24 Mar Devil in the detail in debt write downs (this article appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 23rd of March) The banks are starting to write down debt. Should we be sur... Continue reading
RTE Morning Edition: Anthony Murnane speaks to Enda Leahy and Karl Deeter 12/03/14 Anthony Murnane was presenting RTE's 'Morning Edition' on the 12th of March and had The Mail On Sunday assistant editor Enda Leahy and ... Continue reading
06 Mar Getting through the heavy lifting of debt mediation, one result at a time We had another successful outcome with a lender and thought that it might be worth describing in terms of how it came about and how it ... Continue reading
19 Feb We don’t have recourse to the FSO, wholesale repossessions & other IBRC myths The hype-machine is in full throttle on the sale of the former INBS loans. The fear being that some large evil hedge-fund is out there ... Continue reading
11 Feb NAMA can’t ‘opt in’ to regulation Something that has been circulating of late is that if NAMA buy the Irish Nationwide (subsumed into IBRC) loan book that they will foll... Continue reading
11 Feb Could the new AIB split mortgage be illegal? In the Sunday Business Post yesterday an article appeared which explained the new AIB split mortgage deal. We sought details of this fr... Continue reading
How does a mortgage holder get a writedown when banks sell their loan? Tonight on RTE's Primetime they are going to cover the dilemma some IBRC mortgage holders (residential mortgage holders from both Irish... Continue reading
06 Feb Details of the new AIB debt write-down scheme The information available at present is limited and the only thing we were able to obtain in terms of hard fact is that people on track... Continue reading
16 Jan The Expert Group on Repossessions: condensed themes We tried to put the main themes behind the 60 pages of the report (minus appendices) into a 1,000 word condensed version. To begin wit... Continue reading
15 Jan Repossession statistics in Ireland, consider the numbers With the new report on repossessions out it is probably a good idea to look at some of the actual statistics. Many commentators mistake... Continue reading