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Doomed to fail: Irish investors speak out on the cost of Ulster Bank’s British pub deals

At the height of the Celtic Tiger, Ulster Bank marketed investment vehicles concerning English pubs that were being offloaded by their owner. But things soon went badly wrong, and the burned Irish investors are still grappling with the consequences years later

Ian Guider: Be careful of what you read on the side of a bus about crypto

With cryptocurrencies all the rage, thanks to social media and a legion of evangelical followers, what protections are there for those placing trust – and real money – in such unregulated financial products?

Stock markets: Robinhood’s rescue is a rallying call for the rising army of retail traders

When the zero-commission trading app recently went public, it endured a bad first and second day of trading, until an investment by one of Wall Street’s rock stars pushed its capitalisation to almost $57bn – a potential sign of things to come for the stock markets

Central Bank: Ireland could face property ‘fire sale’

New report cites a need to explore possible policy interventions for indebted funds that hold €13.6 billion worth of real estate

Binance suspends Sepa transfers for Irish investors

Irish users of the cryptocurrency exchange, one of the largest in the world, have been blocked from making euro bank deposits

AIB offers €20m to Belfry property investors

Hopes are rising that settlement can be reached in High Court action by 300 investors who lost millions in the Celtic Tiger-era property scheme

Bux Zero targets Irish users with commission-free investing app

Dutch neobroker Bux is launching investing app in Ireland after raising $80 million for its European expansion

Irish investors in collapsed Dolphin Trust owed €50.5m by one company

Myles Kirby, the liquidation specialist overseeing the wind up of MUT103, has requested an update from Dentons, the lawyers tasked with establishing the nature of the security held by Irish investors

Ian Guider: Dolphin Trust scandal shows authorities still too slow to act in investors’ interests

The grey areas that exist in this country regarding unregulated investments need to be tackled before even more of our citizens are taken advantage of

Burned small investors prepare legal action after losing money in Europa

Around 100 private citizens entrusted their pensions – a total of around €4.5 million – to the firm, which later told them their investment was worthless

A token offering: Why the $2.9m sale of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet is only the start of NFTs

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, and the profits made from them, have caused a stir in the arts world. But now the worlds of sport, entertainment and beyond are sitting up and taking notice

‘Distressed’ sale of assets related to Dolphin Trust took place in 2017

Private equity firm Vordere acquired properties from now-bankrupt Dolphin two years before Irish investors alerted to problems with investments worth €107m

Dolphin Trust: ‘I don’t know if it was illegal, but it was certainly immoral’

An investor who put his pension into the pyramid scheme has said it is ‘shocking’ that regulated financial advisers assured him his investment was secure

The gender investment gap: why do women fall behind on money matters?

Many women feel locked out of the investment game due to stereotyping and historical factors. Could that be about to change?