Elizabeth McCaul is no fool. The only American on the supervisory board of the European Central Bank, she has had a long career in finance starting...
About 90pc of household savings is in accounts that pay almost no interest, resulting in a €3.5bn loss to savers. Now, a survey commissioned by price...
The proportion of Irish home buyers opting for fixed-rate mortgage contracts has fallen, possibly in anticipation of further interest rate cuts. The Central Bank’s latest retail...
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Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf has called on Minister for Finance Jack Chambers to stick to the spending rule the Government set in 2021 – but...
Financial services firm is regulated from Lithuania, but ‘would need to obey Irish rules’ The financial services firm, which has an estimated 2.7 million Irish customers,...
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House prices are rising sharply once more. Latest figures show that property prices are currently increasing at an annual rate of about 8 per cent. This...
It would not be prudent to lodge your savings with a digital bank that is not covered by a deposit guarantee scheme. Photo: Getty Q We...
Message is likely to be hammered home in a pre-budget letter to the Government Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf. Photo: Steve Humphreys If Government spending increases...
New figures show the cost of cover for a car rose by 7.4pc in May when compared with last year. It was the ninth consecutive month...
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According to insiders, John Moran’s successful campaign to become Limerick’s and Ireland’s first directly-elected mayor was predicated on three things. First, he convinced voters that it...
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Bank of Ireland has been reprimanded by the Central Bank for a misleading advertisement that appeared in branches and newspapers last year, which erroneously suggested in...
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Having lain dormant since its sale in 2017, the former headquarters of the Central Bank opens for business today as the new flagship location of WeWork’s...