Dermot Hardy is an economist who has spent a 35-year career in the international financial services industry in Dublin.
He has worked as a bond and portfolio manager with ICC Fund Management, an economist and treasury consultant with FTI Treasury, Head of Banking at Bankgesellschaft Berlin (Ireland) plc and Head of Treasury at Aareal Bank AG Dublin Branch. After leaving Aareal Bank he spent over 5 years teaching part-time, primarily at Masters levels, before returning full-time to industry when he we was appointed as Head of Capital Markets & International Banking at the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI).
Always looking to improve himself, Dermot has in recent years completed an Introduction to Digital Currencies from the University of Nicosia and an Advanced Certificate in Management Practice (Entrepreneurship) from Ulster University Business School.
Dermot spent many years lecturing and has taught across a wide variety of courses and academic institutions. A keen sense of curiosity, combined with a blend of academic theory and practical examples to ensure that the students get a good grasp of the topic and can immediately relate it to real-life situations.
Dermot specialises in finance, capital markets and risk management topics with a particular focus on the financial services, structured finance and aircraft financing sectors.
He has also developed and delivered training courses and talks for individual companies and industry groups on understanding economics/financial markets, regulation, securitisation and corporate treasury.
As an active member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers he was awarded the ACT Mentor of the Year for 2017.
Over the years he has built up an extensive network of contacts across both the private and public sectors in Ireland. He was a member of the IFSC Banking & Treasury Committee, a sub-committee of the Clearing House Group under the auspices of the Department of An Taoiseach from 2007 to 2013. He was also Chairman of the BPFI Treasury Industry Working Group and the BPFI Securitisation Working Groups from 2016 to 2017 and was a member of the FSI International Finance Forum from 2014 – 2017. In 2023 he was appointed to the steering group of IFS Skillnet and also to the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) which advises the Irish Government on current and future skills needs of the international financial services centre.
He was a founding member of the Irish Securitisation Forum (ISF) in 2005 and was the Chair of the Investor and Issuer Sub-Group. In 2015 he was also a founding member of the Irish Securitisation Working Group (ISWG) and instrumental in ensuring that the group provided a “whole” industry input into the Securitisation Regulation consultation process with the European Commission.
He has written articles for finance journals and magazines on the subject of securitisation and structured finance. He has also been a panellist and presenter at capital markets, securitisation and financial centres conferences both in Dublin and internationally.
Dermot is a native of Dublin.