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Vanora Madigan DMS Governance
Vanora Madigan
Director
DMS Governance
DMS Governance is the worldwide leader in fund
governance, risk, and compliance representing
leading investment funds and managers with
assets under management exceeding $350bn.
With eight worldwide ofces we are proud to be
the leading independent fund solutions provider including AIFMD, UCITS Management Company and MiFID services to many of the largest
institutional investors and asset managers globally.
In 2008, DMS successfully launched its Irish
operations. In 2012 after four years of steady
growth, DMS became an authorised Alternative
Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) and UCITS
management company (a “Super Manco”)
approved by the Central Bank of Ireland and the
CSSF in Luxembourg. DMS continued its expansion of its Irish operations and in 2017 acquired the
MiFID entity DMS Market Access which provides full portfolio management services to our clients. In
2018 DMS opened its second Irish ofce in Cashel Co. Tipperary on acquiring Irish Aviation Corporate
Services (AvCS) presently known as DMS Corporate Services (Ireland) Limited.
As a management company DMS offers both turn key and bespoke solutions to our international
client base servicing differing fund structures and regulatory regimes across asset classes in multiple
jurisdictions. Our global service product offering includes structured nance and corporate servicing
and we remain as the leading global solutions provider for investment funds and asset managers.
The funds industry in Ireland has developed
number of new technologies coming into play
over the last 30 years rising to be the third
such as Articial intelligence (AI), Machine
largest fund jurisdiction in the world with
Learning (MI), and Blockchain. With the intro-
over 7,290 Irish domiciled funds managing
duction of new regulations of increased com-
€2.5 trillion of assets. Ireland’s positioning as
plexity the use of data and reporting require-
a central hub for investment funds has been
ments has become a focal point. Data is a
built on initiatives set down by successive
valued commodity and innovative technology
governments and key stakeholders and the
provides access to independent and accurate
robustness of the regulatory environment is
data and assists with the aggregation of data
well regarded.
from multiple sources. Enhanced data use and
advancements in AI has enabled investment
Technology is one of the main drivers of
managers to deliver efciencies which in turn
change and challenge in the industry with a
strengthens
the
investment
management
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