Full coverage: Finance

Having been sucked into the spiral of Nama and vulture funds, Belfast property developers Gareth Graham and Adam Dickson saw the need for another form of lending. This is now their main business – all bootstrapped.

The Central Bank has calculated the Russian exposure of the Irish financial system. While the headline number is huge, it largely represents funds transiting through Dublin from overseas investors – including Russians themselves.

Unlike Russia’s biggest banks, which are state-owned and cut off from western debt markets, Alfa Bank has been using Ireland to raise more and more funds from investors. An investigation by The Currency charts the money trail.

US investment giant Bain Capital has become a dominant force in Irish business over the last seven years. Based on an investigation of more than 700 company documents, this is the story of Bain Capital in Ireland – what it owns, who it has backed, and what is coming next.

Is the Chinese property giant headed for a technical default on some of its international debt? Yes. Is this the first domino in a new international financial crisis? No. Here is why.

Former Bank of Ireland executive Nick Fahy is building a hybrid business bank, with customer-facing staff backed up by Google’s AI technology.

Ali Niknam’s challenger bank Bunq has just acquired Irish alternative lender Capitalflow. In an exclusive interview, the entrepreneur talks about launching his own bank, why regulation favours the incumbents and his plans for the Irish market.

An Isle-of-Man company controlled by Dermot Desmond has received a €15m dividend from Intuition. So, just what does Intuition do, and how much money is it making?

The company sitting at the apex of the Abbey Capital structure has €161 million of cash, €216 million of equity and barely any debt. How did the Irish alternative fund manager become so successful so quietly? Market analysis and company filings reveal some of its secrets.

In 2015, Tom Lyons exposed a startling deal involving Davy Stockbrokers and a client over Anglo bonds. Following a damning Central Bank investigation into the scandal last week, we have continued to focus on the deal and the Davy executives behind it. This is a portal to all our coverage.