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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.

Folllowing up on last week’s annual results announcement, Sean Keyes drills deepers into the Irish-Swiss baking giant’s latest figures.

The markets are continuing to ignore the build up of the new debt bubble. Trouble is looming.

In contrast to their bond brethren, stock investors have continued to be compensated by attractive income flows in return for risking their capital.