| An up day - for a change! |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Pramit Ghose, Chief Investment Officer of Hibernian Investment Managers, finds that fund managers remain cautious on stockmarkets for 2001. |
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| Balance of payments, country indebtedness and
country risk ratings |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The Balance of Payments - what it is and why it matters. By Dermot McAleese, Whatley Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin, and taken from his book 'Economics for Business', second edition to be published by Prentice Hall in April 2001. |
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| Barclays focussed approach targets Irish corporates |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Barclays wants to grow its share of the Irish corporate banking market, and sees itself as a niche provider of cross-border banking services. Paul Shovlin, managing director of Barclays Ireland talks to Roisin Hogge. |
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| CBIFSA: Confused compromise or workable structure? |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The introduction of the Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Services Regulation will be the most radical shake-up to hit financial services ever in Ireland. |
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| Ever changing savings market |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The Minister’s for Finance’s latest incentivised savings product has met with popular approval. The range of incentives and penalties in the area of savings regimes can now be quite confusing. |
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| How it went wrong |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The publication of the Tax Strategy Documents is an insight into the origins of the Minister’s budget announcement that he was abolishing the ceiling on employers PRSI contributions. |
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| IBF highlights bank card growth |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The Irish Bankers Federation has highlighted the major growth trend in ATM bank cards in its annual review of activities. |
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| IFSRA operation pegged to start in New Year |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| It is expected to take about a year to enact the necessary legislation to give the new Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Services Authority its powers. Although there will be intense activity in getting the structure off the ground it will not be fully active until 2002. |
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| Irish acquisitions doubled in 2000 |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Irish companies spent IEP8.2 billion on domestic and foreign acquisitions in the year 2000, almost double the amount spent in 1999. |
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| ML opens private banking operation |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Merrill Lynch’s Capital Markets Bank operation in the Treasury Buildings in Dublin’s Grand Canal Street will soon be operating side by side with a new Merrill business, this time targeting high net worth private individuals in Ireland. |
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| Money market funds - an alternative home for surplus cash |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Security, liquidity, performance and convenience are the tenors of Money Market Funds, which have seen major growth in Europe over the past couple of years. Rachel Killeen, Ulster Bank Financial Markets looks at the benefits of these AAA pooled investment companies, which have attracted enlightened corporate and institutional investors. |
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| New Basel Capital Accord - start planning now! |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The implications of the new Basel Capital Accord are so great that banks and investment firms need to take virtually immediate action to be prepared says Alan Merriman. |
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| No property tax |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy has back-tracked on the introduction of an anti-specualtive property tax and will not now introduce it. |
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| Pfandbrief legislation gets go ahead |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The Government has approved proposals for draft Pfandbrief legislation. |
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| Recruitment for IFSRA ceo to start within month |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The Government has made the long awaited decision on Financial Services regulation which will see the Central Bank transformed to be the Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Services Authority. |
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