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When Mike Baker touches down in Wollongong, it is as if he hasn’t left his home in London. The grey skies and on and off rain make the Illawarra indistinguishable from Islington, but for the newly appointed managing director of Wollongong and Jamberoo-based financial services firm Finocomp, the connection goes deeper than just the weather. Read more: Flooding and landslips cancel trains across South Coast line Finocomp creates software utilised by UK-asset fund managers for the UK wealth market. Founded by Ray Tubman in 2015, Finocomp has grown to employ software engineers and developers across its two sites in Wollongong and Jamberoo, and Mr Baker said there were no plans to change this. “There are reasons why businesses are successful and it’s going to be the people that work for them.” Indeed, as the company has grown, it was listed on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 companies in Australia, the locations in…