| IAS 39 changes hedging strategies |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Corporate treasurers are turning to vanilla products. |
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| IBI tops 2005 deal league table |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| IBI leads by volume of deals, but Goodbody leads on deal value, according to the latest statistics on the industry. |
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| MAD Directive will herald significant changes in financial services industry |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| The Market Abuse Directive will take an important step towards ensuring stable, transparent, integrated and efficient European markets, and while it was implemented in Ireland in July, a number of important practical provisions were just introduced on October 1st. Joe Beashel attempts to relieve some of the ‘legislative fatigue’ facing the industry caused by this and a number of other EU Directives currently being transposed by the financial services industry, by giving a broad introduction and overview of this important new piece of legislation. |
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| Minimising foreign taxes |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Ireland is a low tax economy that earns its living largely by trading with other countries. Such foreign trade activities can expose an Irish business to high foreign tax. Failure to adopt structures to deal with this can result in damage to reputation in foreign markets and costly foreign tax bills. |
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| Moves on Directors’ Compliance |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| The Company Law Review Group’s (CLRG) review of the controversial Directors’ Compliance Statement (DCS) has been completed, and CLRG has now made its recommendations, which are expected to include significant revisions to the DCS, to Government. |
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| News Briefs |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
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| PPP tenders announced for Criminal Court |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Three candidates have been shortlisted for the Courts Service PPP project. |
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| Record numbers polled in FINANCE Stockbroking Survey 2005 |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Voting for the 2005 Survey has commenced, with a record number of fund managers being polled for this year's survey, in this, the nineteenth year of the survey. |
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| SEPA – transforming the payments business in Europe |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| SEPA is a major project currently being undertaken on a voluntary basis by the European banking industry, to integrate and harmonise payment systems in the Eurozone in particular, and Europe generally. By 2010 SEPA is expected to be the dominant payment mechanism for both cross-border payments, and payments within Ireland. Tom Conlon describes the challenges ahead. |
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| Staffing is biggest issue for industry going forward |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Difficulties in attracting the right staff is proving to be problematic for Ireland’s accountancy industry, at a time when ‘over-regulation’ is proving to be both an opportunity and an obstacle, say the managing partners of Ireland’s leading accountancy firms. |
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| Treasurers look for clearer MiFID distinction |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Non-financial institutions’ trading activites should not be inhibited under MiFID says ACT |
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| VAT and Factoring |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| A European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgement has improved the VAT position of companies who factor debts. In most cases this should reduce the cost to them of factoring transactions. Some taxpayers may have a right to recover VAT for past periods. |
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| What is finite reinsurance? |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Finite reinsurance, also known as ‘financial reinsurance’ or ‘non-traditional insurance products’, has come under increasing scrutiny from various regulators in recent months. Raj Parker and Nathan Wilmott explain what finite reinsurance is, when it is used and why a number of regulators are currently investigating the use of these products. |
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| When was the last time you did a Customs Duty review? |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
| Paying import duties (customs, excise and VAT) is traditionally something that companies just get on with. While VAT is usually closely monitored (and exemptions, reclaims and other mechanisms are put in place), reclaimable. Customs and Excise costs are usually often treated as a fixed cost and where possible passed onto the consumer to be, at best, factored into a sales price, end of story. However maybe it is time that Finance Directors took time out to examine Customs duty and do a full scale review. |
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| Who’s who in Finance: Brian Murphy, Director of Treasury, Anglo Irish Bank Corporation plc |
Issue: 10 / 2005 |
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