First Citizen Finance, the Irish non-bank consumer finance firm that has been weighing up entering the mortgage market, is nowChief executive Chris Hanlon said last December that the group, which focuses on car finance, agriculture and SME equipment lending, and commercial property, was in talks with overseas financial backers on potentially venturing into mortgage lending. Joe Brennan reports.
Research carried out for next week’s Talent Summit conference in Dublin found that more than one third of staff at the companies surveyed have , due to high levels of job switching during the pandemic to remote roles or positions that still being carried out from home. Mark Paul has the details.Eoin Burke-Kennedy warns us that we are about to experience the pandemic’s legacy of rent arrears and zombie businesses.of a repeat of last year’s €46 billion of Irish cross-border mergers and acquisition deals, according to corporate law firm Philip Lee, writes Joe Brennan.