In an attempt to preserve the pre-Brexit status quo for access to the EU financial service products market, the UK places much reliance on the existing EU equivalence framework, which involves recognition of each other’s supervision and regulation. Yet from the outside, any agreement of equivalence arrangements has become intensely political and is comparable to someone who has been less successful than anticipated in the dating world and seeks physical hook-ups only from their ex-partner. This opens an opportunity for Ireland to benefit from deliberately focusing on just two EU financial service products, specifically wholesale EU international syndicated loans to EU…

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