Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th April 2005 Dublin Castle Conference 2005

The coming opportunities for financial services companies as new global markets emerge

Speakers include: , Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy, EU Commissioner for the Internal Market Dr. Daniel Mitchell, McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy, the Heritage Foundation, Washington Gregory Boyko, Head of International Operations, Hartford Life Alberto LaRocca, CEO, Pioneer Alternative Investments Dr Wolfgang Mansfeld, President of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), (formerly FEFSI) Ben Conte, CEO, Susquehanna Pat Wall, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pat Farrell, CEO, Irish Bankers Federation Peter Lynch, CFO, eircom Derek Moriarty & Paul Reck, principal authors of the Deloitte Report

Plus two half day seminars: Introduction to Hedge Fund Management and Administration & Introduction to Credit Derivatives

Sponsored by: PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

Dear Colleague, The future of Dublin (and Ireland) as a financial services centre is back on the agenda in a big way, and the programme of the sixth annual FINANCE DUBLIN Conference reflects this. As always, the conference takes its cue from FINANCE DUBLIN’s own editorial agenda - which is first and foremost to provide financial services companies with practical ideas for the Tuesday 5th - Wednesday 6th April 2005 development of their businesses. Thus, the various Dublin Castle Conference Centre discussions at the conference will have the emphasis of providing delegates with a background for informed decision making, and potential opportunities for business development. The conference will be unique in the following respects: The topics on the Deloitte Report, and the European and global agendas, and the The conference is the only event to provide an IFSC-wide perspective on all issues discussions on regulation, featuring both the of common concern in banking, funds, insurance, asset finance and treasury industry and regulator/Government perspectives It will address the currently crucial issue of the new Irish regime of financial thus will be focussed towards providing a regulation with insights from Irish, European and world experts comprehensive picture of the business environment as it stands in the Spring of 2005. There will be unparalleled comprehensive updates of the major business So will the briefing sessions on tax and sectors. environment issues including taxation, and priorities for financial services legislation As the speaker list opposite will show, the conference will assemble virtually all of the key Case studies will be presented of IFS companies who have successfully added interests in the IFS industry. value to their operations The conference too will feature a series of case The speaker panel includes many senior executives from leading IFS parent studies, including that of new start up Hartford companies, and regulatory bodies and policy making units Life, who will open their European headquarters It will be a forum for industry representatives to debate and recommend in Dublin on April 5th, day one of the conference, solutions on issues raised and ‘jewel in the crown’ projects Susquehanna All sectors of the IFS will attend the conference making it an excellent opportunity and Pioneer Alternative Investments. for networking Also, the conference will begin with two seminars - Hedge Fund Management and Administration, and Credit Derivatives, which offer both an introduction to the subjects and an advanced The benefits for you: treatment of the cutting edge issues. Gain in-depth insight on all the strategic issues facing Ireland’s IFS sector I look forward to seeing you on April 5th and 6th. Learn from the experiences of world class financial services organisations in adding value to their core operations in financial centres such as Ireland Yours sincerely Make contacts and interact with famous names in world financial services in this information intensive environment Choose from two innovative seminar sessions examining the key topics of Hedge Fund Management & Administration and Credit Derivatives

Ken O’Brien, Editor. This conference is of particular importance to:

Managing Directors Central Bank & Heads of Centralised and Chief Operations Regulatory Executives Financial Processing Officers Insurance and ART Operations Business Development Product Designers Finance Shared Services Managers Funds Product Centres Executives Regulatory & Development strategists Software Suppliers PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst & Young Compliance Officers in the Funds Industry Treasury Centre Department of Finance, Dillon Eustace, eircom, Personnel, Education & Cash and Treasury Managers EU Commission, European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), Hansard Training Executives Managers IT and Information Europe, Hartford Life Ltd, Inter Association Network Taxation Strategists & Legal Advisers - Strategists (IAN), IDA Ireland, Irish Financial Services Advisers Financial and Corporate Strategic Research Regulatory Authority (IFSRA), Irish Bankers Government Services Managers Federation (IBF), Nexgen, Pioneer Alternative Investments, State Street Bank Ireland, Representatives - Taxation Advisers Group Heads of Susquehanna, ’s Clearing House Groups, Financial Services European Legal Counsel Strategy The Heritage Foundation, Irish Stock Exchange, Promotion Directors of Risk Recruitment Consultants Euroclear, Depfa Bank, KYCOS, ECON, BearingPoint, Financial Services Ireland, Daiwa, A&L Chief Financial Officers Management Goodbody and Matheson Ormsby Prentice.

