FCI Conferences Gallery

The forthcoming Financial Centres Summit 2019, Dublin, the Financial Centres Summit 2018, and The Financial Centres Summit 2017 incorporated the seminal Global Financial Services Centres Conferences, held back in 2008, 2009, and in 2010. The Gallery on these pages show some of the past speakers. View Second gallery.

Paul Atkins (L), Commissioner, Securities & Exchanges Commission, United States of America, and Charlie McCreevy (R), Commissioner for the Internal Market, European Union, speaking at the inaugural FCI conference in June 2008. It was here that McCreevy announced the EU 's intention to regulate credit rating agencies for the first time, and Atkins responded with the (less intrusive) American approach that has been ultimately incorporated in the financial services reform legislation passed by the US Senate on May 20th 2010. Peter Wallison, Member, US Congress Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Keith Boyfield, Managing Director, Keith Boyfield Associates (L-R) Rod Roman, Head of EMEIA Banking Tax Team, Ernst & Young, Richard Hay, International Tax Principal & Head of the London Private Capital Group, Stikeman Elliott, Anne Craine, Treasury Minister, Isle of Man Government and Peter O'Dwyer, Director, Hainault Capital (L-R) Kenneth Farugia, Chairman Finance Malta, Julie Patterson, Director Authorised Funds & Tax, Investment Management Association, UK, Edouard de Lencquesaing, Special Advisor Paris Europlace, the Paris Financial Markets Association
Robert Mathavious, Managing Director/CEO, BVI Financial Services Commission and Richard Hay, International Tax Principal & Head of the London Private Capital Group, Stikeman Elliott John Ingamells, Director, TheCityUK, the UK's newly established integrated promotional body for London and all regional UK financial services centres Peter De Proft, Director General, EFAMA Stefan Gavell, Executive Vice President and Head of Regulatory and Industry Affairs, State Street
Daniel J Mitchell, Senior Fellow, The Cato Institute Marcus Killick, Chief Executive, Financial Services Commission, Gibraltar and Richard Hay, International Tax Principal & Head of the London Private Capital Group, Stikeman Elliott Angela Maddaloni, Senior Economist, European Central Bank Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen, David Kinloch, CEO, Labuan IBFC and Jean-Paul Cumberbatch Regional Business Development Advisor Invest Barbados
Keletsositse Olebile, Strategy & Research Executive, Botswana International Financial Services Centre John Cullinane, Partner, Deloitte, London, and former President of The Chartered Institute of Taxation, 2006-2007. Boyd Winton (R), Head of Financial Services, Bahrain Economic Development Board (L-R) Kenneth Farrugia, Chairman Malta Finance, David Kinloch, CEO Labuan IBFC, Michael Ryan, Deputy Chief Executive, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (L-R)Silvia Fernandez Mercote, Investment Promotion Executive, Invest Hong Kong, Bethan Hampson-Jones, Policy & Research Manager, Financial Services Commission, Gibraltar, Sarah O'Sullivan, Senior Associate, Mason Hayes & Curran
Marcus Killick, Chief Executive, Financial Services Commission, Gibraltar and Richard Hay, International Tax Principal & Head of the London Private Capital Group, Stikeman Elliott Jessica Tan, Partner, Financial Services Practice, McKinsey, Singapore Matthew Elderfield, Head of Financial Supervision, Central Bank of Ireland, speaking to his former Atlantic/Carribbean colleague Robert Mathavious, CEO of the regulatory authority of British Virgin Islands Jeffrey Owens, Head of The Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD, spoke at the 2008 and 2009 conferences. Owens authored the OECD's campaign to bring offshore 'tax havens' within the orbit of global tax compliance in the late 1990s.
One of the six panels at the FCI Conference on April 27-28th 2010: Michael Ryan, Deputy Chief Executive, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority, Boyd Winton, Head of Financial Services, Bahrain Economic Development Board, Jessica Tan, Partner, McKinsey and David Kinloch, CEO, Labuan IBFC (L-R) Janet Ecker, President, Toronto Financial Services Alliance & Former Ontario Finance Minister; Dan Gallagher, Co-Acting Director in Division of Trading and Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission and Pat Butler, Director, McKinsey & Company. (L-R) Janet Ecker, President, Toronto Financial Services Alliance & Former Ontario Finance Minister and Dan Gallagher, Co-Acting Director in Division of Trading and Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission David Green , Adviser on International Affairs, Financial Reporting Council
Rym Ayadi, Head Financial Institutions & Prudential Policy Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies Shawna Lake, Chief Executive Officer, St. Kitts Investment Promotion Agency. Mrs Lake and speakers from other jurisdictions participated in a panel debate at the conference with Jeffrey Owens Head of the OECD Centre on Tax Administration , the author of the OECD 'Black', 'Grey' and 'White' Lists, endorsed by the G20 on tax havens. See more here. (L-R) Akkie Lansberg, Managing Director, Holland Financial Centre; Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen; Lidia Adamska, Member of Management Board, Warsaw Stock Exchange. Anthony Belchambers, Chief Executive, Futures and Options Association (FOA)
Nicholas Falck Lund, Head, Copenhagen Finance IT Region Martin Crawford, Chief Executive Officer, Labuan IBFC Pat Butler, Director, McKinsey & Company, speaking in June 2009. (See: this) Malcolm Couch, Assessor of Income Tax, Isle of Man Government
Edouard de Lencquesaing, Special Advisor, Paris EUROPLACE: The Paris Financial Markets Organization speaking at the conference. Also in photo (L-R) Jenny Young, Director, Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland; and Andrew Rigby, Partner, Brodies LLP, speaking on Scotland's financial centres. Jane Dellar, Managing Director, Bahrain Financial Services Michael Gaffney, global co-head of taxation, Merrill Lynch and Sandra Boss, partner, McKinsey & Co, lead partner on the McKinsey-authored Mayor Michael Bloomberg-Senator Charles Schumer report on New York's future as a financial centre (2007) Hubertus Vaeth, Executive Director, Frankfurt Main FInance
Irish Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan spoke at the inaugural Fintel Global Financial Services Centres Conference in June 2008. Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner of Internal Markets, European Union speaking at the inaugural conference in 2008. Commissioner McCreevy announced the EU Commission's intention to regulate credit rating agencies in his speech, on June 16th 2008. See reports here Alan Boshwaen, Chief Executive Officer, Botswana International Financial Services Centre The Madrid/Bahrain/Jersey nexus: Financial Centres leaders, Enrique Prados Del Amo, President, AsocaciĆ³n de Mercados Financieros, Madrid, Jane Dellar, Managing Director, Bahrain Financial Services, Geoff Cook, Chief Executive, Jersey Finance
   
Prof Michael Mainelli, author and publisher of the Global financial centres Index. Professor Mainelli has provided an analysis and background to the compilation of the indexes at the 2008 and 2009 conferences. The Index is in its third year, with the latest edition published on September 20th 2009 ( See GFSC 6 here and see GFSC 5 (March 2009) here) Shashank Srivastava, Director of Strategy & Planning, Qatar Financial Centre Authority