Fintel, founded in 1987, is an international financial services and capital markets publishing company that publishes market-leading editorial in both print and electronic formats. It also has run international conferences, covering topics such as pan european pensions and asset pooling, structured finance, covered bonds, fund administration, corporate treasury, hedge fund administration, and the regulation and taxation of international financial centres.

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 the world's largest hedge fund administration centre. Its conferences have featured some of the most important figures in the global funds industry, and in financial services and hedge funds 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.

For details of its most recent conference, The 2008 Global Financial Services Centres Conference in June last, see: financedublin.com

Ken O'Brien, Managing Director, is the founder of Fintel Publications Ltd. He was formerly Economics Correspondent and Deputy Business Editor of the Irish Times, and a Special Correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, and of AP Dow Jones. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin University, in Economics & Political Science and holds a masters degree in economics from Waterloo University, Canada.
Dr Eugene McCarthy, chairman, Fintel Publications 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 director of St James's Place International, and Societe Generale Asset Management (Global Energy Develoment Capital Fund).