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Day One - Tuesday 5th April 2005 PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com/ie) is the leading The importance of financial services to Ireland professional services organisation in Ireland and worldwide Opening address by Brian Cowen, Minister for Finance employing over 120,000 people in over 144 countries. In Ireland PricewaterhouseCoopers employs over 1,600 people in seven locations: Dublin, Financial regulation in Europe in the context of the Lisbon Agenda Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Waterford and Wexford. Our financial services team, comprising 20 Partners and over 500 professionals - The dangers and pitfalls of over-regulating in Dublin, is a leading provider of cross-border financial services to international clients in banking, insurance and investment management. - Ireland’s Financial Services Business in a more open Europe Connecting our thinking, experience and solutions we build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders. Our industry focused services Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner for the Internal Market, to the financial sector include: assurance, advisory, tax and legal (our legal services are provided through our correspondent law firm, Landwell Solicitors), corporate governance, regulatory and compliance, finance raising, transaction International tax competition, Ireland’s position, and the EU financial services industry and performance improvement services, risk and security, executive resourcing - The importance of protecting and preserving the right to engage in tax competition and business strategy. The Irish Bankers Federation (IBF) is the - Tax competition as a liberalising force in the global economy: Ireland in context leading representative body for the banking and financial services sector in Ireland. Membership Dr Daniel Mitchell, McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Heritage Foundation comprises banks and financial services institutions, domestic and international - with Europe, Ireland, the EU Single Market and Ireland’s opportunities in funds and other the latter grouped under the IBF-affiliated Federation of International Banks in Ireland. financial services IBF’s purpose is to foster the development of a stable, dynamic and innovative banking and financial services industry that contributes to the economic and - Investment management - a progressive element of the Single Market for financial services social well-being of the country. - Do we need a further push towards market integration? eircom is Ireland’s leading provider of telecommunications, providing a comprehensive Dr Wolfgang Mansfield, Chairman, EFAMA, and member, Executive Board of Union Investment a range of advanced voice, data and internet services. The company, which was formerly known as Risk-based approach to anti-money laundering Telecom Eireann, was established in 1984 when it became a semi-state company. In July 1999, the John C. Bourbon, CEO of Regulatory Affairs, KYCOS and former Managing Director of the company was listed on the Irish, London and New York stock exchanges. Cayman Islands Monetary Authority In May 2001, eircom completed the demerger of its mobile telecommunications business, Eircell, which was then purchased by Vodafone. In November 2001 eircom plc was purchased by Valentia Telecommunications Day Two - Wednesday 6th April 2005 Ltd and subsequently delisted from the Stock Exchange in December 2001. eircom returned to the Dublin and London Stock Exchanges on 19 March 2004. The international financial services sector in Ireland – the future Deloitte, one of Ireland’s leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, consulting and - Overview of the study on the future of the international financial services sector in Ireland financial advisory services through nearly 800 people in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. Known as Derek Moriarty & Paul Reck, Partners, Deloitte employer of choice for its innovative human resources programmes, the firm is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel. In Ireland, our Deloitte financial services practice offer a wide array of Overviews: Opportunities in International Banking, Funds, and Insurance services to clients in the banking and securities, investment management and insurance sectors. In addition to audit and taxation services we have experts in By the chairmen of the Department of the Taoiseach’s Clearing House Group on Banking & accounting and reporting, actuarial services, asset securitisation, regulatory Treasury (Walter Brazil, AIBIFS), Funds (David Dillon, Dillon Eustace), and Insurance (John compliance and governance, strategic risk and capital management, investment performance measurement, financial institution restructuring and management Larkin, William Fry). consulting. Our clients operate both in the domestic Irish market and in the dynamic international financial services industry. We are part of Deloitte’s global financial services industries practice, which operates through dedicated financial Panel discussion: the taxation opportunities for the IFS industry services professionals in over 40 countries, including all major global centres. Pat Wall, Panel Chairman, Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Paul McGowan, Tax Partner, Euroclear is the world’s largest provider of domestic and cross-border securities settlement KPMG; Paul Reck, International Tax Partner, Deloitte; PJ Henehan, Tax Partner, Ernst & Young and related services for bond, equity and fund transactions. Pan-European pensions roadmap Market owned and market governed, the Euroclear group comprises the Brussels-based - Pan-European pensions directive; Asset pooling and administration Euroclear Bank, as well as CRESTCo, Euroclear France and Euroclear Nederland, the central securities depositories of Pat Wall, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and chairman, Pan-European Pensions Task Force of Ireland/UK, France and the Netherlands respectively. CIK, the CSD of Belgium, is expected to join the group later in 2005. Euroclear Bank is rated AA+ by the Taoiseach’s IFSC Clearing House Group Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. Irish securities transactions can be settled through two of the entities in the Developing regulation to make the best of the opportunities Euroclear group: Euroclear Bank (for government bonds) and CRESTCo (for equities and corporate bonds). - The future of financial regulation: principles or rules issues for the Irish financial services sector For investment funds, FundSettle is Europe’s only fully integrated platform for the straight-through processing of cross-border transactions. Offering order- - EU legislative developments, the wider international context and impact routing, settlement and custody, Euroclear-operated FundSettle provides a single access point for fund distributors to over 23,000 offshore and domestic Dr Liam O’Reilly, Chief Executive, Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (IFSRA) funds worldwide, including more than 2,800 Dublin-domiciled funds. The total value of transactions settled by Euroclear is in excess of €300 trillion per annum, while assets held in custody for clients are currently valued at more than €13 trillion. Conference chairpersons For further information on how Euroclear can meet your settlement needs, Pat Farrell, Chief Executive of the Irish Bankers Federation please visit our website at www.euroclear.com Dermot Cahillane, Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee, DEPFA Bank plc Mary Fulton, Partner in charge of Financial Services Audit Group, Deloitte

Lunch Sponsor: Ernst & Young, a global leader in professional services, delivers a broad array of solutions to help companies achieve growth, improve financial Case Studies of IFS companies performance and manage risk anywhere in the world. Our 110,000 people in more than 140 countries worldwide offer traditional audit Case Study 1: Hartford Life Ltd, which will be the US company’s European head office. The Hartford, and tax services, as well as customised services in corporate finance, transactions, launching in Dublin in April, will sell American style life insurance products into Europe, particularly in the UK, online security, risk management, and other critical business performance issues. where it hopes to capture a significant share of the market. The Irish practice of Ernst & Young is one of the leading firms of auditors and business advisors in Ireland with a first class range of clients who operate in all Gregory Boyko, Head of International Operations, Hartford Life Ltd sectors of the economy. The firm employs over 800 people between our principal office in Dublin and our regional offices in Cork, Waterford, Limerick and Galway. Case Study 2: Susquehanna International Group, which employs over 70 people in Dublin. Formed in 1987, Our Dublin Financial Services Practice Susquehanna is a leading market making firm active in five continents. It recently joined the Irish Stock The continuing growth of the Dublin Financial Services Practice has been an important goal for Ernst & Young. We have invested heavily and developed highly Exchange and is active in launching an Exchange Traded Fund based on the ISEQ. valued expertise in a number of service lines and have achieved impressive growth. Ben Conte, CEO, Susquehanna Ireland Our success to date can be measured by our business leadership in Insurance, Alternative Investments, Actuarial, Pension and Capital Tax Planning and Risk Case Study 3: Pioneer Alternative Investments (PAI). With over US$3.8bn of assets under management PAI is Advisory Services. Our Irish financial services group now includes 12 partners and over 250 professional staff. one of the leading companies in the alternative investments arena and employs over 300 in Dublin. Alberto LaRocca, CEO, Pioneer Alternative Investments

For information on marketing opportunities at the conference please email or call Valerie Hannigan, [email protected], tel. 353 1 293 0566 TUESDAY - 5TH APRIL 2005

