Twice a year, Eurofi brings EU finance ministers, regulators and the executives of its member banks and insurers into closed-door sessions on financial regulation, timed to the informal Ecofin meeting of the country holding the EU Council presidency.
Eurofi Financial Forum is the autumn edition of the two annual conferences run by Eurofi, a Paris-based nonprofit trade association and think tank for financial services founded in 2000. It is held every September alongside the informal meeting of EU finance ministers (Ecofin) hosted by whichever country holds the rotating EU Council presidency that half-year. The 2026 edition is timed to the Irish presidency's informal Ecofin, in Dublin. Sessions are closed to the public and to journalists; attendance is by invitation only, drawn from EU institutions, national governments and Eurofi's member financial firms.
16, 17 and 18 September 2026, Wednesday to Friday, in association with the Irish EU Council presidency's informal Ecofin meeting. Clayton Hotel Burlington Road, Leeson Street Upper, Dublin 4, Ireland, D04 A318. Eurofi's own event page for this edition was not yet published as of 3 September 2026; the dates, city and venue above are corroborated by two independent third-party sources (CLS Group and the MSCI Institute, both listing speakers at the session) rather than by Eurofi's own site directly.
Eurofi, a Paris-based nonprofit trade association and think tank for financial services, headquartered at 56 rue de Lille, Paris. Founded in 2000 following a suggestion by then French finance minister Laurent Fabius, originally co-chaired by Daniel Lebègue and Jacques de Larosière. David Wright has chaired Eurofi since 2016, succeeding de Larosière; Didier Cahen has led the organisation as Secretary General since its founding. Eurofi is funded entirely by subscriptions from its member financial firms, over 100 of them (115 listed on the organiser's site in 2026), and declared EU lobbying costs of 7,000,000 to 7,999,999 euros for 2025 in the EU Transparency Register (registration number 288119192442-46), a different figure from the roughly 3,000,000-euro membership-subscription budget it reported in 2019.
Over 900 participants on average across Eurofi's two annual events, an organiser figure with no independent audit. The organiser describes a balanced mix of public and private sector representatives: EU commissioners and Commission officials, national finance ministries, the European Central Bank and European Stability Mechanism, EU supervisory authorities such as EBA, ESMA and EIOPA, and senior executives from Eurofi's member firms. There is no public breakdown of the Dublin 2026 attendee count by category.
Not publicly disclosed as of 3 September 2026, thirteen days before the forum opens; no speaker list for the Dublin edition had been published on the organiser's site at the time of research. For context, not as a forecast of who will appear in Dublin, past and companion editions show the pattern: the March 2026 Eurofi High Level Seminar in Nicosia featured, among others, European Stability Mechanism officials Pierre Gramegna and Rolf Strauch alongside Cypriot finance minister Makis Keravnos. Eurofi typically publishes a detailed programme with named speakers only in the weeks immediately before each event.
The main change on record is the host country: the 2026 Financial Forum moves to Dublin under the Irish EU Council presidency, following Copenhagen in 2025 (Danish presidency) and Budapest in 2024 (Hungarian presidency). It is the second of Eurofi's two 2026 events, after the High Level Seminar held in Nicosia on 26 March 2026 under the Cyprus presidency. No other change to format, session count or publication schedule is documented as of 3 September 2026.
A detailed Dublin agenda was not published as of 3 September 2026. Eurofi's recurring thematic ground, drawn from its own description of both annual events, covers economic and stability challenges, digitalisation and technology, capital markets regulation, banking and insurance regulation, sustainability, payments and anti-money-laundering rules, artificial intelligence, and cryptoasset and stablecoin regulation. Across its two annual events Eurofi runs roughly 90 working sessions a year; the companion spring 2026 seminar in Nicosia ran 40 panel discussions over three days, the scale a Dublin Financial Forum would be expected to match.
Closed-door panel discussions and speeches, non-public and run under the Chatham House Rule. The forum has excluded journalists from the room since 2013; officials who speak sometimes publish their own remarks independently afterward, and Eurofi distributes its own curated summaries and transcripts through its Views Magazine after the event. No open plenary or public-facing session is documented.
