Full coverage: Finance

While exploring the tech industry for the Mapping Multinationals series, Thomas Hubert had to adjust from the real world to understand the sheer volume of financial flows he was looking at. His reporting highlights the need for increased corporate transparency requirements.

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.

Last Wednesday was the funeral of a great Irish-American whose story is little known. An investment banker who was near the top of the legendary Allen & Co, Walter O'Hara Jr was a champion of American investment in Ireland who had many links to here.

Starting with a tax refund business, Fexco has built a global financial services empire. However, it fears new rules arising from Brexit could have adverse consequences, and it is now asking government to remedy it.

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.

Led by Germany, core EU countries are preparing to tax equity trading. Yet research shows that to reinforce financial stability, policy should instead encourage equity investment and tax debt.

Former minister and MEP Brian Hayes has bowed out of politics, preferring a new challenge as chief executive of the Irish Banking and Payments Federation. He talks about his transition to the private sector, fintech, the future of Irish banking and the long shadow cast by the recession.

This week, Prepaid Financial Services announced it is to be sold to Australia’s EML Payments for up to €327 million. Sean Keyes met with the founders Noel Moran and his wife Valerie, who started the company in 2007 and could walk away with €266 million.

Brian Winters worked on the ground in Ireland for Craven House Capital, helping source and close deals. Now, just months after stepping down as company secretary of the quoted British investment house, the Irish lawyer is suing the firm in the High Court.

Ronan Reid led Dolmen Stockbrokers through boom and bust, before selling it to Cantor Fitzgerald. In this interview he talks about the journey. However, he also speaks about the sad death of his wife Karen, and how it forced him to question the balance of building a business and raising a family.