TWO INTRODUCTORY HALF DAY (MORNING) SEMINARS: APRIL 5TH 2005

INTRODUCTION TO HEDGE FUND MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION INTRODUCTION TO CREDIT DERIVATIVES

8.00 Registration and breakfast 8.00 Registration and breakfast 9.00 Introduction of Chairman 9.00 ‘Credit Derivatives 100’ - Introductory overview by Chairman Peter O’Dwyer, Editor, Fintel Guide to Global Hedge Fund Services (forthcoming) Frank Monks, CEO, Nexgen Financial Solutions 9.00 ‘Hedge Funds 101’ – Overview, History, Definitions, Future 9.10 ‘Credit Derivatives 101’ - Credit Derivatives and their growth: Types and their motivations, Size & growth of the market History; Definition; Their role in investment markets; Typical fee structure; The ECB and rating agencies surveys; Players in the market, regulatory Their development in the 1990s, and early 2000s; Major case studies; Their concerns about distribution of credit risk recent performance and prospects Patrick Neary, Prudential Director of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory David Sung, Senior Partner US Hedge Fund Practice, Ernst & Young Authority (IFSRA) 9.45 ‘Hedge Funds 102’ – Investment models and the major (and emerging) 10.00 ‘Credit Derivatives 102’ - Credit Default Swaps - building block for most strategies credit derivative structures Investment models and strategies; Risk management models in hedge fund What is a CDS? The evolution of ISDA documentation; Key terms - issuer investment; Overview of the strategies; Definition of strategies; The search for and bond identification; The role of REDS; Credit event triggers & variations alpha; Hedge Funds in portfolios; Funds of Hedge Funds; Pension regulation Nollaig Murphy, Partner, A&L Goodbody Guy Saintfiet, Head of Alternative Investments, KBC Asset Management 10.45 COFFEE 10.30 COFFEE 11.00 ‘Credit Derivatives 103’ - Portfolio credit derivatives 10.50 ‘Hedge Funds 103’ – Hedge funds regulation and governance, domiciles, Portfolio credit derivatives: Cash CDOs - legal structures/multiple investors - markets, and administration centres a supplier driven product; Investor experience United States, Europe and other major countries; The domiciles; The Richard Gambel, Managing Director, European Structured Finance, Fitch administration centres; Global approaches to hedge fund regulation Ratings Michael Jackson, Partner, Matheson Ormsby Prentice 11.45 ‘Credit Derivatives 104’ - Equity default swaps and CDO of EDS 11.35 ‘Hedge Funds 104’ – Hedge fund administration, custody and prime Key terms and documentation; Dividend & distribution issues; Toe in the brokerage, roles and processes water issues for investors; Models and model risk issues for dealers The roles of the prime broker; The role of the administrator; The role of the Frank Monks, CEO, Nexgen custodian; The due diligence process 12.15 ‘Credit Derivatives 105’ - Accounting and regulatory issues Gerald Brady, Consultant (former Regional Managing Director of Bank of IFRS & fair value issues - FAS 133 and IAS 39, IFSRA guidance notice; Bermuda in Europe and Head of Bank of Bermuda Ireland) Banking Book and Trading Book; Basel II treatments 12.20 Conclusion: Q & A session with all speakers Philip Shinn, Chartered Accountant, Nexgen, and formerly Credit Suisse, London 12.45 LUNCH 12.45 LUNCH

MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY ONE

12.00 Registration Why protecting and preserving What is on ECON’S agenda - Do we need a further push Followed by light lunch the right to engage in tax including the proposal to towards market integration? competition should be a key goal regulate hedge funds? The position of the industry 13.30 Introduction from the Chair for economic policymakers Gay Mitchell, member, European Dr Wolfgang Mansfield, Chairman, Pat Farrell, Chief Executive, Irish Tax competition as a liberalising Parliament European Fund and Asset Bankers Federation force in the global economy: 15.55 Case study: The Hartford’s Irish Management Association (EFAMA), 13.35 The importance of financial Ireland in context hub for its European operations and member, Executive Board of services to Ireland Dr Daniel Mitchell, McKenna Facing the global retirement crises Union Investment Opening address by Brian Cowen, Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Hartford Life International has 16.35 Harmonisation of Europe’s Minister for Finance The Heritage Foundation, established the hub for its securities markets - the 14.00 Financial regulation in Europe in Washington, USA European operations in Ireland challenges for Ireland the context of the Lisbon Agenda 14.55 The EU’s Financial Services With its common currency and Clearing and settlement - market The role of regulation in Action Plan (FSAP) tax structure, the Ireland office participants take the lead deepening capital markets, The FSAP debate, the internal will in time serve as the base for The changing exchange lowering costs, and widening market, and banking in Ireland potential future expansion into landscape choice Post-FSAP debate other European Union countries Ireland’s positioning The dangers and pitfalls of over- The success of the FSAP and the However, Hartford Life Brian Healy, Director of Trading, regulating internal market International is focused on The Irish Stock Exchange Ireland’s financial services A view of the Lamfalussy process achieving critical mass in the UK 16.55 The risk based approach to anti business in a more open Europe and its impact on legislative and before considering future money laundering - its strengths Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner regulatory structures European expansion targets and weaknesses for the Internal Market, European Effect on Ireland as a financial The UK market represents 12 per What are the main changes Commission services centre cent of the world’s life insurance delivered in the 3rd EU Directive? 14.30 International tax competition, Enda Twomey, Deputy Chief and pension markets How does the Republic stand Ireland’s position, and the EU Executive, Irish Bankers Federation Gregory Boyko, Head of against other current financial services industry 15.15 COFFEE International Operations, Hartford international standards? Life Is a prescriptive approach likely The benefits of tax competition, 15.35 The international and EU agenda which exists when people can with regard to tax and financial 16.15 Europe, Ireland, the EU Single to reduce corporate compliance reduce tax burdens by shifting Market and Ireland’s risk? services regulation capital and/or labor from high- Ireland has benefited from tax opportunities in funds and other How can technology be tax jurisdictions to low-tax financial services harnessed to help? and regulatory competition, how jurisdictions can this be promoted? Investment management - a Is the European playing field Governments’ opposition to tax Promoting the IFSC case in progressive element of the Single level? competition and how they seek to Europe – the City has Teresa Market for financial services John Bourbon, CEO of Regulatory reduce or eliminate competition Villiers, now it has two Irish A key role for efficient capital Affairs, KYCOS, and former Why such opposition is MEPs on the European markets Managing Director of the Cayman fundamentally inconsistent with Parliament’s Monetary Affairs Towards an integrated retail Islands Monetary Authority good tax policy Committee market? 17.15 RECEPTION

