Full coverage: Debt

In a major report, we investigate the vulture fund's 52 Irish companies to unveil the property deals, the profits and the tax bills. Using Ireland as a base for aggressive European distressed debt deals, it is also moving into property development in Dublin.

A month-long investigation reveals the inner workings of CarVal’s Irish buying spree – the structures, the discounts, the tax tactics and the profits. It also reveals the ongoing use of the Section 110 tax shelter, with the vulture fund now using it to buy assets all over the world.

To understand how vulture fund Cerberus manages billions of euros’ worth of Irish assets, you must look to Baarn, a small town 45 minutes away from Amsterdam. From there, you will see just how the fund is managing to flatline its tax bill, a two-month investigation by The Currency can reveal.

Between households and indigenous enterprises, Constantin Gurgdiev does the math on the level of income and credit support required to keep the economy on life support during the crisis – and calls for a whole new form of money printing to finance it.

VideoDoc was billed as the next big thing, raising millions from investors and even appointing a former health minister as chair. Now, its assets have been sold for crumbs with liquidators poised to wind up the business. Just what went wrong?

Irish banks should embrace the trend toward higher degree of automation in management of clients' services and accounts, opening up the sector to fintech solutions rather than waiting for them to eat the banks' lunch.

Feted as the racehorse owner behind Cheltenham winner, Kicking King, Dublin businessman Conor Clarkson reaped the rewards of a fortune made in property. Then he lost it all. On the verge of bankruptcy, he was thrown a lifeline. This is the story of how the rescue deal fell apart.

Goldman Sachs, the titan of global finance, has spent more than €8bn buying distressed debt portfolios. Following a two-month investigation, we unlock the structures and the securitisation vehicles used to house its new Irish empire.

The Ardagh Group has been a master of debt. Walking a fine line, it has borrowed and spent its way to the top of its industry. Now the time has come for Ardagh to de-lever, so its owners can have their long-awaited stock market payday.

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.