Tagged with: Banking
Ethics and regulation: complements, not alternatives
15/05/2013
Last week former Taoiseach and President of IFSC Ireland, John Bruton, said that the banking industry needed "to focus on ethics rather than regulation". As someone who strongly supports the idea of ethical codes and a more central role for ethics in business, I found this remark and the casual way it was accepted unhelpful on many levels. Ethics …
What's a Euro anyway?
26/03/2013
Is a euro in a Cypriot bank, locked down by withdrawal limits and capital controls, the same as a euro in an Irish or French bank? Is a euro sitting …
Guest post by Arthur Doohan: A perp walk for banks
Arthur Doohan 07/08/2012
Arthur Doohan: We all had a pleasantly salacious time some days ago watching various white-collar villains being hauled before the courts and given …
Guest post by Arthur Doohan: Don't complain - start repairing LIBOR
Arthur Doohan 20/07/2012
Arthur Doohan:LIBOR ‘structurally flawed’ says the ‘Fed’.... Power corrupts...even a little power corrupts quite a lot...as we have seen, …
Guest post by Arthur Doohan: The facts about LIBOR
Arthur Doohan 09/07/2012
Arthur Doohan: Personally, I love a good conspiracy theory even though most of them can’t take a rinse let alone a serious ‘spin-cycle’. But …
Guest post by Martin O'Dea: A simple suggestion
Martin O'Dea 14/06/2012
Martin O'Dea: Forgetting banking debt and its link to sovereign debt and resolutions required around this issue and just dealing with excessive …
New Department of Finance Economics and Banking Divisions
Nat O'Connor 11/05/2012
Nat O'Connor: The Department of Finance has established an Economics Division to focus on economic planning and performance monitoring. (RTÉ report …
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Alicja Bobek has a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Sociology and …
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