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2025-09-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Robert Troy (Minister of State), Department of Finance; Simon Harris (Tánaiste and Minister), Department of Foreign Affairs; Michael J. McGrath (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance; Peter Burke (Minister), Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Intent: Improving Ireland and the EU's competitiveness
Methods: Letter, Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Proposals to cultivate growth and competitiveness for the financial services industry in Ireland and Europe. |
2024-09-16
Politician(s) lobbied: Michael McGrath (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Michael McGrath (Minister), Department of Finance
Intent: potential to leverage abandoned assets for charity/state programmes.
Methods: Informal communication
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The benefits of having a dormant accounts style regime for abandoned investments held by Irish collective investment schemes |
2023-02-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Frances Fitzgerald (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: Express potential issues around the extra-territorial application of the rules and the civil liability provisions and our proposals for a qualified scope of application to financial services for financial firms.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Meeting to set out BNY Mellon's position regarding the proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive |
2023-02-17
Politician(s) lobbied: Michael J. McGrath (Assistant Secretary), Department of Finance
Intent: To raise awareness of the potential opportunities and benefits the creation of a Depositary passporting regime could have for the Irish Funds Industry.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Meeting to set out BNY Mellon's supportive position regarding the creation of a passporting regime for Depositaries in the context of reforms of AIFMD legislation |
2022-01-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Chloe O'Reilly (Advisory Counsel), Department of Foreign Affairs
Intent: lobbying meeting focusing mainly of the current absence of depositary passport. We were advocating for the introduction of a Depositary Passport in the current Commission proposal.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | AIFMD review (in the wider context of the CMU package released in November) |
2021-09-10
Politician(s) lobbied: Seán Fleming (Minister of State), Department of Finance
Intent: Legislate into Irish law Crypto Assets
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | The Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) proposal by the European Commission seeks to create a regime for crypto assets at the European level. BNY Mellon propose legislative action to come in at a national level. |
2020-01-20
Politician(s) lobbied: Ambrose Murray (Specialist), The President's Establishment
Intent: The purpose of the meeting was to raise awareness of the issue and to seek support for appropriate redrafting of the Investment Firms Directive/Regulation so that MiFID-authorised asset managers remain out of scope of the requirement for the EU intermediate parent undertaking.
Methods: Event / Reception
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Discussion was held on the finalised CRD5/CRR2 |
| — | and the nearly-finalised Investment Firms Directive/Regulation and its implications for MiFID authorised asset managers. In particular |
| — | the interaction between the regimes would result in MiFID authorised asset managers being brought into scope of the requirement for an EU intermediate parent undertaking in CRD5.The meeting on 11 September was a follow-up to the July meeting to see if there were any further developments at the EU level. |
2019-09-02
Politician(s) lobbied: Ambrose Murray (Specialist), The President's Establishment
Intent: The purpose of the meeting was to raise awareness of the issue and to seek support for appropriate redrafting of the Investment Firms Directive/Regulation so that MiFID-authorised asset managers remain out of scope of the requirement for the EU intermediate parent undertaking.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Discussion was held on the finalised CRD5/CRR2 |
| — | and the nearly-finalised Investment Firms Directive/Regulation and its implications for MiFID authorised asset managers. In particular |
| — | the interaction between the regimes would result in MiFID authorised asset managers being brought into scope of the requirement for an EU intermediate parent undertaking in CRD5. |
2018-01-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Michael W. D'Arcy (Minister of State), Department of Finance
Intent: Minister and IDA to help BNY Mellon CEO understand what is happening in the wider Irish economy and the impact of Brexit to date on the financial services industry
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | General introductory meeting for BNY Mellon's Group CEO Charlie Scharf |
| — | to Junior Minister Michael Darcy |
2018-01-19
Politician(s) lobbied: Michael W. D'Arcy (Minister of State), Department of Finance; Dr. Paul Ryan (Head of Directing Division), Department of Finance
Intent: Voice concerns on the capacity constraints in Wexford and discuss, in general, the opportunities, growth areas and issues the financial services industry is currently facing in Ireland
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Discussion points included BNYM in Dublin |
| — | Cork and Wexford |
| — | new initiative in Ireland (MTF) |
| — | Passporting |
| — | Outsourcing |
| — | Technology / Innovation and opportunities for growth in Ireland |