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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 […]
USD GDP On Watch Today’s revised US Q2 GDP figures will be closely watched ahead of Fed chairman Powell’s Jackson Hole speech tomorrow. The initial figures pegged a dire -0.9% reading for the quarter and current forecasts suggest only a mild improvement to -0.7%. While this reading would confirm a technical recession in the US, […]
Oil Traders Re-Build Longs The latest CFTC COT institutional positioning report shows that crude traders increased their net long positions last week from around 210k contracts to roughly 214k contracts. While not a huge increase, the adjustment does at least put an end to the weeks of reductions we’ve seen in upside bets. This change […]