| EDITORIAL |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| In a modern economy, there will always be finance; there will always be people within companies needed to manage it; and there will always be financial services needed for individuals and collective concerns. |
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| Eight months work to securitise €600 million |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| Michael Torpey relates the details of the largest Irish debt market event of 1999, when Irish Life and Permanent took €600 million of mortgage assets off its balance sheet. |
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| ESBI builds equity team |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| ESB International Investments has recruited Cormac O’Rourke as investment director for international business. |
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| Finance Bill changes announced |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| New securitisation rules are aimed at the development of securitisation business in Ireland. |
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| Financial advisers sought for new PPP projects of IEP300m |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| Revenues will be recovered from tolls exclusively and, like the existing toll bridge, a revenue sharing agreement will be in place with the public sector, represented by the National Roads Authority, with funds going directly to the Exchequer. |
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| Firms expand as ‘equity’ fees loom |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
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| From Our Archive (February 2000): 'Property price fall of 30-50 p.c. possible if credit growth not curbed' |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| The following article appeared in Finance in February 2000. It was written by William Slattery, then a former head of prudential Supervision in the Central Bank of Ireland, and today CEO of State Street Ireland. It said: "Predictions are being made of 20 per cent growth in property prices this year. Irish households are borrowing like never before. In the US, private debt has risen to 130 per cent of GNP and is seen as unsustainable. William Slattery says the same is true in Ireland in relation to property". |
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| Funding package of ?10m for eirtricity |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| A new electricity product, eirtricity, produced by wind farms, was launched in January by Future Wind Holdings Ltd, a joint venture between Future Wind Partnership and NTR plc (National Toll Roads). |
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| Gross roll up talks continue |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| Talks aimed at finding a resolution to the gross roll up debate are expected to continue right until the publication of the 2000 Finance Bill on 10 February, according to a Department of Finance spokesperson. |
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| How dividend tax will be amended |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| Exemptions from dividend withholding tax are to be extended in this year’s Finance Bill as part of a wide-ranging series of changes to the administration of the tax. |
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| Masterclass on Irish corporates’ use of IFSC |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| One of the founding fathers of the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers, Aengus Murphy, leads a half day workshop on the topic 'Corporate Financial Services from the IFSC - What the IFSC can offer multinational corporations in the 2000s', at the Finance Dublin annual conference on March 27th next (see details on page 9, and on the website findub.com). |
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| Mortgage market strategies still feature broker channel |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| In the context of increased competition in the ever-growing mortgage market, Michael Dowling assesses the market position of the top five lenders. |
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| Most gains below IEP100k |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| The Revenue has carried out a random sample of 39 cases from share option scheme returns of eight companies for 1997/98 for the governments Tax Strategy Group. |
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| New Finance design: feedback |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| We are very grateful for the comments received from many readers on the new design of Finance introduced in January’s edition. |
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| SAP sales up 20 p.c. as finance directors ‘retool’ |
Issue: 02 / 2000 |
| The integrated financial management systems house, SAP, has seen growth in its installed base in Ireland of over 20 per cent in 1999, according to country manager, Jim Murray. |
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