Yesterday, the Central Bank announced a record €100.5 million fine for Bank of Ireland over its treatment of customers on tracker mortgages. The fine, however, doesn't explain the 9.6 per cent drop in the bank's market value since Wednesday.
Pandemic-hit debt collections have forced the US vulture fund to renegotiate some of its own loans with Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. The worst cases to date have a common denominator: Ulster Bank.
Jacob Claflin is the co-founder and CEO of Cambrist, an Irish fintech start-up focused on optimising foreign transactions for banks. He talks about what brought him to Ireland, his frustration with the payments industry and the company's plan to expand into five new countries in the next six months.
From 1,000 cases in 2019, High Court debt enforcement actions by banks and vulture funds fell to fewer than 200 last year. Who is still suing borrowers in the middle of a pandemic, who is not – and what is coming next?
Professor Pinar Ozcan is an Oxford University expert on innovation and fintech. She sets out why the banks are vulnerable to disruption by fintech, why the fintechs have struggled to capitalise, and why there's an opportunity for a new type of company to step in and dominate the industry.
Irish banks are wasting away, along with the rest of the European banking industry. ECB regulation is a big part of the problem. When banks can't make money from lending, that's bad for shareholders, the economy, and eventually the taxpayer.
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