Day: June 28, 2022

Jun 28
Tether CTO refutes stablecoin FUD as short-sellers circle

Tether chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino has confirmed that the stablecoin Tether (USDT) has been the subject of a “coordinated attack” by hedge funds looking to short-sell the United States dollar-pegged crypto asset.  Speaking to his 151,600 Twitter followers on Monday, the Tether executive was responding to reports that hedge funds have been borrowing millions […]

Jun 28
Woman-led customer relationship company Front draws $1.7 bln valuation in Salesforce-led funding

Front said Tuesday it raised $65 million in a Series D financing round that values the software-as-a-service company in the customer relationship business at $1.7 billion. Salesforce Inc.’s Salesforce Ventures unit led the financing, along with Battery Ventures. PagerDuty Inc. PD, -2.60% CEO Jennifer Tejada, Sequoia Capital, Threshold Ventures and Uncork Capital also paid undisclosed […]

Jun 28
Monetary policy and financial stability

A key part of the Central Bank’s role is the maintenance of monetary and financial stability. Our work on the first of these is primarily done through monetary policy set for the euro area by the ECB’s Governing Council.  And here in Ireland we set out our views on the key risks to financial stability […]

Jun 28
Individual accountability – a maturing of financial regulation – Speech by Gerry Cross, Director of Financial Regulation: Policy and Risk, at Arthur Cox Client Seminar

  Speech to Arthur Cox Client Seminar, 23 June 2022 Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to be here. Many thanks to Arthur Cox for inviting me to speak with you today. The focus of my remarks is the new Individual and Senior Executive Accountability framework which will come into effect next year1.  I will […]

Jun 28
Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. reprimanded and fined €83,300,000 by the Central Bank of Ireland for regulatory breaches affecting tracker mortgage customers

On 22 June 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) reprimanded and fined Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. (“AIB” or the “Firm”) €83,300,000 pursuant to its Administrative Sanctions Procedure (“ASP”) for a series of significant and long-running failings in the treatment of its tracker mortgage customers holding 10,015 mortgage accounts between August 2004 and […]

Jun 28
EBS d.a.c. reprimanded and fined €13,400,000 by the Central Bank of Ireland for regulatory breaches affecting tracker mortgage customers

On 22 June 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) reprimanded and fined EBS d.a.c. trading as EBS (“EBS” or the “Firm”) €13,400,000, pursuant to its Administrative Sanctions Procedure (“ASP”) for a series of significant and long-running failings in the treatment of its tracker mortgage customers, holding 2,830 mortgage accounts, between August 2004 […]

Jun 28
Second Employers’ Liability, Public Liability and Commercial Property Insurance Report of the NCID published

Report provides key statistics on employers’ liability, public liability, and commercial property insurance in Ireland; including data on claims costs and settlement channels. On average, employers’ liability and public liability claims settled through litigation cost more and take longer to settle than claims settled directly or via the PIAB. Insurers’ income and expenditure on Employers’ […]

Jun 28
Central Bank contacts business groups regarding Financial Sanctions obligations

The adoption of sanctions places legally binding obligations on all individuals and entities The Central Bank is sharing information with business representatives regarding individual and firm-level obligations Sanctions breaches must be reported to An Garda Siochana Against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the introduction of EU Regulations relating to financial sanctions, the […]

Jun 28
Central Bank calls on firms to prevent IBAN discrimination

IBAN discrimination is an issue across Europe as more firms offer financial services cross border The Central Bank has contacted regulated firms and business representative bodies in Ireland to reinforce all organisations’ responsibilities under SEPA Supporting consumer choice to choose a provider with a non-Irish IBAN is important as Ulster Bank and KBC exit the […]

Jun 28
Compass Mining loses facility after allegedly failing to pay power bill

Bitcoin (BTC) mining hardware and hosting company Compass Mining has lost one of its Maine-based hosting facilities after the owner, Dynamics Mining, terminated the hosting agreement between the two, claiming Compass failed to pay the required bills. Late on Sunday, Dynamics tweeted a letter on Twitter it sent to Compass Mining which stated as of […]