IFSC: THE SECOND GENERATION -
Preparing for new cross border financial services markets in Europe and beyond

At the BURLINGTON HOTEL, DUBLIN

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Over 60 speakers included:

• Charlie McCreevy, Minister for Finance of Ireland
• Prof Paolo Cecchini, author of the Cecchini Report on the 'Cost of non-Europe'
• Steffen Matthias, Secretary General of FEFSI, the European Funds Industry Association
• John Hurley, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland
• William Coen, member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
• Michael Noonan, leader of the main Opposition party, Fine Gael
• Alan Pickering, Chairman European Federation for Retirement Provision
• Dermot McCarthy, Secretary General, Department of An Taoiseach, and Chairman of the Custom House Clearing Group
• Pat Wall, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dublin
• Willie McGee, Detective Superintendent, Money Laundering Unit, Garda Siochana
• Jürgen Karcher, CFO, Member of the Board, DEPFA Bank
• Wally Höfer-Neder, Global Head of Capital Markets, DEPFA Bank
• Padraig O hUiginn, former Secretary of the Taoiseach's Department, and Secretary of the Department at the time the Government took the initiative to found the IFSC, in 1987
• Donald Watson, Director Standard & Poor's, New York
• Alexander Batchvarov, Head of International Structured Finance Research, Merrill Lynch
• Philip Woolfson, Partner Oppenheimer Woolf & Donnelly
• Paul Carroll, Managing Partner, A&L Goodbody
• Jérôme Halbout, Managing Director, Societe Generale Asset Management, Paris
• David Benmoussan, Societe Generale
• Brendan Logue, Head of the Financial Services Division, IDA Ireland
• Willie Slattery, Chief Executive, Deutsche International (Ireland)
• Paul McGowan, Partner, KPMG
• Colm Fagan, Chairman, Life Strategies Ltd
• Ian Clancy, Managing Director, Marsh Management Services Dublin Ltd
• Tom Healy, Chief Executive, Irish Stock Exchange
• Dr. Ronan O'Connor, Principal External Consultant to the ICB project
• Joseph Beashel, Managing Director Invesco Ireland
• Frank Mullen, Assistant Secretary, Irish Revenue Commissioners
• Michael O'Grady, Assistant Secretary, Irish Revenue Commissioners
• Gerry Brady, Managing Director, Bank of Bermuda
• Harley Murphy, Managing Director, Mellon Fund Administration (Dublin) Ltd
• Torlach Denihan, Director, FSIA
• Gary Palmer, Chief Executive, DFIA
• Enda Twomey, Director, FIBI
• Eamon O'Brien, Chairman of the Taoiseach's Insurance Group
• Kenth Eldebrink, CEO, Euroben Life and Pension Limited
• Andrew Carr, Managing Director, Marsh Management Services (Bermuda) Ltd.
• Jon Little, newly appointed Chief Executive, Mellon Global Investment
• Anthony Myers, COO, INVESCO Global
• David Dillon, Managing Partner, Dillon Eustace
• Peter Geissel, Head of Business Services, Dolmne Securities
• David Lawless, Tax & Legal Services Partner, PwC
• Gabriele Mueller, Director, Merrill Lynch
• Jeff Spencer, Vice President, Merrill Lynch
• Paul Kenny, Head of Retirement Research, Mercer
• Dermot Hardy, Assistant Director of Banking, BGB
• Tom Meade, Senior Banking Regulator, CBI
• Niamh Brennan, Michael McCormack Professor of Management, UCD
• Garrett O'Neill, Director of the Financial Services Practice of Andersen Ireland
• Eddie Fogarty, Managing Director, FTI
• John Feely, Chairman, IAPF
• Maria O'Connell, Managing Director, Networth Consulting

Three seminars and a workshop ran concurrently with the main two-day conference programme

Seminar 1: The new Irish Covered Bond - latest developments

The Irish Covered Bond - From Legislation to Market

Seminar 2: Securitisation in Dublin

Dublin: A Centre of Excellence in the ABS World

Seminar 3: Pan European Corporate Pensions

Ireland as a Location for pan-European Pension funds for Multinational Corporations

Workshop 4: Corporate Treasury

Corporate treasury in the IFSC post 10 per cent