| EDITORIAL |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Outlook, Stockbroking and Accountancy. |
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| Electronic options key in retail banking |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Methods of transacting banking business which allow customers the greatest freedom continues to play a huge part in retail banking product development writes John Hickey. |
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| Euro may weaken further before strengthening |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| The euro is likely to weaken in short-term, particularly against the dollar. |
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| Funding - a key facet of Bord Gais’ treasury strategy |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| After planning a corporate bond issue for 2003, Bord Gais decided to postpone the issue due to market conditions, and instead raised e500 million in a syndicated loan in which 22 banks participated. |
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| Further rise in bond yields expected |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Bond yields look set to rise into 2004, but will fall soon after. |
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| Growing the EU – Are you ready for EU Accession ? |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| The expansion of the EU to include ten additional Member States on 1 May 2004 has a wide range of implications for Irish businesses. In addition to businesses with branches or investments in those states, businesses trading in goods with those states, or supplying services to them (including financial services) will also be impacted. |
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| IBF work with Revenue on Directive |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Tight deadline will be a challenge for industry. |
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| Improving economies will push rates higher |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Interest rates in the Eurozone, UK and US are set for an upward trajectory say economists. |
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| Interest rates set to rise but no consensus on fixing rates |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Economists responding to FINANCE’s autumn forecasting survey have reduced their predictions for Eurozone and UK interest rates from the last survey, which was conducted in May, but the majority still maintain that interest rates are set to rise sharply over the next 15 months |
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| Interest rates to remain low until mid-2004 |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Four months ago, a survey of Irish financial services economists by Finance produced the clear conclusion that interest rates in the Eurozone, the US and the UK were on their way up, but, current data suggests that the increase may not happen just yet. |
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| Irish RMBS are steady performers |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Low interest rates and affordability have ensured steady performance of Irish residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) a report published by Fitch Ratings has revealed. And Ireland’s strong and steady mortgage market is because of good economic growth, net immigration, and preference for home ownership and low interest rate say the credit ratings agency. |
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| Issuance to feature strongly in 2nd conference |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Ireland as a location for securitisation issuance will be a key topic at the forthcoming second Finance Dublin International Securitisation Conference 2003 to be held in Dublin’s Four Seasons Hotel on November 3rd, 2003. |
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| Landy goes it alone |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Pat Landy has left his position as managing director of corporate finance at Merrion Capital, the Dublin-based stockbroking firm, to set up his own specialist corporate finance boutique, A-Plan Corporate Advisors. |
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| Level of EU regulation continues to increase |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Financial services regulation in Ireland has recently been going through a period of significant change recently, both at a national and at EU level, and further changes are anticipated in the near future write Daragh Bohan and Deirdre Kelly. |
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| Newly independent NCB will strive to do better |
Issue: 09 / 2003 |
| Post-MBO, it is business as usual at NCB, but going forward the strategy will be to improve performance. |
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