​What: Data Ecosystems and Strategies: Complexity, Investor Demands and Scalability

https://www.hfmeuropeansummit.com/page/1831540/about 

• Managing growing demands from investors around data transparency – what are investors looking for and where is this going?

• How much extra cost pressure is this putting on your ops team, and how can you combat these rising costs?
• Data around ESG – what are you being asked to present, and where are you getting your data?
• How do you free up your tech budget to ensure you’re enabling alpha creation? How can third party systems help (or hinder) this?

Speakers:

• Peter Oakes, Founder, FinTech UK and Fintech Ireland
• Ben Dear, CEO, Osmosis Investment Management
• Miles Courage, COO, Global Special Situations, JP Morgan Alternatives
• Jonathan White, Global Head of Funds Sales, Intertrust Group
• Eddie Steel, Partner, COO, Broad Reach Investment Management LLP

When: Thursday 16th September 2021.

Where: The Grove, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Cost: Ended

Registration: https://www.hfmeuropeansummit.com/page/1831544/speakers​ 

Fintech Ireland is speaking at ‘The 8th Operational Resilience and Cyber Security Summit' Global Virtual Summit on Tuesday 25th May 2021, thanks to City and Financial.

What: Outsourcing and pre-outsourcing: managing third- and fourth-party risk in the rapidly changing cyber threat landscape​
When: Tuesday 25th May 2021 at 16:15 (UK time).
Where: Online Event
Registration: Click Here

Join Peter Oakes, Founder, FinTech Ireland and Fintech UK; Ian Burgess, Director Cyber and Third-Party Risk, UK Finance; Ben Lindgreen, Head of Cyber Resilience, Pay.UK; and Andrew Jaquith, Chief Information Security Officer & General Manager, Cyber, QOMPLX, Inc..  We'll be discussing Outsourcing and pre-outsourcing: managing third- and fourth-party risk in the rapidly changing cyber threat landscape at City and Financial's Global Virtual Summit on Tuesday 25th May 2021 at 4:45pm and indeed for the whole excellent event!

Topics:

• The new current regulatory context: how does outsourcing fit in?
• Identifying third party supply chain risk
• Assessing the level of preparedness: defining the minimum baseline for resilience
• Dealing with ransomware accidents: Solarwind was expected but it still hit hard
• Security vs cost
• Governance principles for cloud providers

Moderator: Peter Oakes
Expert Panel Members: Ian Burgess, Ben Lindgreen and Andrew Jaquith

Fintech Ireland is speaking at Seamless Europe (Virtual) being held Wednesday 19th to Thursday 20th May 2021.  ​Claim your free virtual event pass - Click Here

What: Building innovative ecosystems, fostering fintech partnerships and promoting SME growth​
When: Thursday 20th May 2021 at 16:15 (UK time).
Where: Online Event
Cost: Virtual Event Pass is FREE
Registration: Click Here

Join Peter Oakes, Founder, FinTech Ireland; Jean-Louis Van Howe, Chairman, Fintech Belgium; Simon Schou, Chief Innovation Officer, Copenhagen Fintech; and Ritesh Jain. Co-Founder Infynit on Building Innovative Ecosystems, Fostering Fintech Partnerships and Promoting SME Growth​, Thursday 20th May 2021 at 16:15.  Claim your free virtual event pass - Click Here

What: The Future Exchange Landscape in 2021 - FOW's The European Derivatives Conference​
When: Wednesday 19th May 2021 at 10:30 (UK time). The FOW European Derivatives Conference runs 19th-20th May 2021.
Where: Online Event
Cost: See Registration below for details of paid and complimentary places
Registration: Click Here

Moderator: Peter Oakes, Founder, Fintech Ireland 

Speakers:

• Ade Cordell, President, Cboe NL
• Martin Polak, Chief Operating Officer, All Options
• Matthijs Pars, Director, APT 

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This informative Panel of Experts will discuss the following:

• Exploring the opportunities in 2021 for exchange groups.
• Where do we see further consolidation happening and what will it mean for the industry as a whole? Where will exchange innovation come from over the year ahead, and what will be the driver?
• Understanding what areas can exchanges provide a competitive edge in the post-Brexit landscape.
• As new exchanges come to market this year, what is the right balance between competition and too much fragmentation? How will incumbent exchanges react to these new competitive forces?
• Will the launch of Cboe’s Europe Derivatives help to grow Europe’s listed options market?
• Acquiring data seems to be a big driver behind market consolidation. Is this the advent of a new business 3.0 or are we seeing diversification in order to survive and smooth out risk?

