It has come to the Central Bank of Ireland’s (‘Central Bank’) attention that a fraudulent entity, Patrick Finance Group, operating the website https://www.patrickfinancegroup.com/, has been operating as a retail credit firm in the State in the absence of an appropriate authorisation. This scam is an example of an ‘advanced fee fraud’, where a payment is […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against the clandestine founder of a purported Bitcoin platform and a chain of co-working spaces located in former bars and restaurants, alleging that he bilked investors in both companies while hiding his connection given his checkered past with regulators in the U.K. The SEC alleges that […]
29 May 2018
Press Release
A Financial Stability Note by Vasilis Tsiropoulos examines the vulnerability of mortgaged Irish households to certain financial shocks. It uses loan level data from the five main mortgage lenders in Ireland and considers both point in time vulnerability and forward looking vulnerability against […]