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MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY TWO

08.00 Registration 10.40 COFFEE 14.25 Pan-European pensions roadmap 16.05 Panel Discussion: What the EU demographic timebomb – financial services industry wants 09.00 Opening remarks from the Chair 11.15 Panel discussion: developing the pensions underfunding from regulators and how can Dermot Cahillane, Managing financial services industry EU Commission initiatives Ireland’s competitive advantage Director, Depfa Bank, and member Moderator: William Slattery, Pan-European pensions directive as an innovative and responsive of the Council of the Federation of Managing Director, State Street Asset pooling & administration regulatory jurisdiction be maintained? International Banks in Ireland International and Chairman of Pat Wall, Partner, Financial Services Ireland Speaker: Rachel Panagiodis, 09.10 The international financial PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Deirdre Lyons, Head of Managing Director, Hansard services sector in Ireland – the chairman, Pan-European Pensions International Financial Services, Europe Limited future Task Force of the Taoiseach’s IFSC IDA Ireland Overview of the study performed Clearing House Group Consolidation of the Irish Derek Moriarty, Consulting financial services legislation - an for the IDA on the future of the 14.45 Case study: Susquehanna international financial services Partner, Deloitte international life company’s International Group (SIG) (Ireland) perspective; An opportunity to sector in Ireland Paul Reck, Tax Partner, Deloitte Susquehanna International The global trends which are build on; The need for change; David Dillon, Senior Manager, Group - Ireland as a gateway to A structure for the future; likely to have a significant Dillon Eustace Europe impact on Ireland as a location Competitive issues and the John Larkin, Partner, William Fry History of Susquehanna international audiences; Don’t for international financial International Group Walter Brazil, Managing Director, forget the detail. services The firm’s philosophy and AIB International Financial Services Potential opportunities and culture Speaker: James L Deeny, former threats arising from the trends Dermot Cahillane, Managing Factors that were important in Country Manager, HSBC and past Key sources of competitive Director, DEPFA Bank plc deciding to locate in Ireland President of FIBI advantage to exploit the Commencement of operations in 11.45 Panel discussion: the taxation The new Financial Services opportunities and recommended Ireland Consultative Industry Panel actions for the industry opportunities facing the IFS industry Growth of the business Responsibilities of the Industry Joint presentation by Derek Current business activities Panel defined by legislation; The holding company regime Moriarty & Paul Reck, Partners, Capital duty and VAT The future for Susquehanna Strengthens the financial Deloitte European Court of Justice International Group and Ireland services representative structure; as a financial centre How different to the Practitioner 9.40 Globalisation of mutual funds - developments Other topics suggested by Ben Conte, Managing Director, Panel in the UK?; Close implications for Ireland relationship with IFSRA; Work Increased competition from delegates Susquehanna International Group (SIG) (Ireland) programme for 2005 other jurisdictions Pat Wall, Panel Chairman, Tax Speaker: Aileen O’Donoghue, Where do the opportunities lie? Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers 15.05 -zone electronic bond and Chair IFSRA Industry Panel Global regulation Paul McGowan, Tax Partner, KPMG repo markets - an opportunity for Constraints International Financial Services Paul Reck, International Tax Ireland Working Group David Dillon, Chairman, Trends in European primary and Partner, Deloitte Panelists: Dr. Liam O’Reilly, Chief Department of the Taoiseach’s secondary fixed income markets PJ Henehan, Tax Partner, Executive, Irish Financial Services Clearing House Group for Funds, Opportunities in electronic bond Regulatory Authority; Damian and Partner, Dillon Eustace Ernst & Young and repo trading and impact on Neylin, Partner, PwC and Chairman 12.30 LUNCH Irish bond market of the Inter-Association Network; 10.00 An overview of some new Future development and outlook opportunities for the insurance Enda Twomey, Deputy Chief Frank Gast, Manager, BearingPoint Executive, Irish Bankers’ Federation; sector Sponsored by: EU Reinsurance Directive Financial Services, Germany Chair: Mary Fulton, Partner, Deloitte Developments in insurance 15.25 COFFEE mediation Opportunities arising out of the 15.45 Developing regulation to make Deloitte Report the best of the opportunities 17:00 DRINKS RECEPTION 13.40 After dinner speech: financial John Larkin, Chairman, services innovation - a corporate The future of financial Department of the Taoiseach’s perspective regulation: principles or rules Clearing House Group on issues for the Irish financial Peter E Lynch, Chief Financial Insurance, and Partner, William Fry services sector Officer, eircom EU legislative developments, the 10.20 The challenges of success – wider international context and Ireland’s international banking 14.00 Opening remarks from the chair the potential impact on Irish sector financial services Mary Fulton, Partner, Deloitte Finance Dublin is ‘the bible of the IFSC’, the How we build on what we have The impact of EU legislative monthly periodical covering the companies achieved 14.05 Case study: Pioneer Alternative development on international and financial services sectors making up what The need to reapply and re-tool Investments (PAI) players in particular is one of the world’s most exciting and vibrant skills and competencies Pioneer Alternative Investments Within this context, the approach financial centres. The first issue appeared in January 1996, to enable the provision of more Providing and attracting the new Dublin - a platform for success to supervision and regulation by skills to compete with markets Growth of non-traditional funds specialised and detailed articles on the the Financial Regulator evolution of the IFSC formerly pioneered in such as London and Frankfurt business in Dublin Dr. Liam O’Reilly, Chief Executive, Finance, its ‘sister’ publication which, in 1987, Competitiveness; Ireland is no Overview of the Pioneer Irish Financial Services Regulatory published the first printed material outlining longer low cost so as we go up Alternative Investments business Authority (IFSRA) the financial incentives developed by the Irish the value chain we have to deliver Success of Dublin based Government in conjunction with the EU for on value operation the development of the Dublin IFSC. For more information on Finance and Finance Dublin Walter Brazil, Chairman, Alberto La Rocca, CEO, Pioneer see www.finance-magazine.com and Department of the Taoiseach’s Alternative Investments www.financedublin.com Clearing House Group on Banking and Treasury and Managing Director of AIB International Financial Services

