The Financial Centres Summit, Dublin, 2017, will also be addressed by key Brexit decisionmakers, including new Barclays Ireland post Brexit CEO, Kevin Wall, JP Morgan UK holding co. chair, Sir Win Bischoff, and over 80 other speakers.

Barclays has confirmed that Ireland will be the location for its post-Brexit EU banking plans having indicated that Dublin would be its chosen location, in the event of a so-called 'hard Brexit' as far back as January. Having recently installed a new CEO at its Irish bank, it described Dublin as a 'natural base' for its EU hub.

Bank of America has chosen Dublin as the post-Brexit location for its main EU legal entities with CEO and Chair Brian Moynihan describing Dublin as 'the natural location' for the bank.

Sir John is head of the UK's Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Cybersecurity, CSIT,at Queens, Belfast, and its academic Principal Investigator. A driving force behind the creation of the Northern Ireland Science Park, a former board member of the Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork he has also founded, and sold, two technology companies based on his research activities. With cybersecurity identified as the top technology area of concern by Ireland's FS industry in the recent Finance Dublin/Deloitte Research Report, Professor McCanny, will address cybersecurity and financial services themes. He was the only Northern Irish person knighted in the 2017 honours list. For more details: Financial Centres Summit 2017

The survey, amongst the 500 Companies included in the 2017 Finance Dublin Yearbook, carried out in collaboration with Deloitte also finds that overall employment increased amongst the companies surveyed last year by 4.6 per cent and that Regulation and Supervision issues are the most important concerns.

Citi's EMEA head Jim Cowles has revealed the US bank's Brexit plans with Dublin being chosen as one of a number of locations that will see additional headcount.

12th July 2017: Beazley plc is to establish its European insurance company in Dublin, growing its Irish presence which it had reduced in recent years. Beazley CEO Andrew Horton said 'we have long considered it [Dublin] an attractive potential location from which to develop our European business.' The move reverses the decision by Beazley to scale down its Dublin presence after it moved its head office from Dublin back to London in 2016.

June 1987 saw the publication of the first edition of Finance Magazine, which we merged in 2009 as a title with what was originally a newsletter, Finance Dublin, to form the present Finance Dublin. For us therefore, this edition marks our thirtieth year of continuous publication. see more here

June 28th 2017: In a sign of the growing importance of the economic relations between Ireland and China, Bank of China today opened its Dublin branch. Bank of China already has a presence in Ireland through its aircraft leasing operation, BOC Aviation (Ireland) Ltd, which will continue to operate as a separate business unit.

12th June 2017: The rapid growth of Northern Trust's Limerick operations since it was set up in 2007 is to continue over the next fives years as the Chicago-headquartered bank plans to add 400 new jobs in Limerick. The initial 19 Limerick-based staff has already grown beyond 1000 staff.

The annual Yearbook, now in its 24th edition profiles 579 institutions overall, including 500 companies in the Irish IFS industry; It profiles 38 Market Infrastructures, Industry Representative bodies and public sector agencies, including IDA Ireland and the Departments of Finance and the Taoiseach, the Irish Stock Exchange and the Central Bank of Ireland as well as 41 professional services firms servicing IFS in Ireland.

To mark 30 Years of the IFSC, HSBC Securities Services' Paul Heffernan has traced HSBC's historic Irish connections going back to the late 1880s in Hong Kong, in this article in the 2017 Finance Dublin Yearbook

The Finance Dublin Yearbook on the IFSC's future and history to date examines some forecasts made at the halfway point - (2003), compares them with what actually transpired, and arrives at some striking conclusions...

JPMorgan will hire a 'significant' number of people for its custody and fund services business in Ireland in the next three years according to James Kenny, the US bank's head of investor services. The move gives further momentum to Ireland's funds industry which has been expected to benefit from funds companies looking to secure access to the EU single market in the wake of Brexit.