​What: ACAMS Europe May 2021 - Crypto Assets: Following the Virtual Money​
When: Thursday 18th May 2021 at 14:40 (Belgium time) / 15:40 UK time). ACAMS Europe runs from 18th - 20th May 2021.
Where: Online Event
Cost: See Registration below
Registration: Click Here

Founder of Fintech Ireland and Fintech UK, Peter Oakes, will moderate a panel of anti-financial crime experts on crypto assets, including Danielle Jukes, FINTRAIL; Fabian K. Fuchs, BA, CAMS, Bitpanda and Stephane Leloup, Luxembourg Stock Exchange. 

Follow the money with case studies from crypto-organisations detailing how digital transactions are traced and financial crime prevented. Panelists will:

• Discuss how cryptocurrency has been used to conceal proceeds of crime and evade economic sanctions
• Assess how traceability of crypto transactions can be used to support anti money laundering efforts
• Challenge the control frameworks used to conduct due diligence on source of funds and wealth
• Explore common issues related to the implementation of FATF travel rule and transfer of customer data 

Roundtable: So, you want to be a Virtual Asset Service Provider? Regulation, Supervision and Money Laundering (and MiCA). Thursday 6th May 2021 at 15:00 Irish / UK time (10:00 US ET). This is our 6th free webinar in our current series of Fintech Ireland webinars! We look forward to welcoming you.

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What: Roundtable: So, you want to be a Virtual Asset Service Provider? Covers being cypto exchange, custodian wallet provider, offer or sell VAs. Join leading regulatory and VASP experts Peter Oakes, Founder of Fintech Ireland and CompliReg, Stephen Fletcher, Consultant at CompliReg, Samantha Sheen, Director Ex Ante Advisory Limited and Podcaster, Captivated Audience (former Stripe MLRO and Financial Crime Compliance Officer for EMEA) and several other subject matter experts for this event, including Mai Santamaria from the Department of Finance who will ‘pop-in’ for a short discussion about the proposed MiCA Regulation – an important regulation impacting VASPs.

* MiCA Regulation is the Proposal for the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation 2020/0265 (COD)

In-depth discussion on not only the regulation of, but the opportunities and challenges for, Ireland's virtual asset industry.

FinTech Ireland is partnering with CompliReg, Ex Ante Advisory and other subject matter experts to deliver a webinar on the new registration and AML requirements for Virtual Asset Service Providers which took effect in Ireland on Friday 23rd April.  And of course, this is against the backdrop of the new Proposal for a Regulation for an EU Market in Crypto Asset (MiCA) Regulation. CompliReg is currently working on several VASP applications.

Several firms may be able to avail of the 3-month transition period for VASP registration.  While they have a head start on other firms that must register before servicing clients, what obligations do transitioning firms have right now?  What is the registration process and what are the regulatory, legal and compliance obligations for VASPs.  Mai Santamaria from the Department of Finance will ‘pop-in’ for a short discussion about the MiCA Regulation – an important regulation impacting VASPs.

