Carin Bryans, senior country officer and CEO of JP Morgan Bank Ireland, has been named as American Chamber of Commerce Ireland's new President for 2020

In the wake of controversies at county level, Kilmacud Crokes member and senior investment banker, Joan Kehoe, says grassroots GAA needs governance reform, writes John Fogarty.

Sterling continued to fall against the dollar and the euro after prime minister Boris Johnson brought back the prospect of a hard Brexit at the end of 2020.

Club Players Association (CPA) executive member Liam Griffin claims the body was “never welcomed” by the GAA.

The head of the business group that represents truckers has warned that final Brexit negotiations face another cliff edge next summer if any transition deal is not extended.

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) boosted its profit forecast for the year after posting better-than-expected quarterly earnings on stronger prescription sales of its psoriasis treatment Stelara and cancer drug Imbruvica.

I’ll say this much for the folks at WeWork. They have been pretty good at talking up their product.

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to ram home hard Brexiteer policy by playing with the House of Commons rules, writes Eddie Hobbs

Hedge funds are betting against the euro on the prospect of the ECB boosting its easy-money policy at its gathering next month.

Kellogg beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly sales and profit, boosting the food maker’s shares over 9% as investments in marketing and product development drove higher demand for snacks and frozen food in North America.

Shares of Apple rose over 4% after the company calmed Wall Street nerves with an improvement in sales in China, statements from brokerages predicting a boost in its services business, and the launch of new iPhones.

The Central Bank has slapped a fine of almost €5.9m on Wells Fargo, the US banking giant which has a major European office in Ireland servicing US multinationals, for five “serious” breaches, including failing to properly report the amount of capital it had in the Irish bank.

An Irish-based subsidiary of US banking giant JP Morgan Chase has been fined €1.6m by the Central Bank for regulatory breaches.

It is now a decade since the publication of the infamous bitcoin white paper, ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’, and the launch of the bitcoin blockchain.

Michael Healy has been appointed as general manager in the Republic of Ireland for Deliveroo, the food delivery app service.

Pandora will lay off another 1,200 workers in Thailand and speed up marketing spending as its new chief executive looks to turn around the struggling jewellery maker and retailer after another fall in like-for-like quarterly sales.

Sales of higher-margin sports utility vehicles and cost cuts helped Volkswagen shrug off a €1bn legal charge to meet first-quarter operating profit forecasts, sending its shares 4% higher.

Aryzta shares have fallen more than 4.4% as a row over the size of the Cuisine de France-owner’s planned capital raise next month deepened.

Cuisine de France bakery owner Aryzta has agreed on an underwriting deal with five banks, setting the stage for raising €800m in new capital to strengthen its balance sheet.

Irish factories still extended a winning run despite the huge disruption to work and transport that Storm Emma visited on the country last month.

We must hope that heavyweight observers like Japan raise their voices even more, writes Joe Gill

Apple will halve its iPhone X production target for the first three months of the year to around 20 million units, the Asian Nikkei publishing company has reported, sending its shares down around 2.6% at one stage in the latest session.

Embraer — the world’s third largest aircraft manufacturer — is not concerned for its future following Airbus’s takeover of its nearest rival Bombardier, according to its Clare-born chief executive John Slattery.

World stockmarkets hovered close to all-time highs yesterday as the best start to a year in eight years showed little sign of running out of steam, with the combination of strong global growth and low inflation powering the appetite for risk.

By Eamon Quinn

Two multinational financial giants have snubbed an official request to appear before the Dáil’s spending watchdog to answer questions over corporate tax loopholes.

Litecoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Dash. They sound like a virtual reality version of Santa’s reindeer. 

A report by Revenue into Ireland’s corporation tax rules is set to be completed by April — weeks after major multinationals like Apple and LinkedIn are brought before TDs over loopholes in the system.

The Public Accounts Committee has formally written to Google, Apple and other major multinational firms based here ordering them to answer questions on the tax loopholes they target in this country.

A record level of global investors currently think shares are overvalued, while an increased amount of them are taking more risks with their investment choices than before, a survey shows, writes Geoff Percival.

Six multinationals including Apple and Google are set to be hauled before the Dáil’s financial watchdog next year to explain the amount of tax they pay in Ireland amid concerns about loopholes in the system.

Chipmaker Qualcomm —which has a significant presence in Cork — has attracted a mega bid that values the giant chip maker at $103bn (€89bn), setting the stage for a major takeover battle that would rock the electronics industry.

The chief executive of Goldman Sachs has cast further doubt over the banking giant's future in London after Brexit in a provocative tweet that is likely to pile further pressure on the Government.

Shares in LVMH climbed towards record highs after the world’s biggest luxury goods company reported stronger-than-forecast revenue growth for the third quarter.

Shares in Glenveagh Properties rose almost 14% above its offer price on its debut on the Irish Stock Exchange as investors hailed the prospects for an Irish house builder focused on building houses.

A global insurance giant has picked Dublin as its new post-Brexit base.

If past is prologue, then this week’s 10th anniversary of anxious queues forming outside Northern Rock should serve as a reminder that in banking everything is fine until it isn’t fine.

Brexit is set to deliver a much-heralded jobs boom with over 80,000 new roles to be created - in Frankfurt.

Sterling-euro exchange fluctuations have returned to haunt the Irish agri-food industry, amid claims by some currency analysts that the two currencies could converge to equal value within 2017.

After the euro surged through a critical technical level last week, analysts who study charts to help guide their predictions are looking back to 2010 for perspective on how high it could rise.

A survey that canvasses both business and consumers shows Irish confidence in the economic recovery has improved, but employers are still less upbeat than before the UK voted last summer to leave the EU.

Sterling looks set for a volatile run into British elections next week but an argument can be made for markets reacting positively to a defeat for UK prime minister Theresa May’s Conservatives, according to analysts from US banking giant JPMorgan.

JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall has suggested that Apple may unveil the iPhone next month at the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.

Financial regulators in Britain are investigating Barclays CEO Jes Staley and the bank over the handling of a whistleblowing incident.

JP Morgan Chase is in talks to buy a Dublin office building as the bank considers expanding in the capital as one of its options for when Britain leaves the EU, according to sources.

In the widest sense of the word, corruption is the glue that holds the ‘system’ together. The time to fight back has arrived. Soon it will be too late, write Lili Fuhr and Simon Taylor 

Shares plunged in Tullow Oil following the surprise announcement it was issuing a £607m (€695m) sales share at a vastly discounted price.