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The unresolved issues in the bill reportedly included provisions on custodial wallets from the Treasury Department, and concerns from the Securities and Exchange Commission. 251 Total views 24 Total shares Lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives have reportedly pushed back the timeline for considering a bill addressing the potential risks of stablecoins. According […]

President Joe Biden on Monday played down the potential for a U.S. recession, as he responded to questions from reporters following a virtual event on a microchips bill. “God willing, I don’t think we’re going to see a recession,” Biden said. He said the unemployment rate is “still one of the lowest we’ve had in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]