Showing posts with label Irish banking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish banking. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

13/12/19: World Bank and WEF reports highlight relatively poor competitiveness rankings for Ireland

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The latest World Bank "Doing Business" report rankings and the WEF's "Global Competitiveness Report" rankings show...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

10/12/19: Irish Banks: Part 2

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Continuing with the coverage of the Irish banks, in the second article for The Currency , available here:  https://www.thecurrency.news/ar...

10/12/19: Irish Banks: Part 1

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Returning back to the blog after a break, some updates on recent published work. In the first article on Irish banking for The Currency,...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

3/12/15: Heard of Number26, yet?..

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An interesting 'break-in' into Irish banking market via Number26 which uses: Fintech platform; and German license to break ...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

27/4/2013: Sunday Times : March 31, 2014

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The first of three consecutive posts to update on my recent articles in press. This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article fr...
Friday, April 19, 2013

19/4/2013: More from the IMF on Irish banks...

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Getting back to the IMF GFSR report released earlier this week. Some nice charts worth a quick comment or two: Two things worth noting ...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

17/4/2013: IMF's succinct summary of Irish banking mess

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IMF's GFSR Chapter 1 offers a nice visual highlighting the fact that Irish banking system is still the sickest of all banking systems ...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

19/12/2012: IMF on Irish Banks Zombies

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Continuing with reading IMF latest report on Ireland, here's another bit. This time about Irish banks. Now, recall that in recent mont...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

29/8/2012: Slovenia & Ireland lead in banks-related risks

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According to latest data from the Euromoney, Slovenia now leads the rise in bank-related risks in Europe. Here's a chart mapping decli...
Friday, February 17, 2012

17/2/2012: Harmful Competition? Not so fast...

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In recent years there has been much said about the dangers of competition in the banking sector across the EU and specifically in Ireland. ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

10/08/2011: Bank of Ireland Interim Results H1 2011

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Bank of Ireland interim results are out today, confirming, broadly speaking several assertions I've made before. You can skip to the end...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

02/06/11: Central Bank Monthly Stats - IRL 6

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This is the second post of two covering Central Bank stats for April 2011. The first post ( here ) focused on Domestic Group of banks. This ...

02/06/2011: Central Bank Monthly Stats - Domestic Group

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Ok, folks, with some brief delay due to computational complexities - here are charts on Irish banking sector health. These are aggregates fr...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

02/03/2011: CB data - Total deposits

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In the next few posts I will be covering the data released yesterday by the Central Bank. Here are two telling charts rarely seen side by si...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Economics 19/9/10: Irish banks - Government intervention still has no effect

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Returning to my old theme - let's take a fresh look at the Government and its policy cheerleaders success rate with repairing our bankin...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Economics 20/8/10: BOSI lessons

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Some impressive numbers from BOSI withdrawal from the Irish market are: BOSI holds a €32bn loan book in the Irish market (total Irish market...
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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Economics 1/8/10: Merrill Lynch & Minister Lenihan's Banks Guarantee

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Those who follow my tweeter contributions (@GTCost) would have probably seen the following quotes from the 3 documents relating to Merrill L...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Economics 02/06/2010: Central bank data analysis

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Latest monthly data from the CB is out and here are a couple of updates on series I've been covering before. First harmonized competitiv...