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Jul 27
Community-initiated ‘Bitcoin Stackchain’ exceeds $160K in one week

The Bitcoin (BTC) community, or “plebs” as they are affectionately known, are a force to be reckoned with. They banded together in less than seven days to stack over $160,000, or 7 BTC, in a “stackchain.” The so-called stackchain, a portmanteau of the blockchain (Bitcoin’s ledger) and stacking Sats (buying BTC), is a community-driven meme. […]

Jul 27
Twitter shareholders to vote on Elon Musk’s takeover deal on Sept. 13

Twitter Inc. TWTR, +0.25% announced Tuesday that it has scheduled its special meeting at which shareholders will vote on whether to approve Tesla Inc. TSLA, -3.57% Chief Executive Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the company. The meeting will take place Sept. 13. at 10 a.m. Pacific. Twitter has urged shareholders to approve the deal […]

Jul 26
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 […]

Jul 26
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 […]

Jul 26
Challenges and opportunities for a financial services ecosystem in transition – Makhlouf

Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Gabriel Makhlouf spoke this afternoon about current trends in the Irish, German and Eurozone economies, as well as opportunities and challenges in the financial system at an event hosted by the Consulate General of Ireland and IHK Frankfurt, in partnership with Verband der Auslandsbanken in Frankfurt, Europa Union […]

Jul 26
Remarks by Governor Gabriel Makhlouf at Consulate General of Ireland and IHK Frankfurt event

It is a pleasure to address you today. I would particularly like to thank our Consul General Anne-Marie Flynn for organising this event.1 German – Irish economic relationship Ireland and Germany have excellent relations, politically, culturally and economically. These relations have been documented as far back as the 7th century.   When reading about the relationship, […]