Day: August 27, 2022

Aug 27
Hetzner anti-crypto policies: A wake-up call for Ethereum’s future

The terms of services, laid down by Ethereum’s second-biggest host Hetzner, prohibits customers from running nodes, mining and farming, plotting, storage of blockchain data and trading. 7465 Total views 47 Total shares Just when the Ethereum ecosystem reached its final stages in preparing for the much-anticipated upgrade, The Merge, german cloud provider Hetzner, reiterated its […]

Aug 27
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Northstate

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 […]

Aug 27
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Allconi Bank Administration Limited

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 […]

Aug 27
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 27
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 27
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 27
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 27
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 27
Hacker tries to exploit bridge protocol, fails miserably: Finance Redefined

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. This past week, there were some major developments in the run-up to the upcoming Ethereum Merge slated for Sept. 15. Bitfinex became the latest crypto exchange to throw its […]

Aug 27
FOMO Fridays: EURAUD Under Water

EURAUD Stands Out During Quiet Week It’s been a much quieter week for financial markets. Though do bear in mind I’m writing this ahead of today’s Jackson Hole event. Given the focus on Fed chairman Powell’s speech today, markets have been somewhat held hostage over the week. Still, there have been some interesting moves and […]