Brexit briefing: The known knowns and known unknowns
January 31, 2020 5:35 amWe have now reached a moment of history. Today, at 11.00pm, the UK will leave the European Union, a major... View Article
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Razor thin margins, stretched balance sheets: under the hood of Ireland’s biggest builders
January 30, 2020 6:00 amGeneral contractors — the ones whose names you see on hoardings at the biggest building sites — aren’t exactly builders.... View Article
Sold for $400m: Dublin-based semiconductor company Decawave
January 30, 2020 5:55 amDecawave, a cutting edge chip maker, has been sold for an estimated $400 million to Nasdaq-listed Qorvo. North Carolina-based Qorvo... View Article
Transfers to Afghanistan, Albania, Iraq, Turkey and Syria: How Irish money transfer firm fell foul of French regulator
January 30, 2020 5:30 amKnowing your client is key to anti-money laundering regulations. But a French probe of the Irish arm of American financial... View Article
Anatomy of a carousel fraud: €8 million worth of machinery, an “underworld figure” and a wife “run off the road.”
January 29, 2020 5:15 amIt was Kevin Rabbitte’s 48th birthday. January 8, 2020, was not the ideal time to be preparing a witness statement... View Article
“It’s digital first and that means print second”: Meet the Belgian media executive tasked with reviving INM
January 29, 2020 5:07 amSitting comfortably in a Dublin pub overlooking the River Liffey, Peter Vandermeersch’s first reaction was both emphatic and categoric: No. ... View Article
Dylan Collins: “We did not raise money from Microsoft because we needed capital. But it is a massive signal to the market”
January 28, 2020 5:40 amSeven years ago, Dylan Collins was struggling to sell the potential of his new “kid tech platform” to potential investors... View Article
Petroleum poker: loan blame game, CIA-linked investor and sun-drenched oil fields hold Petrel deal together
January 28, 2020 5:14 amLast Thursday evening, Michel Fayad, a strikingly tall 36-year-old, and Said Mehraik, nearly twice his age and half his height,... View Article
Royal rumble: Bank of Ireland probes former staffer rumoured in the bank to be distant member of the British royal family
January 27, 2020 5:55 amA former member of staff at the centre of an internal review by Bank of Ireland was believed to be... View Article
Auction politics and the economics of elections: Stephen Kinsella talks to Sean Keyes
January 27, 2020 5:42 amWith an election hurdling toward the people of Ireland, The Currency’s Chief Economics Writer Stephen Kinsella recently wrote a piece... View Article