Bilateral sideline meetings between member-firm representatives and officials are a documented feature of Eurofi's conferences: the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute and the European Savings and Retail Banks Group reported a record 22 sideline meetings at a past Eurofi conference in Stockholm. No side-event programme specific to the Dublin 2026 edition was published as of 3 September 2026.
No public ticket exists. Participation is invitation-only; the organiser publishes no fee, no ticket tier and no open registration form. Eurofi's operations are funded through annual subscriptions paid by its member firms rather than per-event ticketing.
Not possible through open application. The organiser curates the speaker roster from EU institutions, the host presidency's national government, and the executives of Eurofi's member financial firms; no call for speakers or pitch process is published.
The forum runs no exhibition space and no per-event paid sponsorship tiers. Firms take part instead as Eurofi members, paying an annual subscription; the organiser's site does not publish a membership fee schedule, an application process or a contact route beyond its general site.
Eurofi has no per-event sponsors in the trade-show sense: its conferences are funded by the annual subscriptions of its member companies. As of 2026 the organiser's site lists 115 member firms: ABN Amro, Aema Groupe, Allianz, American Express, Amundi, Apollo, Arch Capital Services, AWS, AXA, Bank of America, Barclays, BBVA, Bitpanda, BlackRock, Blackstone, Bloomberg, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Börse Stuttgart Group, BPCE, Broadridge, BVR, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, CaixaBank, Capital Group, CBOE, Citadel, Citigroup, CLS, CNP, Coinbase, Commerzbank, Covea, Crédit Agricole, Dai-Ichi Life, Danske Bank, Deka, Deloitte, Desjardins, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Börse, DNB, DTCC, Erste Group, eToro, Euroclear, Euronext, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EY, Federated Hermes, Fidelity, Finanzgruppe, Fireblocks, Fitch Group, Flow Traders, Forvis Mazars, Generali, Goldman Sachs, Google, Groupama, HSBC, ICE, ING, Invesco, JP Morgan, KPMG, Kraken, La Banque Postale, Ledger, London Stock Exchange Group, Mastercard, MetLife, Mizuho, Moody's, Morgan Stanley, MSCI, MUFG, Munich Re, Nasdaq, Natixis IM, Nordea, Norinchukin, OKX, Oliver Wyman, Optiver, OTP Group, PayPal, Paysafe, PGIM, Poste Italiane, PwC, Rabobank, Raiffeisen, Raisin, Remitly, Revolut, Ripple, Robinhood, S&P, Santander, SEB, SIBS, SIX, SMBC, Société Générale, Standard Chartered, State Street, Stripe, Susquehanna, Swedbank, Swift, Swiss Re, Tradition, UBS, UniCredit, Vanguard, Visa, Western Union and Zurich. This is the full membership list published on the organiser's site, not a per-event sponsor list; there is no separate, smaller list of sponsors for the Dublin edition.
Across the 115 member firms, large universal and commercial banks form the biggest bloc: BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Santander, UniCredit, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley among them. Insurers and reinsurers (Allianz, AXA, Generali, Munich Re, Swiss Re, Zurich), asset managers (BlackRock, Amundi, Vanguard, Fidelity, Invesco), and market infrastructure operators (Euronext, Deutsche Börse, London Stock Exchange Group, Euroclear, DTCC, Swift) each form a distinct, smaller bloc. A visible fintech and crypto-asset cohort sits alongside them: Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, OKX, Bitpanda, Fireblocks, Ledger, Revolut, Stripe, eToro and Robinhood. The Big Four professional-services firms (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC) and two technology companies (AWS, Google) also hold membership.
No accreditation process exists because there is nothing to accredit into: Eurofi's conferences have been closed to journalists since 2013, according to Wikipedia's sourced account of the organisation. Reporters cannot attend sessions under any process, accredited or not.
