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A Change of Personnel (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In his column for the Western Mail last week Russell Lawson of Federation of Small Business Wales (FSB) wrote about a new Coalition lead by the FSB and includes the Communication Workers’ Union, the New Economics Foundation, the Public Interest Research centre, the National Pensioners Convention and Unite the Union to lobby the Government to set up a Post Bank to be run as part of the Post Office...
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Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland and AIB are paying out bonuses as the year comes to a close after conceding there is no legal way to halt payments to those who earned deferred bonuses based on performance in previous years. It is understood all three banks took legal advice ...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Anne Weatherston has been appointed chief information officer for ANZ Banking Group, reporting to chief executive Mike Smith. Weatherston spent the past four years as Bank of Ireland's group chief information officer and will...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
GARDAÍ ARE questioning two men in connection with the kidnapping of a bank official in Kilkenny city two weeks ago during a botched attempt to rob €3 million from the Bank of Ireland.
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
( EMAILWIRE.COM , November 18, 2009 ) Dallas, TX - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) plunged 14.53% to close at $38.88 after analysts were expecting Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to report earnings of $0.68 for last quarter, but JEC missed expectations with actual earnings of $0.63 which is 5 cents below the consensus estimate. JEC also issued earnings guidance for next quarter that is below...
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Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The rich remain rich and the rest of us are supposed to keep them that way. That’s why we get pay cuts, health cuts, education cuts, job cuts. It’s not as if dipping into the pockets of PAYE workers is the only way to foot bills. A mere 5% of the Irish population own 40% of the wealth. And a tiny 1% own most of it (34%). What pinko fantasist came up with these figures, asks the cynic....
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Brian Lenihan, Ireland's finance minister, is engaged in a dispute with Allied Irish Banks in the first test of new remuneration guidelines for AIB and Bank of Ireland chief executives
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MarketIntelligenceCenter.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Bank of Ireland (IRE) could be on the move today and is now at $9.99, down $0.72 (-6.72%) on volume of 333,755 shares traded. Over the last 52 weeks the stock has ranged from a low of $.66 to a high of $20.18. Bank of Ireland stock has been showing support around $10.11 and resistance in the $11.33 range. Technical...
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Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A former Chief Executive of Bank of Ireland has expressed concern about how the Government's bank rescue body will function. Michael Soden says...
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ValueIreland.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Silent protest from the 24/7 Frontline marchers heading up Molesworth Street now. # Assoc of Garda Sargents and Inspectors heading down now dressed up looking like United Nations/Bank of Ireland employees. # nice little ditty being boomed out now at the 24/7 Frontline protest – "power to the people". Small enough crowd at the protest overall # @conor_pope [...]
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Alarm: clock euro (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan, T.D. have launched the Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity Fund; the 8th fund under Enterprise Ireland's Seed and Venture Capital Scheme 2007-2012. This €26M Fund will invest in start-up and early stage companies, with a focus on export orientated high potential start-up companies that operate in the technology...
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TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
[Ireland] Good news for Irish startups. The Irish government in partnership Bank of Ireland and Limerick University have announced a new €26m fund for Iearly stage companies. The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity Fund will make investments ranging from €100,000 to €500,000 and will target “export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the [...]
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Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
February 2007 will always be seen as a watershed month for Irish banks. It was in this month that residential house prices finally turned downward after years of inexorable inflation. The history of Irish banking should really be broken into two eras – what went before February 2007 and what came after. Since that inflection point, the fallout from lower house prices has mainly been confined...
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Credit Writedowns (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Top brains shun Ireland as smart economy withers – Independent.ie (Science funding is drying up) Bank of Ireland set for state ownership – Independent.ie Discrimination Takes Its Toll On Black Women Nothing But Net: The Physics Of Basketball Free Throws (Two engineers have figured out how best to shoot.) Goldman Sachs boss: ‘bankers do God’s work’ – [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
DUBLIN REPORT: Iseq: 2,965.29 (+41.47) Settlement date: November 10thBANKING STOCKS staged a rally in late trading , with both Bank of Ireland and AIB closing up and pushing the Iseq to outperform the European markets.