Financial Regulation: Secrecy and obfuscation still the weapons of choice
The Custom House Capital (CHC) false accounting and fraudulent trading scandal is a very serious matter but, unfortunately, not a rare event in Ireland. What should be of much greater concern to the...
View ArticleDail question on CHC scandal
My local representative, Fine Gael TD David Stanton, has replied to my request for a Dail question on the CHC scandal. Dear Anthony, Thank you for your email below. Just to let you know I tabled the...
View ArticleIreland's banana republic reputation spreads to Australia
Ireland’s banana republic reputation, when it comes to financial regulation, has spread to Australia. It was 2007 when The New York Times dubbed Dublin the wild west of European finance. This was the...
View ArticleDifferent types of white-collar crime
Business manager with Bank of Ireland, William Freeland, has been jailed for four and a half years for stealing €3 million from the bank. Between 2004 and 2009 Freeland set up fake accounts through...
View ArticleOnce again the Financial Regulator fails to regulate
Once again politicians are astonished and shocked that the Financial Regulator has failed to regulate (Irish Independent). Once again the Financial Regulator will face questioning from the shocked and...
View ArticlePatrick Neary: A warped mind-set that is by no means unique
I have reproduced below the full text of an article in today’s Irish Times by Vincent Browne regarding the evidence given by former Financial Regulator, Patrick Neary, during the recent Anglo trial....
View ArticleElaine Byrne and judge Nolan: Clueless regarding the reality of white-collar...
What do corruption expert Elaine Byrne and the Anglo trial judge have in common? Both of them are utterly clueless about the reality of how things are done in our corrupt state. Byrne tells us that our...
View ArticleThe truth about politicians, regulators and bankers
Letter in today’s Irish Times. Sir, There is now no doubt that in the past we got the kind of regulation that our governments and increasingly powerful business lobbyists wanted. The Government...
View ArticleState attacks democracy and Credit Unions
I found myself checking the date today after reading this headline in the Journal. The Central Bank wants to limit how much you can save in a credit union No, it wasn’t April 1st so I concluded it had...
View ArticleVincent Browne: Captured by the bankers
US banking expert Professor Bill Black recently gave evidence at the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry where he pulled no punches. He effectively stated, correctly, that at the time, Ireland was a country...
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