Transferring money between Ireland and the UK is fairly common now for many people. The money could be for University Fees , House Purchases, Inheritance , Pensions or other Income.If you need to transfer money between banks in Ireland and the UK it might seem easier to just ask your own bank to take care […]
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Transferring Money Outside Ireland If you have amounts of more than €3000 to exchange and transfer to an overseas bank – you will usually get better rates from using specialised currency brokers instead of your own bank. If you are planning on making a large transfer of currency – this is probably one of the […]
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When the Irish banking crisis began – many of the 500,000 people in the UK with savings in the UK Post Office were probably getting worried about the safety of their deposits. This is because the savings accounts offered by the Post Office in the UK are operated by The Bank of Ireland . At […]
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Usually when you take out a tracker mortgage it is set for life at a base rate plus a specific margin or differential. In the “good old days” the banks here in Ireland were handing out trackers with rates as low as ECB rate plus 0.5% . People lucky enough to get one of those […]
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AIB announced in the spring that as part of it’s restructuring and cost cutting exercise it was closing down it’s offshore operations – AIB International. The original target date for winding up of operations was the end of December 2013 – but things have moved faster than planned and by the end of this year, […]
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