| Who's who in Finance: Olwyn Alexander, Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers Funds Group, Dublin, CFA Charter |
Issue: 12 / 2003 |
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| Windfarm deal closes |
Issue: 12 / 2003 |
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| €3bn issued in October |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| It has been a busy month for the burgeoning Irish asset covered security market with two new issues from WestLB and DEPFA Bank. |
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| AIB signs outsourcing agreement with ABN AMRO |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| Deal will result in first online package for trade finance. |
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| Banks line up to issue CDs, as market forecast to explode |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| A number of Irish banks are looking at issuing CDs following legislative changes in the last Finance Act. |
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| Borrowers need to manage their relationships, but must also look out for new lenders |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| Julian van Kan and Simon Alloca offer advice to corporates considering raising funds via a syndicated loan. |
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| Budget issues |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| Elsewhere there is a summary of the advice given to the Minister from outside the Civil Service, in the framing of his budget. There are other issues known to be under consideration. Some will be acted on, some kicked into a 'consultation' waiting room, and others ducked. |
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| COMIT signs agreement |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| The Irish owned arm of Swiss IT consultancy, COMIT Gruppe, has signed a partnership with Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence. |
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| Davy is overall winner but Goodbody performs strongly |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| Davy Stockbrokers has emerged as the overall winner of the 2003 FINANCE Stockbroking Survey, winning the most categories, but the other brokers, Merrion, NCB and most notably Goodbody, also put in good performances. The honour of most-improved stockbroking firm however, goes to Goodbody, who put in a sterling performance this year to win a host of categories, including repeat winner Colin Hunt for 'Best Research Economist', and 'Analyst of the Year' which went to buiding materials analyst Robert Eason. |
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| EDITORIAL |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| Challenge will be to restore competitiveness - The various submissions made by the financial services industry associations to Minister for FINANCE Charlie McCreevy in advance of the Budget 2004, and which are reported on to some extent in this issue all have a common message. |
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| European LBO volume continues to increase |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| In this overview of the European leveraged loans and CDO funds market, market participant AIB Acquisition Finance, which to date has issued three CDOs of leveraged loans, explains why and how AIB got into this market. |
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| European syndicated loan market is now worth over €600bn |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| Increased demand for corporate borrowing has meant a proliferation of debt instruments over the past twenty years. Vanilla debt financing, such as syndicated loans, however, continues to prove a resilient means of tapping the market for liquidity writes Bill Fish. |
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| Financial reporting – the European highway |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| Time is running out on preparations for the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standards in 2005 writes Brendan Sheridan. While listed companies need to step up a gear to make the deadline, the future remains uncertain for Irish non-listed entities, as the Government has yet to decide whether to extend the application of IFRS to non-listed entities or to retain the currently adopted standards. |
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| First Active’s diversified funding strategy |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| With credit growing increasing rapidly in Ireland, financial institutions are increasingly turning to the capital markets for funding. No stranger to this is First Active, who this year alone raised funds via the syndicated loan market, by issuing private placements off its MTN programme, by securitisation, and by raising sub-ordinated debt, Gerry Murray reports. |
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| FSI urges McCreevy to restore competitiveness |
Issue: 11 / 2003 |
| The finance industry’s main representative association, Financial Services Ireland (FSI), has warned against any increases in taxation that would adversely affect its members in Budget 2004. |
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