The Financial Services Innovation Centre hosted an event with Jonathan McMahon, Director -Financial Insitutions, Central Bank of Ireland and Dr. Tom McCarthy, CEO Irish Management Institute at University College Cork in April 2011.

Images taken at the event L to R: Dr. Tom McCarty, Jonathan McMahon & Prof. Ciaran Murphy (UCC)

JB McCarthy from the FSIC presented at the PayExpo Europe Conference 2016 held in the Excel, London on June 7th and 8th.

Payexpo is Europe’s largest full-ecosystem gathering of payments stakeholders committed to creating cash-light societies.

The attendance numbered nearly 2,300 senior players from leading organisations across the continent, making this a truly European event.

The title of JB’s presentation was “Using social platforms to make payments exciting” which was part of the the using social networks for personalised and immediate payments stream.

Bank of Ireland and UCC’s Financial Services Innovation Centre in Cork have agreed a €500k Research Collaboration Project to tackle Technology Challenges facing Financial Services Sector. Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Micheal Martin T.D announced on Monday what he termed "a unique research partnership."

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The ‘Facing the Future and Capturing Opportunities for Growth’ seminar was jointly hosted by Financial Services Innovation Centre (FSIC), UCC and Redmayne-Bentley Stockbrokers in January 2013.  At this seminar attendees had the opportunity to hear views from Redmayne-Bentley expert speakers and those of Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev, Adjunct Lecturer in Economics at Trinity College Dublin.

At the Ecri Conference Brussels May 2015. JB McCarthy Development Director of the FSIC, was a panel member at the European Credit Research Institute (ECRI) conference in Brussels and gave a presentation on

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