When: Thursday 6th May 2021. 15:00 Irish/UK time (10:00 am US Eastern Time).
Where: Online Event
Cost: Free
Registration: Register via the button on Eventbrite page. SEE "IMPORTANT NOTICE" BELOW ABOUT PRE-REQUISITES FOR YOUR REQUEST TO JOIN EVENT. (https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/roundtable-so-you-want-to-be-a-virtual-asset-service-provider-tickets-152471320825?aff=FINWebsite) 


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Regulator Information - Did You Know? Source - Central Bank of Ireland

1. The European Union’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive ('5AMLD') extended Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism ('AML/CFT') obligations to entities that provide certain services relating to virtual assets.
2. Ireland transposed 5AMLD into Irish law by way of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Act 2021 (‘2021 Act’) and the provisions of the 2021 Act that relate to VASPs commenced on 23 April 2021.
3. The 2021 Act extends the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Acts 2010 to 2021 (‘CJA 2010 to 2021’) to VASPs. For the purposes of the legislation, VASPs are firms that provide any of the following services relating to virtual assets:

 

• exchange between virtual assets and fiat currencies;
• exchange between one or more forms of virtual assets;
• transfer of virtual assets, that is to say, to conduct a transaction on behalf of another person that moves a virtual asset from one virtual asset address or account to another;
• custodian wallet provider; and
• participation in, and provision of, financial services related to an issuer’s offer or sale of a virtual asset or both.

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Important Notice: THIS EVENT IS FOR VASPS AND NEW BUSINESSES THAT WISH TO BECOME A VASP. You must request must come from an organisation email address. NB: requests from email domain such as gmail, yahoo, edu, ymail, hotmail, outlook etc may not be accepted for attendance. If this impacts you, please contact us at [email protected] to discuss and we will see what we can do. We reserve the right not to process any request not from a VASP/CASP or VASP/CASP start-up.

Did you miss our previous events and want the material?: Material from all our past events is located at https://fintechireland.com/events.html
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Other terms and conditions: Please note that we reserve the right to accept, modify and cancel the event, requests to attend and bookings at any time for any reason.

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All Fintech Ireland events fill quickly, so reserve your seat today!

Consultations: Fintech Ireland has uploaded information on its Consultations page which will be of interest to Central Bank of Ireland regulated fintech and financial services firm. See https://fintechireland.com/consultations.html.

Authorisations: Anyone looking at getting their fintech (payments firm and e-money firm) authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland can download Fintech Ireland's and CompliReg’s free handy authorisation guides and watch the video replay of our recent Getting Authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland Webinar at https://complireg.com/authorisations.html

Easier Access to Slides and Material from previous events: We have recently uploaded a new look and feel for our Fintech Ireland Events page that allows you to search for past events and materials, such as slides and videos.  

Slides and Material - 

1. Presentation 1 (and Slides on Consultation Paper 141) - Peter Oakes, Fintech Ireland / CompliReg
2. Presentation 2 - Derek F Butler, CEO & Founder, GRID Finance
3. 20210427-chris-burge-spark-crowdfunding-fintech-ireland.pdfPresentation 3 - Chris Burge, CEO & Co-Founder, Spark Crowdfunding
4. Presentation 4 - Colin Canny, Head of Originations, Flender

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• ​Central Bank of Ireland Consultation Paper on Crowdfunding in Ireland. 
• EU Crowdfunding Regulation

Check out SME Recovery, a project initiated by GRID Finance, representing Ireland’s small and medium business sector to ensure that the policy response to Covid-19 is designed to succeed for SMEs 

Roundtable: Project Crowdfunding – A new Regulated Industry for Ireland and Europe. Tuesday 27th April 2021 at 133:00 Irish / UK time (08:00 US ET)

We are pulling together a group for crowfunding platforms / crowdsourcing finance platforms - if you are one of these companies, whether equity, debt, donation or reward platform, and whether fiat, crypto or token based, get in contact with us at [email protected] for a wider discussion.


What: Roundtable: Project Crowdfunding – A new Regulated Industry for Ireland and Europe.

