International Financial Services

Where are the best regions for operations?

Dublin is the main hub of Ireland’s financial services sector with the base focused on the Irish Financial Services Centre. The IFSC houses some of the world’s premier financial services institutions along with the law and accountancy firms and taxation advisors who support them. The National College of Ireland is also located in the IFSC providing further education on-site to the financial professionals who work there.

The International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) is an integrated development offering world-class office accommodation, executive housing and restaurants plus excellent shopping facilities. The development has expanded beyond its original site and has become a vital part of the wider Irish economy.

Ireland has secured a reputation as one of the leading global locations for Foreign Direct Investment. One of Ireland’s best attributes for attracting FDI is the opportunity for investors to locate their operations in a large variety of locations right across the country.

Ireland’s main cities are Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford and these cities have seen clusters of specific sectors grow up around them. However, IDA defines locations for investment in Ireland by region and as such there are nine regions covering all of the Republic of Ireland.

All of these nine regions have benefitted from FDI in the Financial Services Sector as they all have the ability to meet the requirements of overseas investors. These requirements include access to a skilled and flexible workforce, the right management, financial and corporate skills, a highly developed industrial infrastructure and increasingly opportunities to partner with high-level development resources such as third level education and similar advance enterprises.

As such overseas investors, regardless of sector or activity, will always have a range of locations from which to choose having pin pointed Ireland as their location of choice.