| Time Slot |
DAY ONE
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Speaker |
| 8:30 |
Registration
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| 9:00 |
Opening remarks from the Chair |
Niamh Brennan, Michael McCormack Professor
of Management at UCD |
| 9:10 |
Why revise the 1988 Basel Accord?
* What is the Basel Committee trying to achieve?
* Who are the likely winners and users?
* Implications for banks
* Implications for borrowers (including small and medium-sized
enterprises - 'SMEs')
* Outlook and timeframe for implementation
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Bill Coen, member of the Basel Committee
on Banking Supervision |
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The local perspective
* what approaches are being taken by the Irish banking community?
* what about IFSC based entities?
* a regulatory requirement or simply good management?
| Garrett O'Neill, Director, Financial Services
Practice, Andersen, Ireland |
| 9:50 |
Taxation of Financial Services in the EU - Outlook & Trends
* Future of harmful tax competition campaign
* Impact of enforcement of state aid rules
* EU position on tax harmonisation
* New low tax centres following enlargement
* Trends in regulation and their impact
* The future for pan European mutual funds and pensions
* Action at OECD level
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Paul McGowan, partner, KPMG |
| 10:10 |
Case Study: Bank of Bermuda
* Repositioning
* European banking hub
* Regulatory developments & opportunities
* Prime brokers, UCITS lll and other issues
* Hedge funds industry, Dublin and Bank of Bermuda
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Gerry Brady, country head,
Bank of Bermuda |
| 10:35 |
Coffee
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| 10:55 |
Tax Compliance - OECD
* Fair and unfair tax competition
* OECD's 'rules of the game'
* Regimes in the member states
* Co-operative and unco-operative tax havens
* Exchange of information EU
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Frank Mullen, assistant secretary, Irish Revenue Commissioners
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Tax Compliance - EU
* Developments in the area of direct taxation
* Update of the code of conduct for business taxation
* Progress on the taxation of savings directive
* Proposals for removing tax - obstacles in the internal market
* Proposals for a consolidated corporate tax base
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Michael O'Grady, assistant secretary, Irish Revenue Commissioners
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| 11.30 |
A Dublin Reinsurance Market Emerges
* why the reinsurance market is evolving in Dublin
* attractions of Dublin for a reinsurer
* global reach of a Dublin reinsurer
* Potential growth of the sector
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Donald Watson, head of insurance analytic unit, Standard & Poor's,
New York
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| 12.00 |
Case Study: Société Générale in Dublin - Establishing a Private
Equity Fund in Ireland - Benefits offered by the IFSC relative to
other possible locations
* How the SG group established operations in Dublin
* SG & SG Asset Management current activities : asset management
and administration, trustee and custody.
* Why was Dublin recently chosen by SG Asset Management for a
new international private equity fund?
* The fund's experience with its incorporation
* Level of service and qualifications found in Dublin
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Jérôme Halbout, managing director, Société Générale Asset Management
and Alain Smeraldi, general manager, Société Générale Asset Management
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| 12.30 |
LUNCH
Sponsored by:
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| 14:30 |
Introductory remarks from the Chair |
Colm Fagan, managing director, Life Strategies |
| 14:40 |
Pan-European developments in funds:
* State of the industry
* The new UCITS Directive:
* Wider investment opportunities
* more investor protection
* simplified cross-border distribution
* a passport for the management company
* Distance marketing of financial services: general aspects, e-commerce
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Steffen Matthias, secretary general, FEFSI
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| 15:10 |
Case Study: Marsh
* Cross border insurance business within the EU
* Marsh's role in this marketplace
* The challenges and opportunities moving forward
* Insurance, Ireland and Marsh - post Sept 11
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Ian Clancy, managing director, Marsh Management
Services (Ireland) Ltd and Andrew Carr, managing director Marsh Management
Services (Bermuda) Ltd |
| 15:40 |
COFFEE |
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| 16:00 |
Advertent & Inadvertent Barriers to Free Trade in Financial Services
* EU after Lamfalussy
* Where is Lamfalussy now?
* Has the situation improved?
* Japan - what is the impact of the new FSA approach?
* US - ours is the only way
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Willie Slattery, chief executive, Deutsche International (Ireland)
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| 16:30 |
Money Laundering & The Fight Against Terrorism
* the impact of recent terrorist attacks on the international
financial community
* strengthening of international anti-money laundering measures
* practical steps which can be taken by financial institutions
and governments to stop money laundering
* how cases of international money laundering are handled and
tackled
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Willie McGee, detective superindent, Money Laundering Unit, Garda
Siochana
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| 17:00 |
Closing Remarks
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| 17:15 |
Conference Ends |
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