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Who should attend
This course was recorded in September 2022 and is suitable
for
professionals who work in the financial services
industry in Ireland, including members of the IOB and members
of Chartered Accountants Ireland.Course overview
Banking Top Ten Trends for 2022 (Billy O'Connell, Managing Director,
Financial Services Lead at Accenture Ireland).
The Growth of Fintech and the Changing Shape of Financial Services (Joe
Heneghan, CEO Europe - Revolut).
We’re always connected, but are we connecting at work?(Audrey O'Mahony,
Managing Director, Head of Talent & Organisation, Strategy and Consulting,
Accenture)
Sustainability Regulation in Financial Services: Current and Future Trends
(Aisling McCaffrey, Grant Thornton).
The Evolution of Financial Crime Operating Models - (Carol Lawton, Head
of Financial Crime, AIB).
Changing Customer Expectations in a Digital World (Anthony Wolf - Sia
Partners)
ESG investing, implications of new directives, reporting standards, fund,
and investor requirements (Deirdre Timmons, PwC)
Inflation, Reflation or Stagflation: What is the outlook for the global
economy and financial markets? (Interview with Brian Feighan, LearnAltus and
Alan Dunne, Archive Capital).
Panel discussion and summary (Ian Nelson- KPMG
Ireland, John Cotter- University College Dublin, Martina Kelly- IOB)
Closing remarks and event close: (Laura Brouder, Director of Engagement
and Development IOB)
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of this conference, participants will be able
to:
Have an elevated understanding of key issues impacting financial services
professionals in Ireland
Moderator
Brian Feighanis Founder and CEO of LearnAltus, an
education technology company and leading provider of financial and executive
education solutions. He is the creator of Chartered Accountants Ireland Boot
Camp, an online foundation programme in accounting and business which has over
4,500 active students. Brian is also the creator and course director of "Finance
for Managers", a suite of financial skills programmes accredited by Chartered
Accountants Ireland Executive Education DAC. He has consulted widely with
education partners on the design and delivery of education programmes in both
the professional and executive education markets. Prior to establishing
LearnAltus, Brian held leadership roles in education technology and in the
financial services industry. He is a graduate of University College Dublin and a
Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland. He is a member of the Thought
Leadership Committee at Chartered Accountants Ireland and chairs the
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies in Ireland (CCAB-I) working group
for promoting the profession.Speaker Bios
Audrey O’Mahony - Managing Director, Head
of Talent & Organisation, Strategy and Consulting, Accenture
Audrey
O’Mahony is a Managing Director who leads the Talent and Organisation practice
at Accenture in Ireland, where she has worked for over 15 years. Audrey has
spent most of her career working with clients on large scale workforce
transformation programmes, particularly in the financial services sector. She
has also supported a range of Accenture clients on their talent management
agendas, from learning and rapid re-skilling, to talent strategy and employee
proposition, future workforce planning and culture change.
Alan Dunne - Founder and CEO of Archive
Capital
Alan is the Founder and CEO of Archive Capital, a boutique
multi-asset and investment research focused on alternative investment
strategies. He started his career as a foreign exchange analyst and trader,
working for Bank of America in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore and for BNP
Paribas in emerging markets before returning to Dublin to join Allied Irish
Capital Management. He is a CFA Charter holder and holds an MSc Investment
Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an MBA from
Smurfit Business School, and a BA (Mod) in Economics from Trinity College
Dublin.
Joe Heneghan
- CEO Europe for Revolut
Joe
Heneghan is CEO Europe for Revolut, the global financial super-app. Revolut
Europe has more than 12m retail and business customers - including more than
1.5m customers in Ireland. Meanwhile Revolut Bank, which Joe leads, now offers
banking services to consumers in 28 EEA markets. Joe is a member of the European
Central Bank’s European Retail Payments Board, as well as being a board member
of Financial Services Ireland. He has 25 years experience in financial services:
prior to joining Revolut in 2019, he held senior roles at Ulster Bank, having
previously worked at First Active and Permanent TSB. Revolut was founded in 2015
and now has more than 18m customers globally. It employs 2,700 people from over
100 nationalities on its mission to reinvent how the world does
money.Billy O’Connell
- Managing Director, Financial
Services Lead at Accenture Ireland
Billy is Managing Director, Financial Services Lead at
Accenture Ireland and is a member of the Accenture Ireland Leadership Team. He
graduated from MSISS in Trinity College in 1994 and joined Accenture in the UK
in 1994, working in the UK and US before joining the UKI Financial Services
practice and returning to work in Ireland in 1997. Since then, he has worked
predominantly with Irish banks to lead large-scale transformation programmes and
to define, plan and manage complex change challenges to meet strategic business
objectives.Aisling McCaffrey
- Associate Director, FS
Advisory, Grant Thornton
Aisling
McCaffrey is a Chartered Accountant and currently works as an Associate Director
with the Sustainability team in the Financial Services Advisory department of
Grant Thornton. She has over 9 years' experience in the Financial Services
sector working with key clients on a range of projects covering business
strategy, operations, risk management and sustainability. Aisling has a keen
interest in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a particular focus
on gender equality, quality education and climate action. Aisling is the
co-chair of 100 Women in Finance Next Gen committee and a workstream lead of the
FinBiz2030 Irish Taskforce.Deirdre Timmons
– Director, PwC
A Director in
PwC, Deirdre is an experienced senior finance and investment professional with
extensive knowledge and passion for sustainability and Environmental, Social and
Governance (ESG) issues, backed by two Masters qualifications in Investment and
Treasury and Sustainable Energy Finance. She is an experienced industry
collaborator on policy and regulation in the sustainability and ESG
space.
