Day: August 24, 2022

Aug 24
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm –   Fraudulent entity clones authorised firm Great American International Insurance (EU) DAC

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 […]

Aug 24
Central Bank reinforces consumer protection expectations of regulated financial firms providing Direct Debit services

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 […]

Aug 24
Statement on the publication of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022

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 […]

Aug 24
Fiscal policy and planning for resilience

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 […]

Aug 24
Higher real income growth, reduced spending and precautionary savings contributed to significant increase in Irish household deposits during the pandemic

Central Bank Economic Letter finds that, while household deposits increased across all euro-area countries during the pandemic, Irish deposit growth was among the highest, exceeded only by Baltic countries. Unlike Ireland, these countries had very high pre-pandemic deposit growth, marking the Irish experience as exceptional. While the virus and related restrictions reduced spending, a higher […]

Aug 24
Daily Market Outlook, August 24, 2022

Daily Market Outlook, August 24, 2022 Overnight Headlines World At Rising Risk Of Recession As Inflation Hits Consumers Goldman Sees Powell Sticking To July Tightening Message At JH US Dollar Pauses For Breath Wednesday Ahead Of Jackson Hole Bitcoin Weakened After Slipping Back Beneath 21,500 Level Fed’s Kashkari: His Biggest Fear Is Inflation Will Be […]

Aug 24
Market Spotlight: EURUSD Hits Lowest Level in 20 Years

With the USD seeing a fresh wave of demand, EURUSD has fallen to its lowest level in over 20 years with the pair now back under parity for the second time this year. Soaring inflation in the eurozone, made worse by the relentless rise in gas prices, is threatening to send the eurozone into recession […]

Aug 24
New fix for curse of Impermanent Loss proposed on Avalanche

Avalanche-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Trader Joe claims it may have found a way to mitigate one of DeFi’s biggest weaknesses — impermanent loss.  In a newly released whitepaper on Aug. 23 called the JOE v2 Liquidity Book, authored by Quant developers and researchers Adam Sturges, “TraderWaWa”, “Hanzo” and software engineer “Louis MeMyself”, the developers […]

Aug 24
Nearly half of US adults say their crypto punts are worse than expected: Survey

Amid the ongoing crypto winter, new data from a Pew Research Centre survey has shown that 46% of adult crypto users in the United States are seeing lower than expected returns on their crypto investments. The survey gathered responses from over 6,000 randomly-selected adults across the United States, with panelists participating in self-administered web surveys. […]

Aug 24
Live Cattle Futures (LE1!), H4 Potential For Bullish Rise

Type: Bullish Rise Key Levels:Resistance: 144.475Pivot: 141.150Support: 138.225 Preferred Case:On the H4, with price moving above the ichimoku indicator and along the ascending trendline , we have a bullish bias that price will rise from the pivot at 141.150 where the pullback support is to the 1st resistance at 144.475 in line with swing high […]