| News |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
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| OpenHydro’s energy technology draws private client funding |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| OpenHydro’s €40 million fundraising from a combination of existing shareholders and Davy clients leaves the company funded for the next two to three years in a pre-Revenue deal to develop turbine technology. |
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| Smurfit Kappa - the largest IPO in Irish business history |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| The Smurfit Kappa IPO won ‘Equity Linked Deal of the Year’. It was the largest IPO in Ireland in to date and also the 3rd largest IPO in EMEA in 2007 making it an IPO of global significance. It beat off competition from a strong second - SVG Diamond Private Equity III plc, notable as it combined the new Irish qualifying investor fund regime and the Irish section 110 regime by interposing a securitisation vehicle in a fund structure. Further details of the SVG Diamond deal can be read on www.finance-magazine.com - where all the nominations are profiled. |
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| Spread betting symposium: a tool for all eventualities |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| With the impact of the credit crisis on the financial markets, Spread Betting has seen an increase in volumes traded in 2008. Four market experts give their opinions on the emerging trends that are driving the market. |
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| Tax and the Irish investment funds industry - a time of challenge and opportunity |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| As the new Taoiseach opens the door for funds service providers to outsource to Northern Ireland, Seamus Hand and Ted McGrath look at some of the tax related opportunities and challenges facing the investment funds industry in Ireland. |
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| Tax on the agenda |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
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| The ‘deepening roots’ of IFSC banking |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| Padraig Rushe reviews the IFSC banking sector highlighting the telling developments of its evolution. Rushe takes a look forward at potential areas of excellence in the banking sector including private banking & covered bonds; and within the overall investment funds arena the presence of a licensed in-house custodian bank greatly enhances the service offering from the funds administration sector. |
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| The new Commission on Taxation, a poisoned chalice for outgoing Chairman? |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| PJ HENEHAN casts a cold eye over the terms of reference for the new Commission on Taxation, and concludes that Frank Daly, the Commission’s chairman, will need to summon all his skills to navigate a course that avoids endless debates arising from potential inherent conflicts in the terms of reference, and, like the last Commission, result in multiple volumes and thousands of pages produced over multiple years. |
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| The new VAT package |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| Niall Campbell comments on forthcoming EU rules for the place of supply of services and new procedures for VAT refunds. |
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| The UK 'non doms' move |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| This Financejobs.ie finance careers symposium, examines the impact that changes to the UK's taxation of non domiciled residents are having on the City, and whether Ireland will gain. |
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| Using a physics background in financial services |
Issue: 06 / 2008 |
| John Patchell is a quantitative analyst with Nexgen Financial Solutions. Patchell is using his Ph.D in physics (opto-electronics) to write programmes for financial models. Using his mathematical background, Patchell shows the mobility a mathematical background offers - switching disciplines from physics to finance. |
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| ‘Deals of the Year’ nominations for 2008 |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
| 2007 and so far in 2008 have seen a record number of deals nominated for the FINANCE Capital Markets Deals of The Year awards. The eight different categories: corporate finance, equity linked deals, capital issues, securitisations, private placements, project finance, loans and bonds all show the high level of expertise in the Irish market, evidenced by the innovation in many of the deal structures and efficiency of execution. Dislocation in credit markets could indicate a slower year ahead, yet deal volumes at 54 are significantly ahead of both quarter one 2006 and 2007, according to Ion equity’s M&A tracker in quarter 1 2008. With potential deals in the pipeline like the takeover of FBD by Eureko, deal activity this quarter has proved resilient showing that funds are available and trade buyers are completing strategic deals in current market conditions. |
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| Chinese banks: a new opportunity for the IFSC |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
| Cormac Murphy and Aidan Walsh identify the opportunity for the IFSC presented by Chinese banks. They say the Chinese banks are starting to see the same opportunity as the US and continental institutions who already operate here in Dublin with Ireland’s attractive low tax and an uncomplicated double taxation agreement between Ireland and China. |
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| Could UK’s expatriate loss be Ireland’s gain? |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
| John Bradley takes a look at the fundamental changes which the UK Chancellor has announced in relation to the tax regime applicable to non UK domiciled individuals who are resident in the UK and asks what opportunities, if any, they raise for Ireland. |
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| Credit crisis lessons |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
| Editorial |
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