Ken O’Sullivan
- Deputy Chief Executive of
IOB.
Ken is a Fellow of Chartered
Accountants Ireland, Fellow of IOB and completed his accounting training with
PwC. He graduated from University College Cork with a BComm and from University
College Dublin with an MBS. He is an Assistant Professor at UCD Michael Smurfit
Graduate Business School. Ken is the Director of Risk Management Education at
IOB where he has executive responsibility for the academic programmes on the
Professional Educational Framework and the Risk Management Education
portfolio.Ian Nelson
– Head of Financial Services &
Regulatory – KPMG Ireland
Ian
has over 20 years’ experience in providing regulatory, risk management and audit
services to all parts of the Financial Services markets and is banking and
regulatory specialist. Ian’s banking experience includes a secondment with the
Irish Central Bank where he was the Head Financial Measures Programme working
closely with the Irish authorities and international partners in the ECB, IMF
and European Commission.Ian also works directly with a number of the new entrants
into the Irish Financial Services sector such as Fin-Techs and is a FPAI Council
Member.
Pat O’Neill
– Chartered Accountants
Ireland
Pat is the President of Chartered
Accountants in Ireland and has served as a Council member since 2014. A previous
Chairman of the Institute’s Audit, Risk and Finance Board, Pat holds a Bachelor
of Business Studies Degree (Hons) from the University of Limerick and is a
former Chairman of the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants. Co-chair of
EY’s Non Executive Director Forum which brings NEDs together to network and
listen to speakers covering topics of concern to their roles on Boards and Audit
Committees.Carol Lawton
- Head of Financial Crime,
AIB
Carol Lawton is Head of Financial
Crime in AIB, previously Head of First Line Anti Money Laundering in AIB. Prior
to that, Carol was Head of Channel Optimisation, with responsibility for driving
both staff and customer adoption of AIB’s digital and direct channel
capabilities. In this role, Carol placed significant focus on digital education,
and developed a comprehensive staff education programme within AIB. Carol holds
the IOB Certificate, a BSc (Management) from Trinity College, Dublin and the
Professional Diploma in Financial Advice from University College, Dublin. She is
also a certified Agile ScrumMaster.John Cotter
- Professor in Finance and the Chair
in Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin.
John is a Research Fellow at the UCLA Ziman Research Center
for Real Estate. John has previously had visiting positions at UCLA, London
School of Economics, UBC and ESSEC Business School. He has taught extensively on
undergraduate, graduate and executive programmes. John has been awarded a UCD
Faculty of Commerce Outstanding Educator Teaching Award. John is the founding
Director of the Centre for Financial Markets at University College Dublin. He is
the Director of the Financial Mathematics Computation Research Cluster (FMC2) a
multi-university cross-discipline research body in Finance. John is Associate
Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International
Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and the European Journal of
Finance. Martina Kelly
– Director of Funds at
IOB
Martina Kelly is Director of Funds at IOB
having joined the IoB in January 2020. Prior to that she was Head of Markets
Policy Division within the Central Bank of Ireland with responsibility for the
formulation of policy in relation to investment funds, investment firms, markets
and market infrastructure. Martina represented the Central Bank at the ESMA
Investment Management Standing Committee from its inception until she left the
Central Bank in 2019. She also participated in various European Council Working
Groups including those related to AIFMD and UCITS and was the Central Bank
representative at the Irish IFSC Funds Working Group. Martina is a
non-executive director of Northern Trust Fiduciary Services (Ireland)
Limited.Anthony Wolf
– Sia Partners
In 2017,
Anthony launched the first Sia Partners Bank Digital Benchmark with the goal of
developing their international expertise on digital maturity around the world
using tool testing, data scraping and data science. This expertise helped
several major banks to improve their digital offering including Customer
Journey, Open Banking, Payment services, Credits allowance, Beyond Banking but
also fraud detection. Sia Partners became a reference in digital strategy and
then Anthony also developed his expertise by improving digital services for SME,
for investment tools & Insurance services. More recently, he also
actively worked on the Sustainable transition for several mayor first
movers. On a group base, Anthony is leading the international Consumer
Banking Team.Contact us
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