We were delighted to work with Irish Debate on doing a mortgage show, we have been big fans of theirs for a long time so it is especial...

The Mudaraba contract is essentially a contract partnership in Islamic Finance, the Prophet (PBUH) forbid riba or interest, and for tha...

The government will be hard pressed to decide who to squeeze next, if you go after the poor (which we take to be people earning less th...

We are anaesthetized from outrage at this point when it comes to Anglo Irish Bank (or if you are a eurosceptic who doesn't understand a...

Irish banks are caught in a perfect storm of funding costs versus lending costs which spells bad value for consumers. This is clearly s...

The Sunday Times had an interesting article by Niall Brady which was pointing out the arbitrage that the consumer could have between re...

There were many innocent parties to the credit fuelled property bubble, they are generally those who didn't borrow, or who carried no d...

There is concept in finance of a 'risk free rate', and normally that is seen as being the rate of return on money by a sovereign entity...

Banks deny that they are cherry-picking applications and brokers say otherwise. What I can say is that we are going through a credit ad...

One of my favourite tools is that of the Yield Curve, in the US they look at the Treasury Curve and the TED (Treasury/EuroDollar), in I...

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