Tagged: ireland

July 13, 2024 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland has announced the establishment of a new division – Wealth and Insurance. Bank of Ireland’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Davy (Wealth and Capital Markets) and New Ireland Assurance, will be part of this new division. The Wealth and Insurance division will be “led… Read More

July 10, 2024 @ 11:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After a “record breaking” 3-night run at the Aviva Stadium that left concert goers still trying to ‘Shake Off’ the Taylor Swift effect, the latest Bank of Ireland Spending Pulse analyzing debit and credit card spending reveals the economic impact of her visit. Analyzing 27th… Read More

June 30, 2024 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), and Pearl Property Managers Limited (Pearl) have launched a new fund with an initial value of €55 million that will grow in the future, and support the delivery of more than 2,500 new homes over the… Read More

June 26, 2024 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Ireland has entered a new Enviroflex partnership with Aurivo Co-op. Sustainability-linked loans now available to members of leading agribusiness, according to the update from the Bank of Ireland. As mentioned in a blog post, the Bank of Ireland has formed a new… Read More

June 18, 2024 @ 1:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG Enterprise Barometer 2024 unveils optimism and ambitious growth among Ireland’s indigenous businesses, with nearly two-thirds (65 percent) expecting to increase turnover within the next 12 months, compared to 55 percent in 2023. On behalf of KPMG, RED C surveyed nearly 200 decision-makers “in indigenous… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com, which claims to be “trusted” by more than 100 million customers worldwide and the firm focused on regulatory compliance, security and privacy, announced that it has received approval as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) from the Central Bank of Ireland. This approval follows… Read More

June 5, 2024 @ 10:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HPS (CSE: HPS), a global provider of payment software and solutions, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire CR2, a digital banking and payments software company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. This strategic transaction underscores HPS’s commitment “to enhancing its digital banking and… Read More

May 28, 2024 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance, an online lender serving Irish SMEs, says it has topped €300 million in loans since its launch. The funding has supported over 4200 smaller firms. For 2024, Linked Finance predicts that it will lend, on average, €115,000 per borrower hitting over £80 million… Read More

May 20, 2024 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

While sharing insights at the European Anti-Financial Crime Summit, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Derville Rowland said: “The commitment of European leaders to introduce a single rulebook for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and the creation of a new European AML supervisory and financial… Read More

May 6, 2024 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority (85%) of consumers know what they need to do to be more energy efficient and the same proportion (84%) believe they are making efforts to achieve this, according to EcoSaver research commissioned by Bank of Ireland with Red C. While the vast majority… Read More

April 8, 2024 @ 2:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

EY announces the launch of a new Sustainable Finance Innovation Hub in Dublin to help financial institutions around the world accelerate their efforts to meet their environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulatory and reporting requirements. EY Ireland’s existing financial services sustainable finance team “will more… Read More

March 26, 2024 @ 11:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2023 was a challenging year for the Irish FinTech market, with investments and transactions reaching $60.83 million across 11 deals; this was a significant decrease (94 percent) compared to last year, where investments and transactions totaled over $1 billion across 22 deals, according to the… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Ireland has reportedly shared a new multi-year payments strategy following concerns that banking institutions are not actually taking advantage of the opportunities made available through instant payments. While at the BPFI National Payments Conference, Vasileios Madouros, the Deputy Governor, Central Bank… Read More

February 20, 2024 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Linked Finance has partnered with the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) to lend up to €50 million to Irish SMEs. The loans are said to be issued at a discounted rate. Linked Finance is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform serving smaller firms in Ireland…. Read More

February 6, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DailyPay has chosen Northern Ireland for its expansion outside the United States in a key investment that is reportedly creating 293 new roles. The Fintech claims it is an industry leader focused on on-demand pay technology that empowers workers with greater choice and more control/flexibility… Read More

February 1, 2024 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland has announced an investment of more than €60 million in a range of branch improvements, including the Bank’s largest single investment in ATMs in the last decade. Starting later this year, a new fleet of ATMs will “be rolled out to all… Read More

January 31, 2024 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Dublin-based Fenergo has been selected by the Centralis Group to improve its client and investor onboarding process. Fenergo is a company that provides “Client Lifecycle Management” (CLM) solutions, including Know your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) services. Fenergo offers a regulatory-compliant service for onboarding and… Read More

January 29, 2024 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland credit and debit card data for the first two weeks of January reveals that ‘New Year, New You’ spending in gyms and sports clubs shot upwards “compared to last January.” As noted in the update shared by the Bank of Ireland, many… Read More

January 26, 2024 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fenergo, the provider of digital solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC), Transaction Monitoring and Client Lifecycle Management (CLM), has appointed Andrew Brandman as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Based in New York, Andrew will drive global growth by “continuing to deliver successful outcomes for Fenergo’s growing and… Read More

December 28, 2023 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland credit and debit card data for the first two weeks of December revealed that spending levels rose nationwide compared to the same period in 2022. Cavan shoppers engaged in “the biggest pre-Christmas splurge, with spending in the county rising by 11% during… Read More