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AIB

Happily, it isn’t just the suits at troubled foreign corporations who are feeling the need to get away from it all. The Sunday Independent reports dozens of wealthy bankers enjoyed a lavish junket to Ascot last week.

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MASTERCARD

Despite the ongoing recession, there is clearly plenty of momentum left in plastic. The Sunday Tribune reports that Mastercard wants to introduce a debit card into Ireland and are in talks with the two big banks on the issue.

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SME FUNDING

Three of the four banks receiving funding for loans to small business from the European Investment Bank have still not placed all the money more than a year after getting it, The Sunday Tribune reports.

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ANGLO TO PREDICT LOAN DEFAULT

Anglo Irish Bank is looking for a new computer system to predict the probability of customers defaulting on their debts, The Sunday Business Post reports in an article that may lead many people to believe this is a leftover piece from its April 1 edition.

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BANK FUND TO SUPPORT NEW BUSINESS

Allied Irish Banks is to set up a new €500 million fund to increase the flow of credit to small businesses. Representatives of AIB, Bank of Ireland and Anglo Irish Bank met the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation,

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HALIFAX & THE REVENUE

Halifax is closing its current account business from June 18th 2010. All Revenue On-line Service customers with such accounts should ensure that their ROS Debit Instructions have been amended to reflect their new current account details prior to that date.

ROS Debit Instructions can be amended on line by selecting the Complete/Amend/Download an RDI link on the ROS “My Services” page.

In case of difficulty, contact ROS Payment Support Unit at rospayments@revenue.ie

THE BANKER & THE SME

It would appear banks are taking a novel approach to credit control – they may claim to be making it easier to obtain loans but in reality they are dissuading businesses from even applying for them.

Kevin Ryan, chief executive of Broadband Ireland, says the banks are cutting him and other small businesses off at the pass when it comes to lending, according to a report in The

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FINGLETON’S GIFT TO CHARITY

Michael Fingleton, the former boss of the beleaguered Irish Nationwide Building Society, made most of the Sunday papers. In what the Sunday Independent called “a dramatic development”, a close associate of

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