Demonstrating “BREXIT Resilience” to shareholders and customers needs to be done now, not in 2 years time.
Companies exposed to risk from BREXIT are preparing to report this risk and provide evidence of resilience and business continuity arrangements to shareholders and customers.
Watch this programme to hear financial and business leaders from Ireland take you through how they have become one of the strongest centres for international businesses needing a base in the EU.
Programme Chair
John McGrane
The British Irish Chamber of Commerce
Keynote
Anne Heraty
President, Ibec
Mary Buckley
Executive Director, IDA Ireland
Roland O’Connell
Chairman, Savills, Ireland
Adam Donoghue
Partner, Maples and Calder, Dublin
Ian Cooper
Partner, Lockton Companies LLP
Aidan Scollard
Corporate Audit Partner and Head of the Brexit Committee, Grant Thornton
Stephen Mullin
Director, CPL
John McGrane
Director General, The British Irish Chamber of Commerce
Event Supporters
Impacts of BREXIT
“If you are a foreign institution hubbing into Europe from London, you really have no choice other than to think very quickly and carefully how to replicate the access to Europe that you would lose once the UK leaves the European Union.”
Douglas Flint CBE
Group Chairman, HSBC
10th January 2017
“I am talking about not just the clearing jobs themselves, which number in the few thousands, but the very large array of ancillary functions, whether syndications, trading, treasury management, middle office, back office, risk management or software”
Xavier Rolet KBE
Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange
January 2017
Event Speaker Profiles
Benefits of Watching
Understand why Ireland is already chosen by many major non EU companies to be their EU base and how it integrates well with London
Benchmark your business research and preparations on BREXIT and hear the case for Ireland
Hear what Ireland has to offer as a key location option for locating staff and functions within the EU
This programme brings together business and policy experts from London and Ireland to answer your questions and dilemmas around legal, financial and business regulation, including passporting, in financial services.
Successful international financial businesses need a pool of talent, professional supply and support services, reliable technology and flexible business and employment laws, whilst meeting the wishes and choices of key staff and their families.
Explore Ireland’s Partnership Potential
Hear from Ireland’s leading speakers on regulation and location options for BREXIT
Hear from international business leaders based in Ireland on the employment, business and taxations environment which work for them in Europe
Hear about possible transition arrangements, pass porting, equivalence and other permutations which might emerge from BREXIT negotiations
Look at necessary preparations for a Hard BREXIT, and demonstrating resilience and preparation to shareholders and customers