Showing posts with label Irish banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish banks. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

8/1/20: Creative destruction and consumer credit

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My new article for @TheCurrency_, titled "Creative destruction and consumer credit: A Fintech song for the Irish banks" is out. ...
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,...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

16/10/19: Recalling the Celtic Tiger

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Recalling the Celtic Tiger , edited by Brian Lucey, Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien is coming out this week from the series of Reimagining ...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

7/2/19: S&P on Irish Banks Outlook

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S&P on Irish banks outlook for 2019, with my comments included:  https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending...
Friday, September 28, 2018

28/9/18: 10th Anniversary of the Irish Banking Crisis

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Yahoo Finance's Edmund Heaphy on 10th Anniversary of the Irish Bank Guarantee:  https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/destructive-goal-dec...
Monday, November 20, 2017

19/11/17: S&P on Irish Banks & Tracker Mortgages

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S&P Global article on the fate of tracker mortgages scandals in Irish banks (with comments of mine):  https://marketintelligence.spglo...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

17/2/17: European Non-Performing Banks' Loans 2016

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Latest Fitch data shows some significant progress achieved by Ireland in dealing with non-performing loans on banks' balancesheets: ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

19/6/16: Irish Regulators: Betrayed or Betrayers?..

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As I have noted here few weeks ago, Irish Financial Regulator, Central Bank of Ireland and other relevant players had full access to info...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

29/1/16: And the IBRC Interest Overcharging Ship Sails On...

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Just after posting the Mick Wallace video link on Nama ,  a knock on my blog door left this nice little letter at the doorstep. ...
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 ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

24/11/15: Captured Economics and the Victim State

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Per Simon Wren-Lewis: “…Perhaps the problem at the heart of the Eurozone is that economic policy advice in Germany has been effectively ca...
Friday, October 30, 2015

30/10/15: Why Economists Failed & What's Up With Irish Banking Reforms?..

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Earlier this week I gave a small presentation to a group of academics and researchers from Holland on two topics: Why majority of econo...

30/10/15: Repaired Irish Banking: Betting Your House on Corporate Deleveraging

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I have not been tracking more recent changes in Irish banking sector aggregate balance sheets for quite some time now. However, preparing ...
Monday, July 27, 2015

27/7/15: IMF Euro Area Report: The Sick Land of Banking

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The IMF today released its Article IV assessment of the Euro area, so as usual, I will be blogging on the issues raised in the latest repo...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

19/7/15: Ireland's Commitment to Competition in Banking... It's Overwhelming...

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Let's take three stylised facts: Fact 1: Irish Government policy from 2010 on consisted of two contradictory objectives: sector cons...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

16/7/15: Ah Shure, matey, de Banks were Solvent... and Still Are...

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You know the meme... "Banks are/were solvent"... It replays itself over and over again, most recently - well, just now - in the ...
Monday, June 22, 2015

22/6/15: IMF Review of Ireland: Part 2: Banks

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IMF assessment of Irish banking sector remains pretty darn gloomy, even if the rhetoric has been changing toward more cheerleading, less w...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

21/6/15: BankCheck Report into Anglo / IBRC Overcharging

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So here, as promised, the full BankCheck report on Anglo/IBRC overcharging. I provide no comment. You can click on each individual frame to...