| Wild geese |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The flock this month includes an investment manager in Scotland and a financial services consulting partner from London |
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| Wild geese |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The flock this month includes an investment manager in Scotland and a financial services consulting partner from London |
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| You are being watched |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The improvement in information technology is being matched in its speed of development by agreements between Revenues to exchange information. These moves may enable Revenue Authorities to deal with the globalisation of finance and business. |
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| ‘No shortage of equity for PPPs’ |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| As pilot projects gear up, financing options are set out |
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| Bank in ?30m equity, mezzanine and debt deal |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| Bank of Scotland will provide ?30 million to a joint venture property development company in direct equity, mezzanine finance, and senior debt for a residential site in Santry. |
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| Best practices recommended for fund directors |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| A report for the the US Investment Company Institute last year set out the following best practices for funds |
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| Business tax receipts shoot up |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| The record 16.7 per cent year on year growth in tax returns announced by the Minister for Finance in early April shows that receipts from corporation tax, capital gains tax, VAT and stamp duty posted strong growth in the first quarter of 2000. |
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| Canada’s Highway 407 transformed by PPP structure |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| Last November, a full page ad was placed in the Financial Times announcing that Citibank/Salomon Smith Barney had put together a multi-billion dollar financing package for Canadian Highway 407 in seventeen days. Conor O'Malley of Citibank in Dublin provides a brief description of the project. |
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| Consulting outgrowing the accountancy firm |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| The drivers behind the current consulting breakaway from accountancy practices are manifold, writes Greg Sparks. |
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| Derivatives - single currency, interest rate contracts |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| Forward Rate Agreement |
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| Divisions between actual and ‘desired’ culture in financial services |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| You accept that the culture of the organisation matters a lot to business success, but what if the culture you want is not the culture you have?
The areas where the gaps are greatest between desired culture and actual culture in financial services are described by Mary Fulton and Mark Campbell,
who recommends that companies adopt a ‘learning culture’. |
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| Duisenberg makes no prescriptions |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| The European Central Bank has confirmed that its President, Wim Duisenberg, ‘declined to make any recommendations to specific countries’ in relation to policies to address inflation. |
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| EDITORIAL |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| To those who spend their working lives in financial services, and particularly in banking, the tone of speech made by the Minister for Finance at the launch of the Finance Dublin Yearbook 2000 was very welcome. |
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| Employee shares |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| High-tech industries have lobbied for a low tax rate on share options and shares for key workers. The Finance Act has instead offered a tax deferral provided the shares continue to be held. |
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| ERP redesign needed |
Issue: 04 / 2000 |
| The transformation from traditional manufacturing to web-based business has created a need for radical redesign of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) investment, according to a new international study conducted by Cap Gemini. |
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