Thousands of people have family, work or property interests in both Ireland and the UK. Many hundreds of people live in Ireland but work in Northern Ireland or other parts of the UK. Those people will be dealing with payments in both Sterling and Euros on a regular basis. This article looks at opening a […]
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When you open a bank account in Ireland you are routinely asked to provide a PPS number – but do you have to provide one? The PPSN is the number used to identify taxpayers in Ireland . (Full name is the Personal Public Service Number ),This number is issued by the Department of Social Protection […]
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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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