The Central Bank of Ireland has completed a review of the support banks, retail credit firms and credit servicing firms provide for borrowers in or facing early arrears.
The Minister for Finance Michael McGrath T.D. travels to Washington D.C. this afternoon, 16 April 2024, for the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, having secured Government approval at this morning’s Cabinet meeting to provide €800 million in financing for international climate action and pandemic preparedness.
Ahead of a week of engagements at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Washington DC, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Gabriel Makhlouf spoke this week at a conference on capital markets and financial stability. Governor Makhlouf, appearing on a panel in conversation with IMF and IOSCO colleagues, said it was
Financial data and research firm PitchBook, today reported that €100 million was invested by venture capital (VC) firms in Irish women founders in 2023. The report also stated that Ireland is the 3rd country in Europe per deal count on a per capita basis for investment in women-led start-ups and has consistently ranked in the […]
Image Courtesy of Workday.com New Jobs in Product and Technology Development Will Help Support Regional Growth and Continued Company Innovation Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that it will create 400 new jobs at its European headquarters in Dublin, growing its workforce in Ireland by 30
The headwinds of COVID-19 have altered nearly all aspects of people’s future across the globe, and have plunged the world’s financial markets into a fast-moving state of disruption and uncertainty. For the financial services industry, the consequences of the pandemic have compressed a decade’s worth of change into less than a year, proving itself the […]
Fintech companies such as Revolut and Luno are experiencing a dramatic surge in demand from customers who are rushing to invest in Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital currencies amid record-breaking and unprecedented cryptocurrency price increases. Fintech app providers that offer crypto trading, like Revolut, eToro, and Luno, are witnessing a sharp rise in demand for
The Web Summit which will be taking place from tomorrow onwards (2nd-4th Dec) welcome key figures from a range of branches of the European Union. One such branch is the European Investment Fund, a specialist provider of risk finance to benefit small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe. It’s part of the wider European Investment […]
As television, radio and print ads will tell you – Black Friday sales are already well underway in many retailers. A US phenomenon which made its way to Ireland after the financial crisis, Black Friday is said to mark the formal start of the Christmas shopping period. Given Covid-19 restrictions, that is likely to be more […]
State-backed agency aiming to support 25,000 businesses and 100,000 workers Skillnet Ireland is aiming to significantly increase support for businesses over the coming years, it has said. The State-backed business support agency currently supports more than 18,000 businesses nationwide, and provides a wide range of learning experiences to 70,000 trainees. It intends to
Donegal County Council and the Donegal Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) are inviting applications for a programme which provides funding to communities in Ireland. The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Mr. Michael Ring TD, announced the launch of the 2020 Community Enhancement Programme (CEP) with initial funding of €2 million nationally in late