For the latest conference information and to register online go to: www.financedublin.com/conference President and Chief Financial Officer at a major life Pat Farrell Services Group comprising of professionals from a insurance company. He began his career as a senior tax Pat took up the role of Chief number of disciplines such as tax, structured finance, accountant at Ernst & Young. Executive of the Irish Bankers audit and actuarial services. Gregory is a graduate of the University of Federation (IBF) in January 2004. IBF PJ regularly lectures on taxation for various Connecticut and the University of Connecticut is the leading representative body for professional organisations in Ireland and abroad. He Conference Speakers School of Law. He also holds a number of banking and financial services with a has also produced numerous articles and booklets for Conference Speakers professional degrees, including the Certified Public membership of over 60 banks which Ernst & Young and its clients. He is a member of the Full details on all biographies at financedublin.com Accountant, Chartered Life Underwriter, and includes all of the retail banks and mortgage lenders Taoiseach’s Insurance Committee that advises Chartered Financial Consultant designations. and the leading international banks based in the IFSC. Government on the development of Ireland as an Walter Brazil In that capacity, Pat sits on the Executive Committee insurance domicile of choice. PJ is a Fellow of the Irish Walter graduated with a Bachelor of Dermot Cahillane of the European Banking Federation which represents Taxation Institute and a Fellow of the Chartered the interests of commercial banks across Europe. Commerce Degree from University Dermot Cahillane joined Depfa Bank Association of Certified Accountants. College Dublin in 1980 and entered Europe plc in 1993 as member of the In Pat’s previous career he held a series of senior Areas of Expertise: All aspects of Corporate Tax; Deloitte Haskins and Sells as a trainee Board of Directors and was management positions in both the public and private Financial Services; Insurance; Banking, Securitisation, accountant. Walter qualified in 1983 appointed Managing Director in sector, most notably as Head of Marketing & Structured Finance; Property; Energy and Renewables. as an associate member of the 1997. Prior to joining DEPFA Group, Communications and General Manager Retail Institute of Chartered Management Accountants. Dermot held senior positions for Operations, EBS Building Society, Chief Executive of Michael Jackson many years in various national and international Galva Private Hospital Galway, and General Manager In 1983, he joined Bailey Gibson, a member of the Michael is a Partner in the Banking divisions of Allied Irish Bank (AIB). As a member of of Sligo Regional Hospital. Clondalkin Group, where he worked as financial and Financial Services Department of the Board of Directors of Depfa Bank plc, Dermot is controller. From 1991 to 1997 Pat served as general secretary of Matheson Ormsby Prentice. He has responsible for Human Resources and Services. In 1988, he completed a Masters of Business Fianna Fail and was a member of Seanad Eireann in extensive experience in advising a wide Administration Degree in University College Dublin. the period 1992/93. range of domestic and international Ben Conte clients on the structuring, In 1990, he joined Allied Irish Banks International Pat is a director of the VHI and chairs the Audit Benjamin J. Conte moved to Dublin establishment, marketing and sale of financing and Financial Services (AIBIFS), a subsidiary of Allied Irish Committee. He was also a member of the Commission in 2001 and has been the Managing investment vehicles and products in Ireland and other Banks plc. AIBIFS markets the benefits of the Dublin on Financial Controls and Systems in the Health Director of the Dublin office of jurisdictions. In particular he specialises in advising on International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) to Services whose published report acted as an important Susquehanna International Group the legal and regulatory issues surrounding the international corporate and banking groups and to catalyst for the programme of reform of the public (SIG) since 2003. He moved to establishment of alternative investment funds, the date has over 120 employees and works with 160 health services now underway. Dublin a year after the office had structuring, offer and sale of investment instruments international clients from over 26 countries. In 1994, begun operations in the IFSC to set up a pan- and investment products and the provision of he was appointed Director of AIBIFS, in 1996 he was Mary Fulton European equity trading group. Benjamin previously investment advice and other financial services. appointed Deputy Managing Director, and in 1999 he worked on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Mary Fulton is the Partner leading was appointed Managing Director. Deloitte’s financial services audit as a specialist in Equity and Index options and at SIG’s Alberto La Rocca headquarters outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a group in Ireland. Mary has extensive Walter has been a member of An Taoiseach’s Banking Alberto La Rocca is the Chief senior trader in the equity trading group. He has been experience in the financial services and Treasury Group since 1994 and was appointed Executive Officer of Pioneer with SIG since 1993 and has witnessed the growth in sector including insurance and Chairman in 2003. Alternative Investments. Based in the sophistication of the global equity and equity reinsurance, banking and Dublin, Alberto is responsible for the derivatives markets and SIG’s international and securitisation and has been involved with many John C. Bourbon investments, operations and domestic expansion into a leader in trading, businesses establishing in the IFSC. During her career John is CEO of Regulatory Affairs at distribution of the Alternative technology, and research. Benjamin holds an MBA she has carried out numerous regulatory assignments KYCOS, Ltd. (Know Your Customer Investment Division of Pioneer Global Asset from Villanova University in Pennsylvania and a BA in in Ireland and in the UK, both compliance and Outsourced Services). Based in the regulatory intervention. Mary trained with Deloitte in Management S.p.A. Isle of Man, KYCOS provides due Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Claremont Belfast and spent a number of years with the firm in Prior to joining Pioneer Investments, Alberto spent eight diligence, anti-money laundering and McKenna College in California. London before returning to Ireland in 1991, becoming years with UniCredito Italiano. During this time he was training services to financial services a Partner in 1997. She is a chartered accountant and Assistant Portfolio Manager of the fixed-income providers, as well as expertise in international financial Brian Cowen has a degree in economics and accounting from the proprietary portfolio, then becoming the Head of the regulation and fraud prevention. John is a former Brian was appointed Minister for University of Sheffield in England. She is the joint fixed-income proprietary portfolio. Following that he was banking regulator and an internationally known Finance in September 2004. He is author of Deloitte’s publication ‘Responsibilities of the Head of Global Proprietary Trading before joining authority in the fields of compliance and customer also Deputy Leader of the Fianna Fail Directors in Ireland’. Pioneer Investments in 1999 as Chief Executive Officer. due diligence. party. He has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from January 2000 to Alberto holds a Laurea Diploma in Management and John played a key role in the development of the Basel Frank Gast September 2004; Minister for Health Finance from Bocconi University, Milan and a Customer Due Diligence Paper, published in 2001 by the and Children from June 1997 to January 2000; Frank joined BearingPoint (then Certified Accountants Professional Qualification from Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the world’s Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications KPMG Consulting) in 1998 as a the University of Lecce. oldest international financial organization. The Basel from January 1993 to December 1994; Minister