Trinity College Dublin and EY Ireland have created a new academic position dedicated to financial services, marking the first collaboration of its kind between Trinity Business School and Trinity Law School, as reported by the Business Post.

The EY Assistant Professor in Financial Services will be filled later in 2026 following an international recruitment process currently under way. The post is supported by a €1m philanthropic contribution from EY Ireland.

The role is designed to strengthen Ireland's financial services ecosystem and regulatory infrastructure through a combination of academic research, enhanced teaching and deeper structured engagement between the higher education sector and the financial services industry.

By bridging Trinity Business School and Trinity Law School, the position reflects a deliberate cross-disciplinary approach to financial services education, combining legal and commercial perspectives within a single academic remit at one of Ireland's most prominent research universities.

The initiative is positioned to support the development of the next generation of financial services talent in Ireland, creating a structured and sustained channel for knowledge exchange between academia and a major professional services firm operating across the sector.

Ireland's financial services sector has grown significantly in recent years, bolstered by the relocation of European financial operations following Brexit and increasing regulatory scrutiny across banking, asset management and insurance. Demand for specialist graduate expertise with both legal and commercial grounding has grown accordingly, placing university-industry partnerships of this kind at the centre of Ireland's talent development agenda.

Find out more about the new academic post and its significance for Irish financial services education in the full article.