11/03/2010 - New figures from the Central Bank show that at the end of January, Irish residents - mostly companies and institutions - had an outstanding debt of €1.1 trillion.
10/03/2010 - The Central Bank today (March 10 2010) published new statistics on securities issued by entities resident in Ireland. The new dataset contains information on the outstanding amount of debt and equity ...
03/03/2010 - The latest data on private residential mortgage arrears and repossessions, published today by the Financial Regulator, confirms that forbearance by mainstream lenders is assisting distressed homeowner...
26/02/2010 - The Irish Banking Federation (IBF) welcomes the establishment by Government of an expert group to examine the issue of mortgage and consumer debt and to make appropriate policy recommendations.
26/02/2010 - Revenues fell sharply from international financial services companies last year, as business was again affected by the ongoing turmoil in financial markets, while losses carried forward from 2008 redu...
15/02/2010 - The Minister for Finance, Mr. Brian Lenihan T.D., announced today that he is nominating Mr. Eoin Ryan for the position of Alternate Director on the Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and De...
11/02/2010 - Steps to facilitate the development of Islamic finance in Ireland are included in the Finance Bill
04/02/2010 - The Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan T.D. today (4th February, 2010) published the Finance Bill 2010 which gives effect to the taxation measures announced in last December's Budget. The Minister sa...
04/02/2010 - Financial Services Ireland (FSI), the IBEC group that represents the IFSC, today welcomed measures in the Finance Bill that support the financial services sector, in particular the extension of the re...
03/02/2010 - The Minister for Finance, Mr. Brian Lenihan T.D., announced his intention to delegate additional functions in the banking area to the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA).
02/02/2010 - Hypo Real Estate has applied to the German authorities to dump up to €210bn of assets into a 'bad bank' -- mainly made up of portfolios from its Dublin-based Depfa bank unit
29/01/2010 - The Minister for Finance, Mr. Brian Lenihan T.D., today announced the appointment of Mr. Klaus Regling to conduct one of the preliminary investigations into the crisis in our banking system. Mr Regli...
29/01/2010 - The European Central Bank (ECB) is today publishing its report on the results of the January 2010 bank
lending survey for the euro area. The bank lending survey was developed by the Eurosystem in ord...
22/01/2010 - IBEC, the group that represents Irish business, today said that new CSO trade figures highlight the very challenging trading environment in which Irish exporters are operating, but said that 2010 shou...
21/01/2010 - The Financial Regulator published a warning notice on two firms: Equities Europe (Ireland) and Olta Capital Management Inc. (Ireland and Luxembourg), which are not authorised as investment firms in Ir...
07/01/2010 - Barclays Capital warn that the European Banking investment sector may face decline in profitability in 2010 of up to 20%
07/01/2010 - The latest Central Statistics Office figures estimate the foreign debt of Irish companies and households to be in the region of €25bn.
06/01/2010 - Recent statement by Mr Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank & Financial Services Authority of Ireland, to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Economic Regulatory Affairs
06/01/2010 - Tax changes to the Finance Bill may help Ireland become EU funds centre.
22/12/2009 - Latest Review shows at least three-quarters on average of all SME credit applications approved.
Confirms a continuing reduction in the demand for credit by SMEs - 23% fall in the number of applicat...