| Strong growth and tight labour supply opens up opportunities |
Issue: 02 / 2007 |
| FinanceJobs.ie looks at current trends in the stockbroking and corporate finance jobs market, and finds opportunities are plentiful for experienced professionals. |
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| Who's Who in finance |
Issue: 02 / 2007 |
| A profile of Tadhg O'Sullivan |
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| Win for Better Regulation |
Issue: 02 / 2007 |
| Better Regulation, the online provider of information regarding Irish financial services legislation and regulations, has won a tender to produce the Pension Board's online consolidated legislation service. |
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| Working in Merrion Stockbrokers |
Issue: 02 / 2007 |
| An employer profile of the stockbroking firm Merrion Stockbrokers, recently taken over by the leading Icelandic bank, Landsbanki. |
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| ABS asset management sector is set to double |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| Ireland’s securitisation sector is set to double over the coming year, delegates at the Fifth Annual Finance Dublin International Securitisation Conference held on November 28th and 29th, were told. |
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| Bonuses to boost finance salaries in 2007 |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| Two surveys published this month by Mercer and the Irish Management Institute (IMI) highlight and examine the growth in salaries for finance professionals. Mercer’s salary survey predicts that salaries are set to grow in 2007, and that this growth is largely dependent on increases in bonuses and other forms of remuneration. IMI’s survey focuses on executive salaries, and shows how executives are more likely to benefit from bonuses, than those in less senior positions. |
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| Boom year for brokers |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| This year is set to be a record year for Ireland's stockbroking sectors, with the chiefs of the top four firms confident that it will be a more profitable year than last. |
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| Budget 2007 |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| This was primarily an income tax budget rather than a business budget. On the business side its most significant attribute was stability achieved by its lack of major changes, and the proposals for consultation on VRT and VAT. Its commitment to reducing the compliance burden on business and changes in preliminary tax, BES and R&D were in principle good but too limited in scale, and the opportunity to reduce the marginal tax burden on high achievers and personal tax contributors was fudged, writes Brian Daly. |
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| CLO manager chooses Dublin |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| Guggenheim Partners, the US diversified financial services firm, chose Dublin over London for its new European collateralised loan obligation (CLO) operation. |
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| Competition in funds industry |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| The recent KPMG UK report on the impact of taxation on the competitive position of the UK as a centre for funds administration and domicile raises issues for Ireland also : do the tax disadvantages cited by the report have any echo here? : are there opportunities for Ireland in the growth areas identified in the report?: are we complacent about Luxemburg as a competitor and the threat from the UK if it remedied its tax problems? |
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| Driving growth in funds and debt servicing |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| Julian Reddyhough is a managing partner of the Maples and Calder group, and managing partner of Maples and Calder’s new Dublin office, which opened earlier this year. Maples and Calder has grown from its origins in the Cayman Islands to an operation with over 500 staff in seven jurisdictions and an administrative arm known as Maples Finance. It acts for more hedge funds and more debt issuing vehicles than any other law firm. |
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| EDITORIAL - Welcome back to tax rate cuts |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| The dream economic scenario unfolding before the Minister for Finance Brian Cowen, and outlined by him in the Budget speech earlier this month, is testimony in itself to the budgetary policies followed, not so much in this budget, but in the many ones preceding - including some going back as fas to a time now receding in the memory - to when there was a coalition Government in office. |
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| FIBI on the road to further success |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| Michael Deeny has just taken over form Mike Ryan (Merrill Lynch) as the new Chairman of the Federation of International Banks in Ireland (FIBI) - the representative voice of international banks based in Ireland. |
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| Firms should be well prepared for CRD |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| The Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), which will introduce a new supervisory framework for capital requirements in Europe, will take effect on January 1st, 2007. The Directive enables firms to take one of three approaches in implementing the Directive. Kevin Allen assesses the Irish implementation progress, and says that firms should be well advanced in their decision making process with respect to how the new requirements will impact on their operations going forward. |
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| Government makes progress on project |
Issue: 01 / 2007 |
| The Government is to establish an expert advisory group, including both industry and consumer representatives, to advise on its plan to consolidate and modernise legislation governing the regulation of the financial services industry in Ireland. |
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