Speakers'Biographies

Keynote Address

The development of the global funds industry, and Ireland's role in it

What Dublin has to do to avoid losing what it has and participate in a larger but much more competitive world

Regulatory Framework - the US and IMF perspective

1. Trends in US banking regulation (and the recent Financial Modernization Act of 1999) as they affect international banks (including Irish banks and banks with operations in Ireland's IFSC)

2. Perspective on the outlook for banking regulation, in the US and internationally, and what it could mean for institutions operating in Ireland

3. My role on the IMF Core Principles Assessment team for Ireland and future challenges for supervisors in implementing the Core Principles and assessing compliance with them

Case Study: Northern Trust Ireland :

Fitting the New Piece Into The Whole - The Irish Opportunity

- Managing Growth

- Northern Trust Ireland and the Future

Case Study: Fundsworld

The establishment of a funds supermarket in Dublin

The Future for Financial Services in Ireland - a Public Policy Perspective.

- Medium term strategic issues; - Internationalisation of the banking sector;

- The IFSC post-10 per cent;

- EU financial market policies.

Case Study: Prudential Europe

* IFSC Operation - history, what it came to Dublin, how it evolved, where it is now

* some achievements, innovations, changes

* the advantage of Dublin - now versus when it started in 1994 - if we had to make the decision again - would we still come?

* the move from tax breaks, back office and low cost processing to adding value - the further role for the Dublin operation

* Role of legislation in Ireland and the EU - and the effects on our EU operations

* Our Pan European strategy and the roll out of that strategy

* How the Dublin operation fits into the overall delivery of Prudential Europe strategy

* How the Dublin management and pan-European management interact to make things happen

* Lessons from Prudential in Asia and America

* Role of e-commerce and the potential of our new IT platform

Ciaran McGettrick, managing director, Prudential Dublin

and

Chris Evans, managing director, Prudential Europe

An auditor's perspective on local and global regulation of IFSC companies -

Developments in the risk management approach adopted by international financial institutions including operational risk, capital adequacy, money laundering and enterprise wide risk management

- How regulators are responding to and encouraging certain of these changes

- The impact for managing operations in the IFSC

Taxation and the IFSC : Compliance issues

Electronic Commerce

DIRT

Double Tax Treaties

OECD Cooperation

Case Study: Zurich Capital Markets

* The banking and insurance world combine - Zurich Insurance Company becomes Zurich Financial Services Group

* The birth of Zurich Capital Markets

* The key role for Dublin in the expansion of the group's business

* Dealing with the regulatory challenges ahead

Case Study: Gensec Ireland

Marius Ferreira, Managing Director of Gensec Bank, South Africa,

& Peter O'Dwyer, CEO Gensec Ireland

Financial Architecture and the Role of the IMF

* The IMF and the Financial Sector

* The Financial Sector Assessment Program

* The Official Response to Recent Financial Crises

* The IMF as Crisis Manager

* Looking Ahead

Michael Taylor, senior economist, International Monetary Fund, Washington, and author of 'Twin Peaks - A Regulatory Structure for the New Century'

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