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The Eclective company founded by Paddy McKillen Jr has been under court protection since May this year. The new investor and secured creditor are "effectively in situ” and the business is running, the court heard.

Bondholders are taking over the Irish-founded packaging group, squeezing shareholders including Paul Coulson. The new owners are hoping to pay themselves handsomely, but they must turn the business around first.

Fiscal policies and inflation have changed the way investors consider long-term government debt. Who wins?

The digital bank lends to businesses with a "strong UK nexus", including Irish aparthotel business Staycity, which recently secured a £77m loan. Now its head of debt finance Ben Barbanel tells The Currency why OakNorth has opted to push into the US over the EU.

The €50m fund raise announced by the SME lender this week is backed by a Hamburg credit institution forced to reinvent itself after regulatory investigations.

The former beef executive, who went on his own five years ago, had so far invested his own money in food and hospitality businesses.

Nama and Ulster Bank were the biggest early sellers of non-performing loans to the US vulture fund, along with European banks. With the benefit of hindsight, how do those deals compare?

A decade on from early deals in the UK, the US vulture fund’s tax-efficient Irish subsidiaries have hoovered up bad debt from Germany to Cyprus. But how profitable are they?

Sisu now has 25 cosmetic clinics in Ireland, the UK and the United States. After raising $15m in venture debt, its co-founders explain how the next stage will be to take in private equity backing.

Novellus’s Irish office is driving the growth of the billionaire family’s UK-headquartered finance business. An in-house broker is coming next.