Ireland’s banks hoping to get their long-awaited shared fraud database up and running will have to keep waiting. Efforts by the Department of Justice to complete the legislative underpinnings for the database in 2025 have not borne fruit. Briefing notes, released through freedom of information, for justice minister Jim O’Callaghan show that the minister told the banks’ representative body in the summer that an internal draft would be ready “by autumn”. That meeting with the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) took place in July, when the banks renewed their pitch for the shared fraud database. The database is a…

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