Full coverage: Fintech

R3’s Dublin office primarily worked on digital currencies and that side of the business has been sold off to the Central Bank of UAE with further “reduction” in the Irish operation coming.

For a country that built one global industry out of aircraft that rarely land here, the idea that its next significant leasing business might be in orbit should no longer feel out of this world.

Fintech veterans Graham Byrne and David Crimmins have secured €5m in backing from Santiago Capital and are closing a €500,000 seed round. Having started in Ireland, they plan to go to Europe.

Zen Pensions launched its fully-digital pension product to the Irish market last month but the company also has designs on international markets. CEO Ailish Dooley and chair Conor O'Neill discuss setting up in Ireland, expansion, and breaking even.

Neil Hosty, the chief executive of the Co Kerry financial exchange business, talks international expansion, acquiring the bureau de change arm of the British grocery chain, and why Ireland should be cautious around recreating France's start-up campus Station F.

CreditLogic has raised €8.5m to date and is now expanding into Spain, Greece and Italy. Its co-founder Eddie Dillon explains how his company wants to change how banks originate mortgages to SME loans.

Several former staff of Digisure (Ireland) Ltd took workplace relations cases against the company over unpaid wages. The fintech had pledged to backpay wages as held-up funds were released to the company.

The British asset management fintech firm has been laying the groundwork in Dublin for the last three years. It is now generating revenue and growing out the Irish office.

London's financial giants have entered a new phase in their approach to European markets as Britain starts to diverge from Brussels. Ireland must be ready to cement its position as the bloc's leading financial centre.

QPQ Limited alleges an investor stole its code and poached its talent. Lawyers’ letters over a separate criminal case in Switzerland have added a new twist to the dispute.