ABOUT FINTEL

Fintel, founded in 1987, is an international financial services and capital markets publishing company. It is a forum for the development, exchange and dissemination of original research on finance, financial services, and economics. It runs international finance conferences, covering topics such as financial services centres, pan European pensions and asset pooling, structured finance, covered bonds, fund administration, corporate treasury, fund administration and custody. Within the above brief it also provides a particular focus on the role of regulation and taxation in international financial services.

It ran The Inaugural 2008 Global Financial Services Centres Conference in June 2008, and will host, in May 2009, the Second Global Financial Services Centres Conference, details of which are at: financialcentresinternational.com

It is also the leading financial services publisher in Ireland, and has been central to the emergence of Dublin as a financial centre, including its emergence as one of the world's foremost fund administration and custody centres. Its conferences have featured some of the most important figures in financial services, taxation and regulation.

Among its publications are the leading Irish financial services journals, Finance Magazine (finance-magazine.com) and Finance Dublin (financedublin.com). It also publishes the Finance Dublin Yearbook of Ireland's Financial Services Centre.

Ken O'Brien, managing director, is the founder of Fintel Ltd. He holds a moderatorship from Trinity College, Dublin University, in Economics & Political Science and holds a masters degree in Economics from Waterloo University, Canada. He was the Special Correspondent for Ireland of the Wall Street Journal from 1982, and for the Wall Street Journal Europe, on its inception, until 1987. He also worked as Special Correspondent for Ireland of AP Dow Jones. He was formerly Economics Correspondent and Deputy Business Editor of the Irish Times.

Eugene McCarthy, chairman, Fintel Ltd. He holds a doctorate in Economic Science, awarded in 1977, from the London School of Economics, and is an economics graduate of Trinity College, Dublin University. He received the decoration of Officier de l'Ordre National du Merite, the highest honour a non French national can receive, from the President of France, Mr Jacques Chirac in 1999. He was formerly Deputy Director General of the Federation of Irish Employers, and is a director of St James's Place International, and Societe Generale Asset Management (Global Energy Development Capital Fund).