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Full coverage: Finance

From banking to brewing: “At some point you have to go all in to make it work – or you’re just dabbling”

Barry O'Neill and his two brothers jettisoned corporate careers to launch a brewery. Less than a decade later, O Brother Brewing is exporting to nine countries and growing at 30% a year. The former banker talks strategy, missteps, and future expansion.

Devin Seán Martin
11th Jul, 2022 - 8 min read

Derek Delaney’s Waystone is quietly headed for $1tn of assets under management. The next step is an IPO

Ireland is emerging as a capital of the fund management company industry, and native Irish businesses are leading the way. Here is Waystone's CEO Derek Delaney on building an Irish financial services giant.

Sean Keyes
13th May, 2022 - 6 min read

“We wore out so much shoe leather trying to raise funds that we thought we’d have to do this ourselves”

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.

Thomas Hubert
11th Apr, 2022 - 8 min read

Moscow and the IFSC: What are the €50bn Russian assets held in Ireland and who owns them?

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.

Thomas Hubert
4th Mar, 2022 - 4 min read

Moscow and the IFSC: How Russia’s largest private bank built up a $4.3bn bond pile in Dublin

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.

Thomas Hubert
16th Feb, 2022 - 5 min read

Vulture, lender, rescuer, aviator: The many faces of Bain Capital’s multi-billion-euro Irish office

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.

Thomas Hubert
27th Sep, 2021 - 32 min read

Evergrande is not China’s Lehman moment – it’s not even close to it

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.

Peter Kinsella
24th Sep, 2021 - 5 min read

Banking as a service: Former BoI executive Nick Fahy’s £35m gamble on a new business model for banking

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

Sean Keyes
24th Sep, 2021 - 5 min read

“Don’t call me a banker”: Bunq’s Ali Niknam on building a unicorn, buying Capitalflow, and taking on the pillar banks

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.

Ian Kehoe
25th Aug, 2021 - 7 min read

In 1985, Dermot Desmond spotted the potential of what we now call e-learning. And it is still paying off

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?

Ian Kehoe
1st Jun, 2021 - 3 min read
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