Ireland: Finance and Banking

On 5 June 2025, the European Commission published a consultation regarding a draft Delegated Decision on the renewal of the equivalence...

The European Banking Authority's (EBA) consultation on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the list of minimum information to be provided to the relevant competent authority at the time of the notification of the proposed acquisition of qualifying holdings in a credit institution closes on 18 September 2025.

The European Commission has just published a draft delegated regulation to amend the Solvency II Delegated Regulation and create a revised prudential framework...

The proposed changes in the Draft Regulation aim to address several challenges in the current Solvency II framework, including excessive sensitivity to short-term market volatility...

Similar to debt markets worldwide, Private Credit has become a key feature of the Irish market with many of the largest and most innovative financings involving Ireland over the past number of years being financed...

LO-QIAIFs can issue loans, participate in loans, invest in debt / credit instruments and participate in lending and operations relating thereto, including investing in debt and equity securities...

If Budget 2025 was the ‘Windfall Budget' with one-off measures aplenty for all, with controls cast off in anticipation of an election...

The European Banking Authority's (EBA) consultations on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) and guidelines relating to the new framework for third-country branches...

In the recent decision of Pepper v O'Reilly[1], delivered on 8 July 2025, the Court of Appeal considered the correct procedural steps in an appeal of a Circuit Court Order for Possession...

A CCF is an unincorporated body constituted under contract by a deed of constitution between a management company and a depositary.

Ireland is a leading global fund establishment jurisdiction. The access to a pan-European marketing passport, flexible regulatory framework, favourable and transparent tax regime, broad product spectrum...

Ireland is a highly attractive leading global fund domicile. Since the establishment of the funds and asset management industry in Ireland over 30 years ago, the industry has grown exponentially.