If we are going to provide the social care services that people desire — and in many cases, deserve — we are going to have to ensure that there is in place a large cadre of wealth creators.

It’s a long way, geographically, from the small south Kerry village of Cromane to the gilded acres of California’s Stanford University. And an even greater cultural distance when one’s origins derived from deep poverty and forced emigration, only to transform in a single generation to the highest echelons of American academia.

Kerry global financial services company Fexco has opened a €21m research centre near its headquarters in Killorglin.

A prime example of a local enterprise with a global reach is Fexco, based in Killorglin, Co Kerry.

Fexco is opening the €21m facility in Killorglin on a site that was closed down in 2012.

Irish fin-tech company Fexco has announced a new partnership with UK supermarket group, Morrisons.

Cork is two years into a 10-year Bus Connects plan without a kilometre of additional bus lane or a planning application for a single park and ride.

Goodbody Stockbrokers is set to be sold to Bank of China in a deal understood to be worth around €150m, after a lengthy sales process.

A “colossal” spike in the number of imported cars from the UK has been recorded because of Brexit, new official figures reveal.

Up to €2bn may now be provided over the next four years to the new homes and property development sectors by alternative lender Castlehaven Finance, says the firm’s regional manager John ‘Paco’ Fitzgerald.

Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

The money spent by Irish buyers of second-hand cars imported from the UK doubled in the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2018.

Automaton, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning future are changing the working lives of people in contact centres quicker than any other sector. The good news is that Skillnet Ireland is working closely with businesses to keep Irish customer experience (CX) ahead of the curve.

A €3m partnership between UCC and financial services firm Fexco will see major research conducted on emerging financial technologies, or fintech.

Improved access to finance is underpinning business optimism in Munster, fuelling increased M&A activity along with a rise in the number of businesses willing to invest to support their growth, according to Deloitte.

Britain’s politicians are rediscovering the art of co-operation, just as Ireland’s consensus faces its sternest test, writes

The experts predict that a defeat may be snatched from the jaws of victory, with logic lacking in the Brexit negotiations. From local concerns to the international outlook, Eamon Quinn, Geoff Percival, and Pádraig Hoare report on this week’s Brexit progress.

Kerry-based financial services and money transfer group Fexco is eyeing more acquisitions to boost its retail foreign exchange outlet business.

Fexco has added two outlets to its existing 110 foreign exchange branches in Britain and Ireland by acquiring Changelink Ltd in London, in a deal that shows the volatility caused to sterling by the UK’s Brexit vote of summer 2016 has given new life to large foreign exchange retail traders.

IF Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is still convinced that the people of rural Ireland want, as he puts it, “to turn every town into a city and every village into town, and railways to everywhere,” he should stop being so condescending and get out more.

Accumulated profits at Co Kerry-based financial services and money transfer giant Fexco jumped by €16m to €304m in 2016, probably helped by a better performance of Goodbody, the broker which it also owns.

Killorglin-based financial services group Fexco has expressed confidence in weathering the Brexit storm as it continues to grow its UK operations.

The pressure facing retailers over the ‘Long Black Friday’ weekend following the plunge in sterling since the Brexit vote could ease significantly as the euro faces the first of its own looming tests next week, according to analysts.

A civic reception has been given to a global entrepreneur who has kept his feet firmly on Kerry soil where he grew his tiny operation into a world-leading brand.

The problem of ‘lifeless towns’ in a premier tourism county is to be tackled by a local authority.

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Irish financial services group Fexco has announced the acquisition of UK rival CEC in its largest corporate transaction in the UK ever.

Council chiefs have been urged to repurpose a “monumentally ugly” disused factory in a tourist town.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

Not even endorsements by Barack Obama and Tom Cruise could prevent the number of Certificates of Irishness being issued last year from plummeting.

Fexco seeks UK acquisition targets

Darina Allen, owner of the world-renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, was last night honoured by Cork Chamber for her years of service and achievement in the food industry.

Two members of Davy Stockbrokers’s Private Client division who joined the firm following the collapse of Bloxham Stockbrokers in 2012, are both leaving the firm.

Fexco, the Kerry-headquartered international financial services group, has strengthened its presence in the British market by acquiring retail foreign exchange business InterCash for an undisclosed fee.

Kerry-based business services group Fexco is to create 80 jobs as part of a significant expansion of its UK operations.

Business groups in Kerry have begun a campaign to maintain Government support for the daily Kerry to Dublin air service.

A top Irish brand and communications agency has beaten illustrious international competition to win a prestigious contract to help review Trinity College’s brand and shape a new and distinct identity.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

It might not entitle you anything, but new figures show 2,200 people have secured a Certificate of Irishness — including people resident in Bhutan and American Samoa.

A 40-bed nursing home could close unless the Government intervenes with financial support, it was claimed yesterday.