Ian Kehoe

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Ian Kehoe

Governments are a lot like families. The way they succeed is very often the same, and the way they fail is very often unique. We expect governments to deliver on the priorities for which they were elected, and success is judged on the degree to which delivery occurs. The public mind is a savvy one. It understands many promises are not going to be kept for a variety of reasons. In general, however, a government elected to create jobs will be judged on whether it actually created those jobs.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Ian Kehoe

Founded in 2015, Kestrel Capital offers bespoke services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and companies. The investment management and financial planning firm also has a lucrative niche advising charities, foundations and retirement plans. All told, the Dublin financial firm, led by John Crowe, Danny McGinley and Kenny Hope has assets under management of more than €1 billion.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Ian Kehoe

Ross Hunt qualified as an accountant and spent four years working in the audit team at BDO. But, at heart, he was always an entrepreneur, co-founding the Irish agtech firm Cainthus in 2015. His role with that company was multifaceted. And the more responsibilities fell upon his desk, the more he realised there had to be a better option for one key task: bookkeeping. That frustration was the genesis of Outmin, an Irish start-up that believes it can automate bookkeeping – entirely.

1 week ago | thecurrency.news | Ian Kehoe

“Throughout history, the moneylenders have always been viewed with suspicion,” Jeff Yass told a student group dedicated to the promotion of free markets in 2021. “When you’re against finance, you’re fundamentally against all human progress.” Yass is a founder of Susquehanna International Group, the trading and securities giant. A 2024 profile by The Financial Times found that, on a given day, Susquehanna’s gross exposure across all its long and short positions is upward of half a trillion dollars.

2 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Ian Kehoe

It was difficult not to dwell upon the old legal maxim, “justice delayed is justice denied”, on Wednesday when the written decision of the regulatory inquiry into Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS) was finally published. After all, it is now closing in on 15 years since the state bailed out the troubled lender, and 14 years since it was merged with Anglo Irish Bank, another buccaneering property lender that collapsed amidst its own hubris.