I’m sure many of you have come across this anomaly in the financial world recently. I’m not sure whether it’s just stupidity, [...]
Banking
What would it take for you to switch your bank?
There’s a lot of talk these days about how our choice in banking is slowly but surely being eroded with the closure [...]
Overcharging by the banks – our regulator still only talking a good game
I wrote on Monday about the fact that “naming and shaming” banks and businesses that steal money from their customers isn’t having [...]
Are Irish business so brazen that “naming and shaming” doesn’t matter any more?
Way back in 2004, Senator Donie Cassidy tried to start a “name and shame” campaign in the early days of what became [...]
AIB added to Overcharging Hall of Shame for 8th time
Today sees yet another addition to the Overcharging Hall of Shame with AIB returning to the listing now for the 8th time [...]
Bank Of Ireland phishing e-mail – would you fall for this?
A friend sent me this e-mail phishing attempt from a month or so ago – pretending to be a Bank of Ireland [...]
Refund.ie – A service that I’d stay well clear of
Both the Irish Examiner and the Irish Independent (three times) have blindly (and misguidedly in my opinion) given coverage recently to a new [...]
1.9m Irish consumers overcharged by over €632m since 2004
Last week saw Bank of Ireland added to the Overcharging in Ireland hall of shame for the 6th time since 2004. According [...]
NAMA. Some worthwhile reading.
I wrote back in April what my thoughts are with regards to how NAMA might actually be a good thing for some [...]
Making money from “thin value” in the zombieconomy
I was reading an article from the Harvard Business Blog recently that made me think a bit about why some things are [...]
