The Irish Government, Minister of State for Financial Services and Insurance Michael D’Arcy TD, Tuesday 30 January launched the Government’s IFS2020
Action Plan for 2018
Launched in 2015, the IFS2020 Strategy is a five-year Strategy for the development of Ireland’s international financial services
(IFS) sector. Download the IFS2020 Action Plan released 30 January 2018.
Fintech Ireland even gets a mention on pages 20, 21 and 40. Yet oddly nobody from IFS Ireland or the Minister's office approached us in advance of the publication despite being identified as a contributing stakeholder to Action points 28 and 30. We are, with appreciation, referenced at page 40 as "FinTech Ireland are particularly active in the start-up scene, advancing Ireland’s unique ability and leveraging its capacity to become and remain a global centre for FinTech." - thank you Minister and Department of Finance.
A copy of the Minister's statement on the publication of IFS2020, Action Pan 2018 is here.
The below photo is of Peter Oakes, Fintech Ireland, promoting the Action Plan a few days after its publication at a conference overseas.
Update: On 22 March 2018 the Irish Government announced a Discussion Paper on virtual currencies and blockchain technology. Click here for more.