| New IFSRA chief will have flexible approach |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| In an interview outlining his vision for the new regulator published in this month’s edition of Finance Dublin, Dr. Liam O’Reilly, the newly appointed chief executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (IFSRA), has said that his approach to regulating the industry will be as open and flexible as before. |
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| O’Connor re-elected |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers have unanimously re-elected Donal O’Connor as senior partner of the Republic of Ireland firm for a four-year term from July 1st 2003. |
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| Pan-European pension decision imminent |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| The European Commission’s Pension Directive has gone before the European Parliament for its second reading and faces a crucial vote, which will determine the future of the pension industry in Ireland and beyond. |
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| Pension funds - equity markets in turmoil |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Michael Dempsey assesses pension fund performance in the year-to-date and finds that Bank of Ireland Asset Management is the best performing fund manager so far this year. |
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| People are key to managing treasury risks |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Last month Declan McGivern explained the crucial role enterprise risk management (ERM) plays in treasury risk management. This month he highlights the important role treasury culture plays in controlling risks and says that employees should be rewarded for strict compliance to company controls. |
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| Telekurs to open Dublin office |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Telekurs Financial, a global supplier of financial information, is to open an office in Dublin on Harcourt Street. |
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| The inevitable question |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Was it a good Budget, was it a bad Budget? It is impossible to say, because we cannot agree on what is good and what is bad about Budgets. |
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| Treasurers welcome increased focus on corporate governance |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| The increased appetite for regulation in the wake of the Enron scandal was broadly welcomed by panellists at the second annual Finance Treasury Roundtable discussion, which was held on November 7th in The Vaults in the IFSC. |
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| Trends in IPO methods - how to get it right |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| The popularity of book-building for initial public offerings (IPOs) has grown in the last decade despite the greater costs involved. UCC academics Edel Barnes, Derek Beatty and Gael Hardie-Brown examine how it can be both successful and effective. |
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| Using Microsoft Excel to price financial options |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| George Levy explains how Excel can be used to evaluate an option’s value that depends on the value of one underlying asset as well as multiple underlying assets. |
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| Who cooked the budget? |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Social partners, politicians, professional lobby groups, trade representative bodies, Civil Servants and even the Minister for Finance all have a hand in drafting a Budget. Whose thumb prints can be discovered on which measures in Mr McCreevy’s sixth Budget? |
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| Who’s who in Finance:Ted McGovern, Chief Executive, EBS Building Society |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
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| Accountancy firm to integrate |
Issue: 10 / 2002 |
| Chapman Flood Mazars, the accounting and consulting firm, is to fully integrate its brand and client services with all other Mazars firms throughout Europe and is to be renamed Mazars. |
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| Anglo awards mandate |
Issue: 10 / 2002 |
| Anglo Irish Bank has awarded ABN AMRO with its continuous linked settlement (CLS) third party services mandate for foreign exchange transactions. |
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| Banks must recover confidence and market credibility in order to survive |
Issue: 10 / 2002 |
| Professor Ray Kinsella examines the development and strategy of Ireland’s two largest banks in what he calls a ‘watershed’ year for Irish banking - 2002. |
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