International Financial Services

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Apprenticeships are industry-led and based around the staffing needs of small, medium and large firms so, almost by definition, all apprenticeships are for roles in high demand. Photograph: iStock
Pay a big draw as demand for apprenticeships increases

What’s most surprising about apprenticeships? Is it that it took a recession – and the near collapse in the numbers of school-leavers taking them up(...)

Meg O’Kelly (24) from Dublin is one of the chosen few on the ESB’s apprentice programme for network technicians.
Are Irish mammies ready for their children to embrace apprenticeships?

A recent survey investigating the biggest influence on young people’s career choices has confirmed what many of us suspected all along: it’s the Irish(...)

At the end of last year, 44,000 people were employed in IFS here, across 430 firms. Some 45% of these roles were located outside Dublin. File photograph: Getty
State targets 5,000 jobs in international financial services

The Government has developed a revised strategy for the growth of the international financial services (IFS) that it hopes will deliver 5,000 net new (...)

A new International Financial Services (IFS) apprenticeship gives students an opportunity to earn while they learn. Photo: iStock
Ask Brian: What are my employment options in the financial sector?

Question: My son secured work experience through a family friend in AIB in the IFSC last year. He really enjoyed it and is taking business in his Leav(...)

Ireland is to host a second annual European Financial Forum at Dublin Castle on January 24th next year. Photograph: iStock
Department of Finance taking over IFSC strategy

Responsibility within Government for developing the international financial services (IFS) sector here has been moved to the Department of Finance fro(...)

The IFSC in Dublin. “Increasingly, employers want more than a deep disciplinary knowledge about a particular area. They are looking for graduates who can combine skills from different areas - such as digital and financial service skills - and operate effectively across disciplinary, social and cultural boundaries.” File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times
CAO Countdown: Financial firms compete for school-leavers

Even Charles Haughey can hardly have dreamed of how big financial services would become when he helped establish the International Financial Services (...)

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Spring statement: Full text of Michael Noonan’s speech

A Cheann Comhairle, Since taking office in 2011, the Government has been determined to fulfil the mandate given to us by the Irish people. To repair t(...)