for Consultant in the Financial Services Customer Due Diligence Paper later became the basis of Labour from February 1992 to January 1993. He was Practice (eStrategy & eProcesses) John Larkin the USA Patriot Act 2001 in the US. In addition to being focusing on business performance first elected to the Dail in a by-election in June 1984 John joined William Fry in 1990 and a paper co-author, John served on the BIS Working improvement for investment banking caused by the death of his father, Bernard Cowen. That became a Partner in 1993. He is Head Group on Cross Border Banking, a distinguished clients. Since 2001 he has been responsible for product was the first time he had contested an election for of the firm’s Insurance Unit. He has international committee of banking authorities. and business development, particularly focused on public office. Brian was educated at University College assisted many insurance companies fixed-income, repo and securities lending. From 2000 until 2002, John held the position of Dublin and the Incorporated Law Sociery of Ireland. (both life and non life) and reinsurance Managing Director of the Cayman Islands Monetary He has lead several projects for international investment companies to establish in Ireland and Authority (CIMA). In this capacity, he was the James L Deeny banks, exchanges, clearing houses and software has advised on cross-border passporting issues. He has foremost figure responsible for banking regulation in A senior Irish banker, James Deeny was providers including business strategy development, also advised on restructurings and portfolio transfers the world’s fifth largest financial centre. appointed Chairman in September providing process analysis concepts and software and on many insurance based transactions, including Prior to his arrival in the Cayman Islands, John was 2004 to the new Financial Services selection - always in the field of trading, clearing and finite risk transfers and securitisations. Consultative Industry Panel created settlement of capital markets products (e.g. securities Head of Supervision at the Isle of Man Financial He is currently Chairman of An Taoiseach’s IFSC under the Central Bank and Financial lending, repurchase agreements, bonds, derivatives). Supervision Commission. Before this he worked for Insurance Group and is a former Chairman of the Law Services Authority of Ireland Act 2004. nearly 24 years within the financial services arm of the Frank graduated from the University of Trier in Society’s EU & International Affairs Committee. He is A former chief executive of HSBC in Ireland, he has a Barclays Bank Group, becoming Compliance Officer Business Administration, with an emphasis on recommended in the ‘International Who’s Who of background in international banking, insurance and for Barclays Bank Trust Company Limited. Banking & Finance and Marketing (1992-1998). Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers’ and ‘The Guide to mutual funds and remains active in the cross border John holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance international financial services market in Dublin. A Financial Services Regulation and is a Fellow of both Brian Healy Lawyers’. He is also listed as a leading insurance graduate of University College Dublin and Yale the Compliance Institute (FCol) and the Chartered practitioner in Ireland by the 2003/2004 edition of University, his earlier career prior to joining HSBC in As Director of Trading and Institute of Bankers (FCIB). He is a regular speaker at ‘Global Counsel 3000’. 1983 included international commercial banking Regulation, Brian has responsibility international regulatory forums and lectures at the Isle assignments with Chase Manhattan Bank and acting as for the development and integrity of of Man International Business School. Peter Lynch financial advisor to the IDA. He holds a number of the Irish Stock Exchange’s markets directorships with prominent domestic and international for traded securities. He also has Peter has served as Chief Financial Gregory A. Boyko companies involved in the IFS sector in Ireland. responsibility for the Exchange’s IT Officer of eircom since January 2001 Gregory is Chairman and Chief strategy as well as for the management of the and on the board of directors of relationship with its strategic partners - both for Executive Officer of Hartford Life David Dillon eircom Group since March 2004. He International, Ltd., which is a trading and settlement. He is one of the Exchange’s is a director of the eircom Employee David Dillon is an Irish citizen. He is subsidiary of The Hartford Financial senior management team of three executives. Share Ownership Trust and a trustee a founding Partner and a Senior Services Group Inc. Gregory is also of eircom’s main pension fund. Manager of Dillon Eustace solicitors Brian has been an active participant on behalf of executive vice president and a where he works principally in the Ireland’s capital markets in the development of Prior to joining eircom, Peter was Group Finance member of Hartford Life’s Senior Leadership Group, areas of corporate finance, financial securities law in the European Union, in particular Director of Adare Printing Group plc from 1995 to the executive management team that develops services and banking. He is a working in Europe on the Market Abuse Directive and 2000. He was at ABN AMRO Stockbrokers and Riada corporate policy for the company. graduate of Trinity College Dublin where he read law on the new Markets in Financial Instruments Corporate Finance from 1990 to 1995, latterly as As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hartford and also took an MBA. He speaks regularly at the Directive. He is a member of the Committee of Managing Director of stockbroking. European Security Regulator’s Consultative Panel of Life International, Gregory is responsible for the International Bar Association and other international Peter is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Experts for MiFID. expansion of Hartford Life’s lines of business – including fora. He is also a director of a number of Irish based Accountants in Ireland and a member of the Securities life insurance, investment products and employee investment and management companies. Brian’s graduate and postgraduate study was in the Institute. benefits – into the global marketplace. Hartford Life is He is a member of a number of committees and sub- areas of Economics and Finance. He is a Chartered the leading seller of variable annuities in Japan and is a committees established by the Irish Law Society Accountant and a member of the Securities Institute. Deirdre Lyons leading provider of life insurance, employee benefits and relating to commercial law and financial services. He personal savings products in Brazil. Deirdre is Head of International has recently joined the Published Accounts Awards PJ Henehan Financial Services, IDA Ireland. She is He joined Hartford Life in 1995 as Controller and in Committee of the Law Society. He is a member of the PJ Henehan is a Tax Partner in the responsible for all regulated and non- 1996 became the company’s chief financial officer and Investment Funds Committee (Commettee I) of the Financial Services Group and has regulated international financial treasurer, where he was instrumental in preparing IBA International Bar Association. He is a council been with Ernst & Young for over 25 services organisations and the Hartford Life for its initial public stock offering in member of the Dublin Funds Industry Association years. PJ has over two decades continued promotion of the IFSC in May 1997. He was appointed to his present position in and is also Chairman of the Government’s IFSC Funds experience in the taxation field and is Dublin. Prior to this she was Department Manager of 1998. Working Group. He is also an ex-officio member of the a leading expert in structuring the Strategic Business Group. She has a business Prior to joining Hartford Life, he was Senior Vice Clearing House Group for the IFSC. financial products for banks, fund management and background in corporate finance and prior to IDA President and Chief Financial Officer at ING American insurance companies, and high net worth clients. He is worked in the computer industry. Life Insurance Co. Previously, he was a Senior Vice a member of the Ernst & Young Global Financial

