Financial Services Ireland’s financial services industry must focus lobbying on Brussels, warns former FSI chair
Ireland’s financial services industry should focus its lobbying efforts on major EU policy changes such as the banking union, which will have a “much broader impact” on the Irish economy, a senior fund manager has warned. Furio Pietribiasi, the chief executive of Mediolanum International Funds, a Dublin-based asset manager, said the Irish financial services industry was too focussed on domestic policy changes and needed to place a greater emphasis on changes coming from Brussels.
“We are obviously part of all relevant associations, but I think one of the things that our ecosystem needs to be better at is having all these financial services and associations teaming up into Europe,” Pietribiasi, who previously served as chair of Financial Services Ireland and as chair of the Irish Association of Investment Managers, told the Business Post.