| Lawyers on hand to fix 'Y2K circus' |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| We need to put Y2K, among other things, behind us before the real celebrations can start, writes Kevin Hoy
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| New lending process for school PPPs |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| Reflecting on Equity Bank's experience in Northern Ireland, Joe Higgins says that lending to PPPs in education sets new challenges for banks. |
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| Retire in comfort after 1999 |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| Joe Byrne reflects on a year which brought new options as retirement planning crossed the desks of the people who matter |
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| S&P sells analysis services |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| The November seminar organised by Asset Management Trust, agent in Ireland for Standard & Poor's DRI / Micropal heard S&P economist, Darren Rawcliffe say that he expects the UK to join EMU on 1 January 2004. |
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| Solicitor joins PPP Unit |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| Solicitor Sonja Price of the property practice of William Fry is begins a two year secondment at the PPP unit of the Department of Finance in December. |
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| Stamp duty all in one |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| Revenue and Department of Finance officials have been warmly congratulated by Dail deputies for the 'magnum opus' of the Stamp Duty Consolidation Bill, 1999. |
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| Survival tips for Irish second line stocks |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| An article last year in the influential New-York Barrons magazine suggested that Irish shares represent exceptional value. Under the headline "Celtic Tiger Burning Bright, Ireland Won't Follow Asia's Script", the article drew attention to second liners such as Irish Continental Group, Abbey and Jury Doyle Hotel Group as examples of companies with good growth potential Owen Purcell takes up the baton and offers some advice. |
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| This Month |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| In the last edition of Finance this year, decade, century and millennium, we have decided to re-print an excellent article by Professor Louis Cullen of the Department of Modern History in Trinity College, Dublin on 1,000 years of finance. |
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| Views sought on new capital miles |
Issue: 12 / 1999 |
| The EU has entered the campaign to push for changes to the capital adequacy arrangements for banks and investment firms. |
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| Advertising proven to boost sales and share prices |
Issue: 11 / 1999 |
| UK and Irish case histories show that effective advertising campaigns can give measurable increases to sales and market capitalisation, writes John Fanning |
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| AIB enhances web-based payments |
Issue: 11 / 1999 |
| Fxcentre, AIB Corporate & Commercial Treasury's interactive web site, has enhanced its service by allowing importing and exporting companies to view their international payment advices online at fxcentrepro.com. |
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| Brian O’Donnell & Partners, Solicitors |
Issue: 11 / 1999 |
| Regular readers of Finance may be interested to note the appointment of Robert Ryan as a partner in Brian O'Donnell & Partners, Solicitors, the full service corporate law firm. |
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| CAT needs abolition, not reform |
Issue: 11 / 1999 |
| Capital acquisitions tax is a bad system heavily patched up in a misguided effort to keep it alive. |
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| Chartered secretaries call for reduced compliance cost |
Issue: 11 / 1999 |
| Speakers at the annual conference of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, which took place in October, emphasised that the burden of compliance should be rebalanced. |
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| Citibank aims to be the ‘Coca Cola of banking’ |
Issue: 11 / 1999 |
| 'Often the more awareness there is of the product in the market the more it is trusted by the customers' said Brian Hayes, director of treasury at Citibank at the October marketing breakfast. |
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