Author: Michael Bailey

Michael Bailey is an experienced (Austrian) German to (British) English translator focusing on financial market supervision law. As a freelancer until 2014, he worked with customers within the Austrian public and private sectors, and since 2014 has been involved in translation of all aspects of banking supervision and resolution – from the cradle (authorisation/licensing) to the grave (orderly wind-down in resolution). He has translated a wide variety of primary and secondary Austrian legislation, soft law instruments, as well as web content and financial literacy information at the FMA. While being LangTech savvy, pre-dominantly as a power user of Trados and MultiTerm (since 2004), Michael remains a strong advocate of the preservation of human translators and interpreters, championing the profession’s need to take a leading role, rather than being relegated to having a subsidiary role in the MITL and HITL solutions actively pushed by the industry. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the European Trados User Group, and a member of Universitas (the Austrian Interpreter’s and Translators’ Association) and the Chartered Institute of Linguists. He also writes a personal translation blog (www.transl8r.eu) called “In-house translation – outside the box”.