For the latest conference information and to register online go to: www.financedublin.com/conference Derek Moriarty Rachel is a Commerce graduate from Edinburgh, and Licentiate in Applied Economics (equivalent to Derek Moriarty is a Consulting an FCMA, and has worked in the life assurance Masters) followed by a Degree in Portfolio Partner at Deloitte specialising in industry since1983, both in a UK domestic context Management in 1998. He has also completed the CEFA financial services. He has extensive and in the international industry. She is an active (Certified European Financial Analyst) qualification. experience in leading business participant in insurance issues and is currently an IIF Conference Speakers advisory and consulting engagements Board member, and chairman of the IIF EU Affairs William Slattery Conference Speakers for international and domestic Committee. Rachel also serves on the International William assumed the position of Full details on all biographies at financedublin.com financial services organisations particularly in relation Insurance Group, which operates under the aegis of Managing Director of State Street to operational strategy. the Department of the Taoiseach, and was appointed International (Ireland) Limited in to the IFSRA Industry Consultative Panel. Derek is a member of the Deloitte Global Financial February 2003, following the Charlie McCreevy Services team and led the International Deloitte team acquisition by State Street Joel Press A chartered accountant, Charlie that produced the ‘Study on the Future of the Corporation of Deutsche McCreevy was appointed European Financial Services Sector in Ireland’ for the IDA. Joel is a Senior Partner in Ernst & International (Ireland) Limited. William had been Commissioner for the Internal Young’s Global Hedge Fund Practice. Managing Director of Deutsche International (Ireland) He provides business advice to Limited since January 2002. He worked for the Central Market in 2004. Patrick Neary investment partnerships, broker- Bank of Ireland for more than twenty years until 1996 Prior to that he had been Minister for Patrick began his career in the dealers and investment advisers and was responsible for supervising Dublin’s Finance since 1997. In this capacitiy, he Central Bank of Ireland in 1971. He covering organization structuring, International Financial Services Centre from its was President of the ECOFIN Council from January to worked in the prudential supervision accounting, tax, and technology issues. establishment in 1987 until 1995. Immediately prior June 2004. He was elected to Dail Eireann (Parliament) area since 1979. He was appointed to leaving the Central Bank he was Deputy Head of for Kildare Constituency in 1977, and was a member of Joel, who is a CPA, also assists in the development of Deputy Head of the Banking Banking Supervision where he was responsible for the Kildare County Council from 1979 to 1985. optimal incentive compensation arrangements for Supervision Department in 1996 and supervision of all Irish banks and building societies. hedge funds, investment managers and broker-dealers. He was Minister for Social Welfare from February as Head of the Securities and Exchanges Supervision He has conducted a number of advisory projects for William joined Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (Ireland) in 1992 - January 1993, Minister for Tourism and Trade Department in 1999. He became Prudential Director multi billion-dollar hedge funds concerning 1996. Following a short period in Ireland, he moved to from January 1993 - December 1994 and Frontbench of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority in leadership, succession planning, systems security, and London where he held a number of senior compliance Spokesperson on Finance from January 1995 - June May 2003. He is a member of the Committee of future technology design. and risk management positions in the asset 1997. European Securities Regulators and the Committee of European Insurance Regulators. management division of Deutsche Bank. From 1999 - Paul Reck 2001 he was Managing Director and Global Head of Dr Wolfgang Mansfeld Damian Neylin Paul Reck is an International Tax Risk Management for the division. Wolfgang has been a member of the Partner at Deloitte specialising in Executive Board of Union Investment Damian Neylin is a partner in financial services tax, including Enda Twomey since 1994. He is also Board member PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) banking, insurance and fund He is the Deputy Chief Executive of of the German Fund Industry Dublin and devotes all of his time to management. Other special the Irish Bankers’ Federation (IBF) Association BVI and Chairman of its serving investment managers and assignments include cross border having joined in 1999. Enda was Committee for International Affairs. their related fund entities. He leads leasing, structured finance transactions and admitted as a solicitor in 1988 having Since June 2002 he has been President of EFAMA, the the PricewaterhouseCoopers Dublin securitisations. The International Tax Review – World obtained a BCL from University European Fund and Asset Management Association Alternative Investment group and has advised Tax Report 2005 identified Paul as one of the leading College Cork in 1984. He obtained an (formerly known as FEFSI), being re-elected in 2004. European and US institutions and emerging managers on the establishment of Dublin domiciled alternative individual tax professionals in Ireland in relation to MBS in Finance from the Smurfit Business School in Since 2003, Wolfgang has been a member of the funds, as well as funds from other domiciles cross border structuring and M&A transactions. He is UCD in 1997. He worked in Manufacturers Hanover Expert Group on Asset Management, advising the administered in Ireland. He has been involved in the also co-author of the Irish Taxation Institute’s annual Ltd. in London from 1989 to 1991, the National European Commission on the integration of European funds area since 1989 working in both London (for tax publication ‘Taxation Summary’. Paul was part of Treasury Management Agency from 1991 to 1997, financial markets. three years) and Dublin. He has also lectured widely in the core Deloitte team that produced the ‘Study on the William Fry Solicitors from 1997 to 1999. Future of the Financial Services Sector in Ireland’ for He is also is a member of the Consultative Working investment funds as well as authoring articles on this the IDA. Group on Investment Management assisting the topic for various publications. He is a member (and Pat Wall Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). past Chairman 2002/2003) of the Council of the Pat is a Tax Partner with Dublin Funds Industry Association. He is also a Guy Saintfiet PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin. Prior to joining Union Investment Group in 1990 he member of the Financial Services Ireland Executive, Guy is Head of Alternative He specialises in investment held senior positions in the German Banking the Taoiseach’s IFSC Funds Group and chairs the Irish Investments at KBC Asset management, insurance and Association, Deka Investment, and LGT-Group. Financial Services Inter-Association Network. He Management (KBCAM). He is 34 pensions. He also has overall provides a range of services to his clients, ranging from years old and has 10 years industry responsibility for foreign direct Dr Daniel J. Mitchell audit to consulting and performance verification. experience; seven years service with investment. He is a member of the IFSC Clearing Dan Mitchell is the McKenna Senior KBCAM. Guy joined the Dublin House Group (CHG) which has overall strategic Fellow in Political Economy at the Aileen O’Donoghue office of KBCAM Ltd in December 2002, having responsibility for development of Ireland’s Heritage Foundation. He is one of Appointed as Director of Financial worked as a portfolio manager in KBCAM NV, in international financial services industry. In that America’s experts on the flat tax and Services Ireland in 2002. Prior to this Brussels, since 1998. Guy’s role evolved from running capacity he chairs the Pan-European Pensions Task has been the leading international appointment, Aileen was Assistant quantitatively driven equity funds into alternative Force which has a mandate to advise the CHG on how voice in the fight to preserve tax Director of Social Policy in the Irish investments at the beginning of 2002. Prior to that, he Ireland should position itself to benefit from the competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty. His Business and Employers spent three years working with Bank Van Breda as an emerging EU single market in pension provisions. responsibilities at the Foundation include authoring account manager for HNWIs. Guy graduated from the Confederation (IBEC) where she was He is also a member of PwC Eurofirm Insurance and papers, writing editorials, working with the public policy EHSAL School of Economics, Brussels in 1996 with a responsible for IBEC policy in relation to employment Pensions Group. community, and presenting the free-market viewpoint to law and the labour market issues. Previous newspaper, television, and radio media. appointments included work in the industrial In addition to his Heritage Foundation relations and economic research areas. responsibilities, Dan co-founded the Center for Aileen is a member of the National Economic and Marketing opportunities for services and products Freedom and Prosperity, an organization formed to Social Council, the Department of the Taoiseach’s protect international tax competition. Prior to joining Clearing House Group, the Expert Group on Future Exposure to over 400 senior executives exists for companies wishing to bring their The Heritage Foundation in 1990, Dan served as an Skill Needs and the Advisory Board for the NCI products and services to the attention of attendees. These include exhibition space economist for Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon. Dan International Financial Services Institute. She is also a in the conference centre’s attractively laid out breakout and relaxation areas also spent more than three years beginning every day member of the IFSRA Industry Panel and chairs the by co-hosting a television show. Panel’s international financial services working group. adjacent to the main conference hall, insertion of your promotional literature in Born in Mt. Kisco, NY, Dan Mitchell earned a Ph.D. in At EU level she is a member of the UNICE Financial conference documentation and sponsorship of receptions or lunches at the events. Services Working Group. economics from George Mason University and For details contact Valerie Hannigan ([email protected]) or Martina undergraduate and Masters degrees from the She has a B.A from University College Dublin and has University of Georgia. He resides with his three an MBA from the Smurfit Graduate School of Bermingham ([email protected]), or call us at 353 1 293 0566. children in Fairfax, Virginia. Business, UCD.

