Day: August 24, 2022

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that fraudulent entities have been operating as investment firms / investment business firms in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations. In multiple instances, the fraudulent entities cloned and impersonated a legitimate Central Bank authorised firm in order to deceive […]

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that a scam entity by the name Northstate (Commonwealth of Dominica), formerly operating the website www.northstate.io, has been claiming to be an investment firm / investment business firm in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations. A list of unauthorised […]

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that Allconi Bank Administration Limited (Ireland) – https://www.allconi-bank.eu.com (no longer in operation) – has been holding itself out as a banker in the State in the absence of an appropriate authorisation. A list of unauthorised firms published to date is available […]

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that a fraudulent entity has been operating as an insurance / reinsurance firm in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations.  In this instance, the fraudulent entity cloned and impersonated a legitimate Central Bank authorised firm in order to deceive […]

The Central Bank of Ireland has engaged with financial services firms to reinforce its consumer protection expectations of all regulated firms that also operate as Direct Debit originators (DDOs). This follows a review of plans submitted from the financial services firms that are amongst the top 20 DDOs in Ireland, which set out the measures they […]

The Central Bank of Ireland welcomes today’s publication of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022. The Central Bank will continue to work with the Department of Finance throughout subsequent stages as the legislation progresses through the Oireachtas to enactment. Once the Bill has been enacted the Central Bank intends to publicly consult on […]

At last week’s meeting of the ECB’s Governing Council, we decided to increase our main policy rate by 50 basis points.  This continues the normalisation of our monetary policy, a path that we had started to travel on last December. Our aim is to dampen the inflationary pressures that we’re seeing in the euro area […]

U.S. stocks finished modestly higher Wednesday, with all three major stock benchmarks ending a 3-session skid, as investors picked up shares after a sharp market selloff earlier this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.18% rose about 61 points, or 0.2%, ending near 32,970, while the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.29% closed up 0.3% […]

EURUSD, “Euro vs US Dollar” Having completed the descending wave at 0.9900, EURUSD is consolidating above this level. Possibly, the pair may grow to reach 1.0055 and then resume falling with the target at 0.9800. GBPUSD, “Great Britain Pound vs US Dollar” After finishing the descending wave at 1.1717 and forming a new consolidation range […]

EURUSD remains under parity and raises a lot of questions. The major currency pair continues to fall. The current quote for the instrument is 0.9948. Demand for the “greenback” as a “safe haven” asset is not calming down, and it’s quite clear why: investors are still concerned about the possibility of a global recession. Macroeconomic […]