ID-Pal has won Merchant Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the 8th Annual Payment Awards. ID-Pal enables businesses to verify the identity of customers in real-time simply, securely and conveniently. The solution is easy to [...]
The Covid-19 pandemic has put small businesses under considerable financial strain relative to larger companies, with the shock to their turnover creating significant cash-flow challenges in some sectors, Central Bank deputy governor Ed Sibley said [...]
EUROZONE economic activity slipped back into decline this month as a second wave of the coronavirus swept across the continent, heightening expectations for a double-dip recession, surveys showed on Friday. Renewed restrictions to control the [...]
The cost of borrowing for lrish SMEs is more than two and a half times the euro area average, according to new interest rate data published by the Central Bank. Small businesses in Ireland were [...]
As businesses across Ireland prepare to accelerate their recovery from the impact of Covid-19, Enterprise Ireland has seen a significant increase in demand for the Sustaining Enterprise Fund (SEF) which was launched in April of [...]
Irish SMEs have lost more than €10bn in revenue as a result of the economic disruption caused by Covid-19, according to new estimates by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI). In a financial stability note [...]
Irish online verification company ID-Pal has raised €1 million in funding to fuel expansion. The company, which was founded by Colum Lyons in 2016, is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) developer that provides solutions for businesses to ensure compliance [...]
Ireland's SMEs lost between €6bn and €10bn in revenue from March to June this year, according to research published this morning by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). The think-tank warned that the figure [...]
Customers will be charged up to 5pc per year to borrow under the Government's Covid-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme, well above advertised rates, once insurance fees are loaded onto bills. The scheme, one of the main [...]
Economic sentiment fell backwards in August for the first time since the country began to emerge from lockdown and despite the Government's Stimulus Package announced on July 23. Ireland is an outlier with European Commission [...]