ASX:IRE Iress
- So what
- A change at the top rarely stays at the top.
The leadership read
A change at the top rarely stays at the top. Iress's move reshapes the layer beneath it in Banking/Financial Services as a new leader sets priorities and the team re-forms. Watch the first two or three appointments that follow; they signal direction more reliably than any statement.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 109 (Hot), up 7.3 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow easing (-3.1pts).
Iress: 5 signals in the last 90 days — above the Banking/Financial Services median of 1 across 9 tracked companies; 0.2% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 9 tracked across 165 days.
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Where this lands in our work
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