2024 - New Year Financial Markets & Economic Update
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Thu, 11 January 2024
13:00 - 14:00
Location
Your event Zoom link is available via IOB Learn, but will also be emailed to you before 11am on the morning of your event.
Event Details
Free
Date and Time
Thu, 11 January 2024
13:00 - 14:00
Location
Your event Zoom link is available via IOB Learn, but will also be emailed to you before 11am on the morning of your event.
Looking forward to 2024, with falling interest rates, what will be the likely impact on international financial markets and the domestic Irish economy?
What are the challenges and opportunities as the rate cycle switches, and how are the asset classes likely to react?
Registration for this event will close at midnight the night prior to the event or when it reaches capacity.
This event is available to IOB Members. If you are not currently a member, you can sign up here!
There is 1 CPD hour available for the following designations:
-APA (All categories except Life Assurance and ethics)
-QFA (All categories except Life Assurance and ethics)
-RS (All categories except Life Assurance and ethics)
-LCOI
-PB (Profressional Banker)
-CB (Chartered Banker)
-CBD
-FCI Compliance
-WMP (Specialist Categories)
-AFP (Specialist Categories)
-RRP
Kevin McConnell
CFA, CEO GEM Strategic
Kevin, a Chartered Financial Analyst, is an external specialist consultant in the banking and investment sectors with over 30 years of experience in financial markets. Working with banks, regulators and investors in Credit, Capital, Stress Testing and Strategy, Kevin has experience in over a dozen regulatory jurisdictions across Europe, US and Emerging markets.
He has worked through a range of top tier M&A transactions providing stress testing/due diligence consultancy, and transaction advisory. He was a member of the Committee on Collective Investment Governance (CCIG) of Central Bank of Ireland (2014) which supported the development of CP86. Kevin has presented and provided training at European Central Bank, and has delivered expert programs to European and Middle Eastern based regulators on Bank Capital, Credit and IFRS9.
He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Certified Investment Fund Director Institute for seven years, delivering programs in Investment Management to board directors, and is a Senior Associate of Faculty, Institute of Banking (IOB) Executive Education- Certified Bank Director Program since 2012. He has designed and delivers the Structured Finance/Credit program for the Msc in Finance in Michael Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin, the Graduate Diploma in Alternative Investment, the Professional Certificate in Capital Market Investment & Funds program for the Institute of Banking (IOB-UCD), and the Asset Management/Sustainable Finance program on the Msc. in Finance, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) for over a decade.
Kevin has also delivered programs on Bank Capital, Investments and Credit, in association with the IOB and Cambridge University. Kevin is also an adjunct Professor of Finance with TCD, and Examiner for the Certified Financial Planner examination for Financial Planning & Standards Board in Ireland.
Kevin is also deputy chair of the Irish platform of one of the largest CLO originators in Europe, sits on a range of investment fund boards and is chief executive of GEM Strategic, a specialist banking and investment consultancy firm.