Frank Monks Dr Liam O’Reilly Exhibitors: After completing his Business Studies Liam is Chief Executive of the Irish degree in Trinity College Dublin in Financial Services Regulatory 1974, Frank started his career in Authority (IFSRA), which is accountancy with Cooper and Kenny, responsible for the regulation of the now subsumed into Ernst & Young. financial services industry, both from In 1980, he joined Hill Samuel a prudential and a conduct of Ireland as financial accountant and in 1983 became business viewpoint. Liam was educated in University Company Secretary and Associate Director with College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He has a responsibilities for Finance, Operations, IT and Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a PhD in Human Resources. Later, he became an Executive Econometrics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Irish Financial Director. In the late 80s and early 90s, he was elected Statistics. He has served at a senior level in the Central Services Law Chairman of the Operational Managers’ Committee Bank in economic research, financial control, Handbook of the Association of International banks in Ireland international relations and financial markets. He (now known as FIBI) and took an active role in served on the review group on auditing in Ireland and various industry groups, including IBF Fiscal & was a member of the interim board of the Irish Legislation Committee. He chaired the Central Bank- auditing and accounting supervisory authority, which Payment Systems & Strategy Group and the Central prepared the legislation to set up a Statutory Bank working group on anti-money laundering. He Supervisory Body for the Accountancy profession. was also Director of Credit Institutions and Ombudsman of Ireland Ltd. In 1996, Frank played a Rachel Panagiodis key role in establishing KBL Bank. In 1999, he Rachel is the Managing Director of established Cariparo Ireland on behalf of an Italian Hansard Europe Limited, an IFSC banking group, which was later subsumed into international life company, Hansard SanPaolo Bank after he left. In 2001, he became one of Europe Limited, part of the Hansard the founder shareholders in Nexgen Financial Solutions financial services group, which Group and Managing Director of Nexgen Capital targets many markets across Europe. Limited, the main risk-taking entity within the Group.

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