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Salary cuts in finance
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Significant falls in financial services salaries
Salaries in most of the main financial occupations have fallen, some significantly, between 2007 and 2008, according to a survey of job postings in FinanceJobs.ie over the past year – so is it the end of an era, or the beginning of something new?, Geraldine Pollock asks. Job offers in financial services remained firm through the Autumn of 2007, but with the dawning of the new year, the trend, like house prices, has been downward. According to the first annual survey of salary levels computed on the FinanceJobs.ie website, salary offerings in summer 2008 are running down by between 5 p.c.-10 p.c. in the main financial occupations compared with the end of 2007. |
Managing a burst financial bubble
Joe Carr says that Ireland’s reasonably robust financial services sector gives it a sound base for moving ahead in the coming years |
Credit markets crisis continues
The signs are increasingly showing that credit markets are closed again. This augurs badly for risk markets. Panic in credit markets rarely if ever is a positive for shares and property in general. The result, when combined with the commodity crisis, could and probably will, result in further substantial drops in shares and property values from early August levels. Rallies will occur, writes Tony Keogh of Trinity Financial Services. |
The Global Financial Centres Conference in Dublin
Over half of the world's financial centres were represented and analysed at the inaugural financial services conference organised by Fintel on June 16th and 17th 2008.
The conference was addressed by over 40 speakers from financial centres, and global regulatory bodies, including Commissioner McCreevy of the EU, Commissioner Paul Atkins of the United States Securities & Exchange Commission, and Jeffrey Owens, of the OECD. Key sponsors included major accounting firms, PWC and Ernst & Young, and among the banks and financial institutions sponsoring were HSBC, Northern Trust & BNY Mellon. |
NY takes a new (credit) hit, as both leading centres eye rising competitors
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The GFCI ratings - by its author
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The credit crunch and its impact on financial centres
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Tax in turbulent times - easing corporate pain
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Vodafone 2 - death knell for UK CFC rules?
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Tax loss optimisation in a bear market
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Ulster’s capital markets head
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Developments
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