The Central Bank's twice yearly conference call with analysts to discuss its financial stability review is usually a polite affair. But this year, a discussion of Ulster Bank and KBC's exit from Ireland took a turn.
Making deals is more fun than managing a big organisation. That's probably why companies often overpay to get deals done, and why M&A (usually) fails to create value for shareholders.
We often think of innovation as genome editing, flying cars or augmented reality. But it is entirely possible that the most important and radical innovation today could also be the most boring: political and economic innovation of eradicating single point, binary world views.
Boards earn their money in a time of crisis. Yet, as Davy was going through an existential crisis following a Central Bank investigation into a “reckless” bond trade, the board, led by John Corrigan, seemed both underwhelmed and underprepared.
Wales have players Ireland can only dream of, but beyond that there are lessons for the lost decade of Irish football.
The Commission Report into Mother and Baby homes detailed a DNA of cruelty towards mothers and babies" in trouble" that goes back centuries in Ireland, long before our state or the church as we know it.
Phil Mickelson is always the hero of his own stories, but it is too far fetched to imagine that the man who has career earnings of nearly $100 million can win the US Open.
In a month where the G7 rewrote international tax law, Facebook changed international work rules and Stripe automated international tax collection, three new papers hint at how the international workplace of the future might look.
Many seasoned investors might not dispute the attraction of stocks relative to bonds or deposits. But they have grave concerns about the extraordinary landscape since the global financial crisis.
PE has, so far, been able to deliver for investors. It has gobbled up a bigger and bigger share of the economy, involving itself in smaller deals in further-flung places. But there are signs that PE returns are dropping.
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