Coverage is necessarily external to the closed room. The Financial Times ran a 2019 feature calling Eurofi "the think tank at the heart of the EU" and noting that "Eurofi defies categorisation" (unverifiable information, quoted via a secondary source, not independently checked against the original FT text). Officials who speak at Eurofi conferences sometimes publish their own remarks afterward through their home institutions, as the European Stability Mechanism did for Pierre Gramegna's and Rolf Strauch's appearances at the March 2026 Nicosia seminar. Eurofi's own Views Magazine, distributed after each event, is the most complete public record of what was said in the room.
Three tiers, no fourth. Organiser-published: the Views Magazine and post-event summaries are Eurofi's own curated account, not independent reporting, compiled by an organisation whose members are the subject of the regulatory discussions it summarises. Independent but external: the Financial Times has reported critically on Eurofi itself, including a 2019 investigation raising transparency and industry-dominance concerns, but from outside the closed sessions, since journalists have not had room access since 2013. Self-published by participants: pages such as the European Stability Mechanism's speaker profiles are official statements by the institutions that sent the speaker, not third-party verification of what was said.
Anyone without an existing relationship to Eurofi's membership, an EU institution or a national finance ministry: there is no open registration, no exhibition floor and no public speaker application. Journalists seeking on-record access to the sessions themselves will not get it: the room has excluded press since 2013, and only the organiser's own after-the-fact summaries are public.
Mid-September, in the same window as Europe's broader autumn forum season but serving a narrower audience: Ambrosetti Forum (4 to 6 September 2026) and Economic Forum Karpacz (8 to 10 September 2026) both run in the days immediately before it, but both are general economic and geopolitical gatherings, while Eurofi is a sector-specific financial-regulation forum tied structurally to the EU's own institutional calendar, the informal Ecofin meeting, rather than to any independent editorial theme.
Yes. The Financial Forum rotates each September to the country holding the EU Council's second-half presidency: Budapest in 2024 (Hungarian presidency), Copenhagen in 2025 (Danish presidency), Dublin in 2026 (Irish presidency). A companion event, the Eurofi High Level Seminar, runs each spring in the country holding the first-half presidency: Warsaw in April 2025 (Polish presidency), Nicosia in March 2026 (Cypriot presidency). Both are organised by Eurofi and follow the same closed, invitation-only format.
Not publicly disclosed on the organiser's site as of 3 September 2026; no working-language statement was found for the Dublin edition or for Eurofi's events generally.
Not during the event: no live stream or remote-attendance option is documented, consistent with sessions being closed to the public and to press since 2013. After the event, Eurofi publishes its own curated Views Magazine with summaries and reproduced remarks; this is the organiser's account, not a recording of the sessions themselves.
Not applicable. No ticket is sold, so no refund or cancellation policy exists.
Not publicly disclosed. No accessibility statement is published for the Dublin edition or for Eurofi's events generally; given the invitation-only format, a request would go through the organiser or the host venue directly.
The venue sits at Leeson Street Upper, Dublin 4, Ireland, D04 A318, in south-central Dublin. Dublin Airport is the nearest international airport, roughly 10 kilometres to the north. Dublin's city centre, including Grand Canal Dock and St Stephen's Green, is within walking distance to the north and west.
Because Eurofi's structure gives regulators direct, repeated access to the institutions their rules affect, at a scale few other channels offer: over 900 participants and roughly 90 working sessions a year, funded entirely by the 115 member firms whose businesses the sessions regulate. A 2019 Financial Times investigation raised exactly this concern, and Eurofi has not opened its sessions to outside scrutiny since journalists were excluded from the room in 2013. Read attendance by EU officials as a sign of how central Eurofi has made itself to financial-regulation dialogue, not as evidence that the dialogue is conducted in the open.
Because almost every public account of what happens inside a Eurofi session originates with Eurofi itself or with the officials who attended: the Views Magazine is the organiser's own curated summary, and speaker remarks reach the public only when the speaker's home institution chooses to publish them. No independent reporter has had room access since 2013. Treat the published record of any Eurofi session, including this one in Dublin, as an account produced or approved by participants, not as independent verification of what was said or decided.
Official site: eurofi.net. Organiser overview: eurofi.net/about-eurofi. Membership list: eurofi.net/about-eurofi/eurofi-membership. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofi.