Guotai Haitong Securities was formed last year but the long-running business model of Haitong’s Irish subsidiary “is no longer the group’s strategy for operations in Ireland”.
The EU’s new foreign-investor screening rules have largely been centred on managing Chinese investment in Europe’s critical sectors but China is a smaller player in the Irish context.
Taoglas CEO Dermot O’Shea talks to The Currency about investigating how its parts were illicitly re-routed by bad actors to Russia, managing the fallout and moving on with its newest deal.
Government support encompasses the old, the new, goods and services, micro and macro. Nothing Trump elicits in China will change this., writes Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal.
China’s Amazon rival is joining the likes of Shein and Temu in setting up Irish outposts after it launched its new Joybuy brand in Europe. It plans to hire 30 people.
Government pours money into AI, electric cars and military power, while consumer confidence sags and job market grows bleak, writes Brian Spegele, The Wall Street Journal.
Chinese but Irish-based lessor CALC continues its quarrel with Willis Lease Finance over an engine deal gone awry – questions abound about damage to the engine and when it was returned.
U.S. and allies turn to tech, patrols and new routes to defend crucial underwater infrastructure against Russia and China, writes Mike Cherney, The Wall Street Journal.
In recent months, the Chinese firm gradually reduced its headcount in Dublin with rounds of cuts. The last handful of employees were informed of redundancies in January.
Beijing has quashed drinking at official events, the latest blow to a once-booming wine market, writes Jon Emont, The Wall Street Journal.
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