Join leading crowdfunding experts Derek F Butler, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GRID Finance; Chris Burge, Co-Founder & CEO, Spark Crowdfunding; Colin Canny, Head of Originations, Flender and regulatory and fintech expert Peter Oakes, Founder Fintech Ireland and CompliReg.
In-depth discussion on the opportunities and challenges for Ireland's crowdfunding community, stakeholders and in particular the end-users (investors and Irish companies) arising from:

• the current economic and business climate
• crowdfunding platforms embarking on re-booting Irish companies and the economy
• the new EU Regulation, the new Central Bank of Ireland Consultation Paper and
• ... and of course Covid-19 and associated business interruption.

Following a series of short presentations and panels by industry experts, we will hold a roundtable to discuss the development of a group response to the issued on Tuesday 13th April. This event is aimed at pulling together interested crowdfunding solution providers and other important industry stakeholders to, among other things, comment on the Central Bank of Ireland Consultation Paper on Crowdfunding in Ireland.  You can find the EU Regulation here.

Join Fintech Ireland, CompliReg and industry experts who will discuss this topic and then you will join the roundtable to discuss the response to the Central Bank of Ireland.

When: Tuesday 27th April 2021. 13:00 Irish/UK time (08:00 am US Eastern Time).
Where: Online Event
Cost: Free
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/roundtable-project-crowdfunding-a-new-regulated-industry-for-the-eu-tickets-150221124427?aff=FIWebsite

Reading:  (1) Central Bank Consultation Paper 141 and (2) Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 October 2020 on European crowdfunding service providers for business.

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Your details will also be recorded for contact about future Fintech Ireland, Fintech UK, USTechFin and CompliReg events and news. And as all use MailChimp, there will be an unsubscribe link in each email we send.

Other terms and conditions: Please note that we reserve the right to accept, modify and cancel bookings.
There will be photography and/or filming/recording at this event and your image may be captured by us and used for promotional purposes in print on our website. By registering for the event you are giving us your permission to use your image in this way. If you have any queries about this, however, please email [email protected]

​Consultations: Fintech Ireland has uploaded information on its Consultations page which will be of interest to Central Bank of Ireland regulated fintech and financial services firm. See https://fintechireland.com/consultations.html.
Authorisations: Anyone looking at getting their fintech (payments firm and e-money firm) authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland can download Fintech Ireland's and CompliReg’s free handy authorisation guides and watch the video replay of our recent Getting Authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland Webinar at https://complireg.com/authorisations.html 

Slides - Click Here
Video - Click Here

The registration platform for this event is now open to attend this joint event between Fintech Ireland, Choose New Jersey and New Jersey City University School of Business together with Tech United (New Jersey), Global Shares, Fenergo, Broadridge and SelectUSA (supported by Armstrong Teasdale). 

Join FinTech Ireland, Choose New Jersey and the New Jersey City University (NJCU) School of Business together with Tech United, Global Shares, Fenergo, Broadridge and SelectUSA (supported by Armstrong Teasdale) for a webinar on fintech trends and opportunities within Ireland and the U.S. State of New Jersey.

Hear from New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, business leaders and panel experts about economic synergies between New Jersey and Ireland and gain insight about the New Jersey’s innovation ecosystem and talent pool. Discover how New Jersey can provide Irish companies with the support, funding, and resources needed for successful investment in North America.

What: Fintech Bridge - Ireland and New Jersey
When: Wednesday 14th April 2021. 15:00-1630 Irish/UK time (10:00-1130 US Eastern Time).
Where: Online Event
Cost: Free
Registration: https://choosenj.zoom.us/webinar/register/1016173035244/WN_6KYZivL_RRm7oh8_Qs_g1w​

Here's the slides  

Getting Authorised and being Supervised by the Central Bank of Ireland:
Thursday 8th April 2021 at 15:00 Irish / UK time (10:00 US ET)

What: Fintech Ireland is hosting CompliReg, a leader provider of regulatory authorisation services and joint authors of our Authorisation Guides for Emoney and Payment Institutions, for a dive into the authorisation process and ongoing supervision for payment institutions, emoney and Virtual Asset Service Providers.

