Tony McDonnell spent 15 years playing for UCD while building a career in financial services. Now a senior HSBC executive, he believes footballers need more help preparing for the day their playing careers end.
The firm, with about €25bn in assets under management, already has a digital banking business in the UK and is now planning an EU expansion via Ireland.
Beneath the headline profits of banks, insurers, and IFSC firms lies a lesser-known story: over €100bn in accumulated losses that continue to influence corporate tax payments across the financial sector.
Dubliner Marc Hussey, head of JP Morgan in Ireland, emigrated in the 1980s. He discusses his dalliance with retirement, lessons from financing the reconstruction of eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Ireland's transformation.
The late Italian magnate’s legacy reaches into asset-management and life-insurance subsidiaries of the Mediterranean bank Mediolanum, which employs more than 200 staff in Dublin.
Over 15 years on from its €4bn bailout, PTSB is set to leave State control. Its new owner Bawag, Austria's fourth-largest bank, will already be well versed with the Irish market.
Monzo couldn't replicate its UK success in the US. After a disappointing run across the Atlantic, it's hoping Ireland can launch it into the EU market. Will it succeed?
Monzo pursued a U.S. license but withdrew its application in 2021, writes Elena Vardon, The Wall Street Journal.
Keith Ryan was a trusted advisor to some of Ireland’s most accomplished leaders and families, but he never saw them merely as clients—he treated them as friends. His passing came far too soon.
From surviving the Dublin bombings to driving £300,000 in cash across Ireland at 110mph, Peter Coogan has lived a life as dramatic as any thriller — and he’s still fighting for customers in his 80s.
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