YEARBOOK & DIRECTORY
Finance Dublin Yearbook 2023
PREFACE
A snapshot of Ireland as a jurisdiction for finance, its companies and people
The Finance Dublin Yearbook 2023 is the 30th edition of the Yearbook, first published in 1991 four years after the designation of a Government-sponsored initiative, the ‘IFSC’ in 1987. Since 1987, coinciding with the establishment by the Irish state in conjunction with the EU, then the EEC, of an international financial services centre in Dublin, Ireland, Finance (Dublin), has chronicled the evolution of financial services in Ireland in its wider international context. At the heart of the Yearbook are the profiles of the companies, organisations, and people that make up the centre, which now incorporates the entire jurisdiction of Ireland.
Also in the heart of the Yearbook is its “Review & Outlook” sections which provide an annual perspective on the evolution of Ireland’s international financial services industry covered on a monthly basis during the course of the year in the columns of Finance Dublin. In 2022, Finance Dublin marked the 35th anniversary of the establishment by the Irish Government of the ‘International Financial Services Centre’ with the publication of the entire archive of Yearbooks, Finance Dublin and Finance Magazine, in a searchable archive available online.
At the heart of the Yearbook are the annually updated directory sections, including the profiles of Ireland’s International Financial Services companies, (the IFS Companies ‘A-Z‘ Guide), which record in print and e-paper, and online (www.FinanceDublin.com./yearbook) significant changes in the history of the 500 plus companies profiled. The Professional Services Guide (PSG) lists the principal corporate organisations, (many now incorporated as LLPs) and its “Who’s Who” records of leading financial services advisers in the legal, accountancy, and consulting professional disciplines.
The “Who’s Who” is a searchable online directory of Top Professional Services practitioners in the Financial Services sector and their Finance specialist areas. It can be accessed at the following url: https://www.financedublin.com/yearbook/advisers/where the “ADVISER SEARCHES” are the main Access Point for the “Who’s Who”.
The PSG is a database of the leading Professional Services firms. These are listed in the Yearbook.
The PSG and “Who’s Who” is an online searchable database which is a guide to the professional expertise in the jurisdiction under multiple specialisms and highlighted in the columns of Finance Dublin and in the annual Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards.
It features c.1,000 of the leading finance and financial professionals in the jurisdiction. The “Who’s Who” is a list of individual professionals attached to the leading (100+) PSG firms.
Approximately 375 of these appear in the print and E-paper version of the Yearbook, their appearance there being supported through advertising packages subscribed to by firms listed in the PSG.
A perusal of the “Who’s Who” Sections of the PSG provides an impression of how important individual learned expertise of professional advisers is to the product that makes up Irish international financial services.
The corporate side of the PSG is also fast evolving, particularly marked not just by personnel changes in the professional services sectors, but
also corporate developments. The establishment of new legal enterprises in Ireland, supplemented in the past year by the entry of accounting firms KPMG and EY to the legal sector are examples. Also institutional changes are reflected in new entries this year for Arbitration Ireland, the Tax Appeals Commission, an increasingly important body on the Irish and international tax landscape, and the Law Reform Commission, now under the leadership of former Chief Justice Frank Clarke, a pioneer of the “Ireland for Law” agenda as Chief Justice.
This agenda increasingly is stimulating the appearance of landmark cases in finance, such as are recorded in the Finance Dublin annual Deals of the Year Awards, cross referenced through various parts of the publication as vivid evidence of the evolving capabilities available in the jurisdiction.
The other directory sections, the State Regulatory & Industry Bodies, have also reflected the development of the increased role of security issues for the sector, for example the state cyber security support services, increasingly important in a fintech age, and, in the security area, the anti crime support agencies such as the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau.
Also listed in the State, Regulatory & Industry Bodies’ section are the industry representative bodies that have grown and emerged as a consequence of the growth of the financial services industry.
The articles in the Review and Outlook sections provide broad industry perspectives and focussed insights on the development of the different sectoral areas that make up the IFS industry.
The 2023 Yearbook, published in print, is also published in ‘Epaper’ form. The Yearbook website at www.financedublin.com/yearbook/ is a platform and ‘shop window’ for the companies, advisory firms and support ecosystem that makes Ireland the financial services centre that it is.
At the heart of the Yearbook are the annually updated directory sections, including the profiles of Ireland’s International Financial Services companies, (the IFS Companies ‘A-Z‘ Guide), which record in print and e-paper, and online (www.FinanceDublin.com./yearbook) significant changes in the history of the 500 plus companies profiled. The Professional Services Guide (PSG) lists the principal corporate organisations, (many now incorporated as LLPs) and its “Who’s Who” records of leading financial services advisers in the legal, accountancy, and consulting professional disciplines.
The “Who’s Who” is a searchable online directory of Top Professional Services practitioners in the Financial Services sector and their Finance specialist areas. It can be accessed at the following url: https://www.financedublin.com/yearbook/advisers/where the “ADVISER SEARCHES” are the main Access Point for the “Who’s Who”.
The PSG is a database of the leading Professional Services firms. These are listed in the Yearbook.
The PSG and “Who’s Who” is an online searchable database which is a guide to the professional expertise in the jurisdiction under multiple specialisms and highlighted in the columns of Finance Dublin and in the annual Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards.
It features c.1,000 of the leading finance and financial professionals in the jurisdiction. The “Who’s Who” is a list of individual professionals attached to the leading (100+) PSG firms.
Approximately 375 of these appear in the print and E-paper version of the Yearbook, their appearance there being supported through advertising packages subscribed to by firms listed in the PSG.
A perusal of the “Who’s Who” Sections of the PSG provides an impression of how important individual learned expertise of professional advisers is to the product that makes up Irish international financial services.
The corporate side of the PSG is also fast evolving, particularly marked not just by personnel changes in the professional services sectors, but
also corporate developments. The establishment of new legal enterprises in Ireland, supplemented in the past year by the entry of accounting firms KPMG and EY to the legal sector are examples. Also institutional changes are reflected in new entries this year for Arbitration Ireland, the Tax Appeals Commission, an increasingly important body on the Irish and international tax landscape, and the Law Reform Commission, now under the leadership of former Chief Justice Frank Clarke, a pioneer of the “Ireland for Law” agenda as Chief Justice.
This agenda increasingly is stimulating the appearance of landmark cases in finance, such as are recorded in the Finance Dublin annual Deals of the Year Awards, cross referenced through various parts of the publication as vivid evidence of the evolving capabilities available in the jurisdiction.
The other directory sections, the State Regulatory & Industry Bodies, have also reflected the development of the increased role of security issues for the sector, for example the state cyber security support services, increasingly important in a fintech age, and, in the security area, the anti crime support agencies such as the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau.
Also listed in the State, Regulatory & Industry Bodies’ section are the industry representative bodies that have grown and emerged as a consequence of the growth of the financial services industry.
The articles in the Review and Outlook sections provide broad industry perspectives and focussed insights on the development of the different sectoral areas that make up the IFS industry.
The 2023 Yearbook, published in print, is also published in ‘Epaper’ form. The Yearbook website at www.financedublin.com/yearbook/ is a platform and ‘shop window’ for the companies, advisory firms and support ecosystem that makes Ireland the financial services centre that it is.