Join Peter Oakes (Founder, CompliReg, Fintech Ireland & Fintech UK) and Stephen Fletcher (Consultant, CompliReg) as they discuss the Central Bank of Ireland authorisation and supervisory regime for payment institutions, emoney institutions and virtual asset service providers as well as an update on trends in the Irish fintech industry.

We have arranged for several subject matter experts to join the call and share insights too.  Including:

• Samantha Sheen, Compliance Adviser Expert - Director, Ex Ante Advisory Limited (Former Stripe MLRO and Financial Crime Compliance Officer for EMEA);
• Stephen Hall, Immigration Law Expert - Head of Immigration Practice - UK, Armstrong Teasdale (dual qualified lawyer in the U.K. and Ireland); and
• Kate Solovieva, Foreign Direct Investment Expert - Vice President, Financial Services – Europe, Financial Services, IDA Ireland

When: Thursday 8th April 2021. 15:00 Irish/UK time (10:00 am US Eastern Time).
Where: Online Event
Cost: Free
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/getting-authorised-payments-institutions-e-money-institutions-vasps-tickets-148070130747?aff=FIWebsite

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Other terms and conditions: Please note that we reserve the right to accept, modify and cancel bookings.
There will be photography and/or filming/recording at this event and your image may be captured by us and used for promotional purposes in print on our website. By registering for the event you are giving us your permission to use your image in this way. If you have any queries about this, however, please email [email protected]

​Check out Fintech Ireland's and CompliReg’s handy authorisation guides for e-money institutions and payment institutions at https://fintechireland.com/fintech-authorisations.html
All Fintech Ireland hosted events fill quickly, so reserve your seat today!

Update: Thanks to the 280+ registered attendees for your interest in this event.  We really enjoyed hosting Dr. Michelle O’Donnell Keating (Senior Policy Specialist) and Steuart Alexander (Innovation and Sustainable Finance) of the Central Bank of Ireland on Thursday 25th March 2021.

Slides:  We have emailed the link to Fintech Ireland's slides in pdf format to all those who registered to attend and to those on our Fintech Ireland Subscriber email list.  If you want the Fintech Ireland slides in pdf document, join the Fintech Ireland email list and we will send you the link. Otherwise flip through the above slideshow.

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If you want a copy of the Central Bank of Ireland slides, you will need to contact the Innovation Hub at [email protected] to request a copy.

Fintech Ireland is delighted to announce that we are hosting, for the benefit of the local and international fintech community, the Central Bank of Ireland’s Innovation Hub on Thursday 25th March at 10:00am

Join Dr. Michelle O’Donnell Keating (Senior Policy Specialist) and Steuart Alexander (Innovation and Sustainable Finance) for a 2020 Update and learn about high-level trends from the Central Bank’s engagement with fintech & industry in 2020.

​What: Fintech Ireland is delighted to announce that we are hosting, for the benefit of the local and international fintech community, the Central Bank of Ireland’s Innovation Hub.

Join Dr. Michelle O’Donnell Keating (Senior Policy Specialist) and Steuart Alexander (Innovation and Sustainable Finance) of the Central Bank of Ireland's Innovation Hub for a 2020 Update and to learn about high-level trends from the Central Bank’s engagement with fintech & industry in 2020.
Peter Oakes, Founder of Fintech Ireland will host the event.

When: Thursday 25th March 2021. 10:00am to 11:00am (Irish/UK time) .

Where: Online Event

Cost: Free

Registration: Register via the button on this Eventbrite page. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/central-bank-of-ireland-innovation-hub-update-2020-tickets-146880115379?aff=FIWebsite ​


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Other terms and conditions: Please note that we reserve the right to accept, modify and cancel bookings.
There will be photography and/or filming/recording at this event and your image may be captured by us and used for promotional purposes in print on our website. By registering for the event you are giving us your permission to use your image in this way. If you have any queries about this, however, please email [email protected]

Check out Fintech Ireland's and CompliReg’s handy authorisation guides for e-money institutions and payment institutions at https://fintechireland.com/fintech-authorisations.html

All Fintech Ireland events fill quickly, so reserve your seat today!