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Full coverage: Banking

Ian Kehoe meets Brian Hayes: ”The banks are imprisoned by what happened in the past”

Former minister and MEP Brian Hayes has bowed out of politics, preferring a new challenge as chief executive of the Irish Banking and Payments Federation. He talks about his transition to the private sector, fintech, the future of Irish banking and the long shadow cast by the recession.

Ian Kehoe
16th Dec, 2019 - 20 min read

Ian Kehoe: “Talk of cultural change within the Irish banks is a dangerous conceit. Little has fundamentally changed. The same old arrogance persists”

The comments by the head of KBC Bank Ireland’s Belgian parent on tracker mortgages highlighted yet again the lack of cultural change at the upper echelons of banking. Indeed, the actions of the banks give lie to the chatter of cultural rehabilitation.

Ian Kehoe
21st Nov, 2019 - 6 min read

Culture wars and poor financial performance: examining Ireland’s dysfunctional, beleaguered banking system

The financial performance of the Irish banks has been abysmal. Not for the lack of profit margins, but due to strategic decisions to withdraw from lending in the potential growth segments of the domestic and European economies.

Constantin Gurdgiev
18th Nov, 2019 - 7 min read

“I needed to get a job”: How Noel and Valerie Moran started the business that just earned them €266 million

This week, Prepaid Financial Services announced it is to be sold to Australia’s EML Payments for up to €327 million. Sean Keyes met with the founders Noel Moran and his wife Valerie, who started the company in 2007 and could walk away with €266 million.

Sean Keyes
15th Nov, 2019 - 13 min read

The state’s relationship with vulture funds is schizophrenic, amounting to little more than damage limitation

The populist noise surrounding so-called cuckoo funds is merely deflecting attention away from the aggressive tactics being deployed by old-fashioned vulture funds. They are gaming the system, and the state continues blindly selling to them.

Ian Kehoe
23rd Oct, 2019 - 6 min read

From an industrial estate in Tallaght, a debt collector turned vulture fund has launched 1,000 High Court actions

A new flurry of legal proceedings shows Cabot Financial is not finished pursuing borrowers in portfolios it has acquired from, or services on behalf of Irish banks. But who are the vultures operating off Dublin’s Belgard road?

Thomas Hubert
23rd Oct, 2019 - 6 min read

Corporate Currency: Bank of Ireland needs to find a business model. But just what is it?

It’s still undoing mistakes and retreating from bad markets. And its profitability is still being dragged down by tough capital requirements. But in Ireland, it has a chance of success.

Sean Keyes
25th Sep, 2019 - 9 min read
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