I am an experienced (Austrian) German to (British) English translator specialising in financial market supervision law. For over 25 years, I have worked within the Austrian public and private sectors. Since 2014, I have been the Austrian Financial Market Authority’s only in-house translator, and my work has included translation of all aspects of banking supervision and resolution – from the cradle (authorisation/licensing) to the grave (orderly wind-down in resolution) of supervised entities.
I have translated a wide variety of primary and secondary Austrian legislation, soft law instruments, as well as web content and financial literacy information. I am LangTecha portmanteau for language technology, meaning assistive use of technology in relation to language processing tasks. More savvy, pre-dominantly as a power user of Trados and MultiTerm (since 2004) but remain a strong advocate of the preservation of human translators and interpreters, to the extent of pushing for an Expert in the Lead (XITL)EITL/XITL advocates the expert human in the lead rather than in the loop. More approach from the side of the translation profession, rather than the industry’s preference towards MITLMachine in the loop is an approach to human/machine translation. Under Machine in the Loop, a human expert (i.e. a translator) makes use of computer-based tools to support them in the translation process. This approach contrasts “human in the loop” (HITL), which only has subordinate human involvement. HITL also does not state whether the human involved is necessary an expert. More or HITLHuman in the loop is an approach advocated by the translation industry, whereby machine translation is used and the role of human translators is secondary – e.g. doing some kind of post-editing. It has become particularly prevalent with the rise of LLMs. My issues with HITL is that it reduces the role of a human (with no mention of their More solutions. I presented about my XITLEITL/XITL advocates the expert human in the lead rather than in the loop. More approach at FIT XXIII (the International Federation of Translation’s 23rd World Congress, held in Geneva in September 2025). I speak regularly at national, international and global conferences in a private capacity.
I’ve also taken a numerous data science and AI courses – and am receptive to the use of AI for increasing productivity, by delegating the grunt work to it. In 2022-23 I took several Python courses, although stopped pursuing these once GenAI started to perform similar operations. I completed a number of courses in Coursera as part of the Single Supervisory MechanismThe Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), housed at the European Central Bank, has been operational since November 2014 and is the mechanism under which Europe’s largest banks are directly supervised by the European Central Bank – through Joint Supervisory Teams (JSTs) staffed by the European Central Bank and national competent authorities (NCAs). See the SSM Website for further information. More Data Science School initiative.