The Central Bank, Consumer Protection Code, states that all financial services providers must provide a potential customer with a writt...

The time value of money is one of the cornerstones of the financial services industry and indeed the investment community. In relation...

The normal DIRT rate will increase from 30% to 33% with effect from 1st January 2013 onwards. The DIRT rate applying to deposit tracker...

I thought it would be worth giving a snap shot of the different term profiles of European debt, Ireland doesn't look as bad as many peo...

We hear a lot about 'risk' and generally have an internalised idea of what it means, but in finance risk can be specific, it isn't just...

In the process of negotiating with banks many of our customers feel various things, like intimidation, fear, confusion and anger. In tr...

Caution: I am not advising that anybody breaks their mortgage contract, or does this, it's just an interesting 'what if' because we are...

Patrick King of Dublin City Chamber and I presented a paper to the Dublin Economics Workshop this year about how we could match a prope...

I often talk about the idea of discounted cashflows in property and how to use it as a valuation tool, Frank Quinn and I have done repo...

I thought the following chart was an interesting visual on how far the mortgage market has fallen since the peak in 2006, draw your own...

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