| Huber to present First-e case study |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Finance Dublin Conference speaker, Gerhard Huber, and author of 'A Day in the Life' in the January issue of the new Finance has been named CEO of Unofirst Group - after the E2.4 billion merger to form ‘the world’s first global internet banking group’. |
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| Individualisation arrives |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| The controversial individualisation proposal of the budget has been reduced to boring technical detail in the Finance Bill. So too has the post-budget IEP3,000 sweetener designed to placate the more numerous voting sex. |
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| International interest in technology and large deals |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| What is the level of international interest in Irish M&A deals and what are its characteristics? |
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| Internet seminar |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| The Irish Centre for Commercial Law Studies is hosting a morning seminar on financial services and the internet on March 16th at the Industry Centre in UCD, Belfield. |
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| Investment managers concentrate on strong fundamentals |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| While the rationale for corporate restructuring and M&A among small cap stocks is strong, the difficulty in predicting which companies will restructure means the focus should be on fundamentals, writes Lenny McLoughlin. |
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| Investment managers plan gross roll-up products |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
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| Irish ‘Pfandbrief’ market proposed by mortgage lenders |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Bond issuance by banks based in Ireland could extend beyond Irish mortgages
to Irish and international public infrastructure. |
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| Irish banks known for excellence worldwide - Hourihan |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Bank of Ireland was the first Irish Harvard business case |
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| Irish management ‘risk comfortable’ |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| How would you characterise Irish management’s attitude to risk in relation to corporate finance deals at present (from ‘over-cautious’ to ‘too risk seeking’) ? |
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| LBOs - funding, sources and cost |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| This is a good time for leveraged buy-outs, with a variety of funding structures and different cost levels to consider, writes Peter Coyne. |
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| Minister defends DWT decision |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| The repeal of dividend withholding tax was ‘not on’, the Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy has said. |
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| New partners at McCann FitzGerald |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| The latest new partners at McCann FitzGerald all work in the area of corporate finance and M&A. All three are in their early thirties and trained and qualified as solicitors with the firm. |
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| No gross roll-up for existing business |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Speaking at the second stage of the Finance Bill 2000, the Minister for Finance confirmed that the possible conversion of existing life business to gross roll-up had been abandoned following industry representations. |
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| OECD highlights low regulatory burden in Irish economy |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| One aspect of the transformation of the Irish economy in recent years has been the degree to which Ireland has increased its competitiveness relative to European and other OECD countries by the lightness of its product market regulation. Sean D. Barrett comments. |
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| Opinion divided over trigger for restructuring |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| What could most likely trigger a wave of corporate restructuring in Irish second line stocks? |
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