A message from your President, Eugene Kiernan FCSI
2021 has continued for many of us more or less how we left off in 2020 – still in a virtual world.
At CISI Ireland we have continued our series of virtual events with a wide range of topics from sustainable finance and wealth management through to financial market outlook and the pension landscape here in Ireland. We were delighted once again to engage with the Central Bank of Ireland exploring risk issues in what was a very well attended event.
One of the advantages of doing so much online was that at times we garnered a truly international audience for our topics.
We already have a number of quality and innovative events ready to go for the second half of the year, which we’re very excited about.
At this point in time it’s not clear whether we’ll able to meet in person in 2021. Circumstances have shown themselves to be highly changeable. Our paramount concern is the health and safety of our members and guests and we will heed national public health guidelines.
We have sought to engage with members as much as possible given that we can’t have the “cup of coffee” face to face. Thanks to all those who completed the recent survey – the CISI Ireland National Advisory Council (NAC) are currently reviewing the feedback – we want to be as relevant as possible to our members. And thanks to those who entered our recent “Ginvesting” competition – and congratulations to our two winners, James Stewart MCSI and Maria Delaney Chartered MCSI. A great response and no incorrect answers!!
As you know, our Country Representative Deirdre Heffernan moved on after nearly 15 years’ service to the CISI.
Deirdre has moved to a senior role in the educational sector. I’m sure most of you have had some interaction with Deirdre over the years. Deirdre has the somewhat unique combination of being both highly professional and highly personable. Her ability to display grace under pressure was tested many times as an audience assembled with our guest speaker probably still en-route from Dublin Airport.
In short, Deirdre was a tremendous asset for the CISI in Ireland. On behalf of our members, the Council and myself, I would like to thank her sincerely and wish her the best in the future.
We are pleased to announce that Deirdre Lawson will be joining us as the CISI Ireland representative in October - from one Dee to another! We look forward to welcoming her and to introducing her to you shortly.
Eugene
National Advisory Council
We are delighted to welcome Paula Downey FCSI, who joined the Ireland National Advisory Council this year.
Paula, a long time fellow of the Institute, is highly experienced and expert in the compliance area both in Ireland and in the UK and has already made a huge contribution to the workings of the NAC, which we are very grateful for.
Events
Our virtual events programme has continued for 2021 and Ireland have hosted five events to date. Once again the feedback has been excellent from both our own members and those globally who are joining us for these events.
Eoghain Murphy, NAC Member, chairs our ETFs event in March with Hector McNeill, HanETF and John Looby, KBI
We were particularly pleased to have Colm Kincaid, Director of Markets Supervision and his team who gave CISI members the first insight into the inaugural Securities Markets Risk Outlook Report, published earlier this year.
Sustainable Finance continues to be an important topic and we ran a very informative session with Barry O’Connor & Louise Dobbyn of Matheson and Sam Tripuraneni, Blackrock on the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation introduced in March.
CISI members can watch past events on CISI TV.
IOB Accreditation of CISI Professional Refresher modules
The Institute of Banking have accredited some of the CISI Professional Refresher e-learning modules for CPD for their designations. More details.
Sustainable Finance Learning Resources
