Closure of Clearing House confirms that there won’t be any SEPA deadline extensions
A letter was recently published by the Irish Retail Electronic Payments Clearing Company (IRECC) …
The 5 biggest mistakes that companies will make during SEPA migration
As Europe inches ever closer to the SEPA migration deadline …
SEPA – No Carrot or Stick
Companies are leaving it very late! With only a handful of months to run until the SEPA migration deadline (1st February 2014) …
Irish companies and last-minute SEPA preparations
Despite information campaigns by the Central Bank of Ireland and IPSO it appears that the vast majority of companies have yet to start …
Cyprus bailout – Corporate funds at risk
The powers granted to the Cypriot Central Bank last week give it the authority to convert current account funds into taxable deposits …
Haircuts imposed on Cypriot depositors – ramifications
The ramifications of the terms for the bailout of Cyprus agreed at the weekend will shake the European banking sector …
ECB Lending Survey shows widening bank margins
According to the ECB Euro Area Bank Lending Survey for Q4 2012 average bank margins for Enterprises have widened …
Are you hamstrung by your company’s treasury policy?
I know of many companies that are carrying huge opportunity costs for surplus operating cash because their treasury policies are over simplistic. …
Should Companies have a standby payments bank?
The recent IT failure at RBS has highlighted how close we all are to potentially serious failures within our companies. …
The New Risk – ‘Bank IT’ risk
Having spent my career working in and close to the banking industry, I can only say like many others I have been stunned at the extent of the IT meltdown at RBS. …
