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AML and the problem of “derisking
One of the more welcome aspects of the post-financial crash environment has...
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The overtrading paradox
One of the more extraordinary paradoxes of the Irish economy post-crisis is...
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Ireland - collecting on the export opportunity
The Irish economy is back in full recovery mode and key economic metrics su...
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Panama - The Unthinkable Truth
One of the fundamental truths about journalism is that more often than not,...
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Fintech reaches tipping point for traditional banking
This week may have market the point where the significance of the fintech r...
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Lenders gear up for CCR Launch
Another milestone on the road to the proposed Central Credit Register was r...
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The stakes just got higher for Financial Institutions
New money laundering directive to raise AML/CFT stakes. Just as financial i...
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Fear and Fatigue point to New Credit Union Model
Credit unions are well used to the label of “sleeping giant” of the Iri...
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Regulators turn the screw on AML
By James Treacy, Managing Director, StubbsGazette. Anti-Money Laundering (A...
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2015 – A Turning Point?
It is now becoming difficult to discount the weight of evidence suggesting ...
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Personal Insolvency Emerges from Limbo
The Q3 figures released by the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) indicate...
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The rise of digital payments
Digital payment is the fastest-moving, most dynamic sector in financial ser...
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Futureproofing your financials: How your data can help you get the most value from your customers
by Malka Townshend All businesses love their customers. Analysis of custome...
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Assure your Revenue with QTOX: Find the Leak and Fix it
    By Malka Townhend        Busin...
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Detox Your Data: From Big Data to Right Data
. Words by Malka Townshend. Businesses have customers but how well do you r...
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Banks embrace new world of APIs
One of the most compelling signs that traditional, mainstream banks are beg...
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Real Alternatives to Examinership
Article by Jim Stafford partner with Friel StaffordThe commencement of the ...
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Bankruptcy Proposal Goes Too Far
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality had extende...
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P2P lending threatens bank marginalisation
Imagine if the retail banking system was to be rebuilt from scratch using t...
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Insolvency regime comes of age
One of the most revolutionary developments in finance in recent years has b...
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5 Biggest Credit Control Mistakes
When the cash stops circulating, businesses – even profitable ones – di...
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Cash tells the truth in accounting
When it comes to assessing business performance the fixation on “profit�...
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Payments Critical to FinTech Growth
The IFS2020 document, “A Strategy for Ireland’s International Financial...
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Mortgage market going round in circles
On the face of things, the publication of the Central Bank’s Q4 2014 Mort...
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Pressure Mounts on Debt Managers
As momentum behind the personal insolvency regime continues to grow, the en...
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Fine Gael TD who owes bank millions appointed wife to €38k government job
Sunday World 19th March 2015 by Morgan Flanagan Creagh. Fine Gael TD John P...
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Credit unions lacking the will to live
First the good news. Total arrears at credit unions have decreased and ther...
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The Science of Set Costs
One of the virtues of the personal Insolvency regime is that when it comes ...
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A principled approach to Debt Recovery
We never forget that we are representing your organisation and that there i...
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Irish SMEs fail to identify skills shortcomings
. The deleveraging of the banking sector post-financial crisis was quickly ...
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Credit Control: Ending The Cycle of Destruction
Irish business is justifiably infamous for its attitude to creditors. Studi...
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Myles Crofton sees biggest court judgment of this year
Irish Independent 24/12/2014 John Mulligan. Irish consumers were slapped wi...
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The Year of Enforcement
. Few issues in Ireland are as emotive as the subject of house repossession...
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The unsecured lending quandary
Some two years have gone by since the Personal Insolvency Act was signed in...
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Doctors and judges forced to sell trophy homes or face bankruptcy
Irish Independent, Monday, 6 October 2014. . There has been a surge in info...
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Debt collection: accept no imitators
Debt collection: accept no imitators The Guardian newspaper has uncovered ...
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Designing the Customer Statement
The issue of customer statements are an essential part of the credit contro...
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Top 250 Exporters 2014
MD of StubbsGazette James Treacy has compiled the data for the Top 250 expo...
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Google is Ireland's No 1 exporter
BusinessWorld, Wednesday, 3 September 2014. . Google Ireland is Ireland's t...
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Top 5 Judgments of July 2014
Below are the top 5 judgments registered in July 2014 by plaintiffs against...
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James Treacy of StubbsGazette on Today with Sean O'Rourke
Keelin Shanley is joined on RTÉ Radio 1 by James Treacy, CEO of Stub...
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“Debt map” highlights border counties
StubbsGazette’s 2014 “Debt Map” which surveys the number and value of...
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State-backed debt deals will bear fruit... just give them time.
James Treacy, Irish Independent, 3 August 2014.   The State's pe...
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We owe five times more than we did 
in 2008.
Louise McBride, Irish Independent, 3 August 2014   The average perso...
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Danske Bank steps up action against former FG junior minister John Perry
Arthur Beesley, Irish Times, 22 July 2014. Court judgment registered for th...
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Defending the insolvency regime
It has become something of a reflex action on the part of sections of the m...
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TD puts on a brave face – but the stakes are high as he heads for Stubbs Gazette
Shane Phelan, Irish Independent, 19th July 2014. . HAS time finally run out...
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Former minister faces prospect of bankruptcy over €2.4m bank debt
Shane Phelan, Irish Independent, 19th July 2014. . FORMER junior minister J...
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Debt collection: accept no imitators
The Guardian newspaper has uncovered some sharp practice employed by UK ban...
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Top Q2 2014 Judgments
The top judgments registered in the courts in Q2 of 2014   &...
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Latest Judgments - June 2014
During the last week, Irish commercial and consumer debtors have had court ...
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Foolproof invoicing: a checklist
When it comes to finding a reason to delay payment, there is little doubt t...
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Confidence returning to the boomtime developers
Those builders who survived the crash are back, and they have big ideas, sa...
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Insolvency and liquidation: degrees of difficulties
In some cases, vigilant suppliers will act on early indications that a part...
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Top 5 Judgments of May 2014
Below are the top 5 judgments registered in May 2014 by plaintiffs against ...
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Cash Management Metrics
Cash management is a critical activity of the corporate treasurer and has t...
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Rise of Transaction Banking
A slew of poor results from the investment banking arms of the world’s ma...
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Top 5 Judgments of April 2014
The top 5 judgments  registered  in  the  Irish  C...
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Biggest companies poised for maximum SEPA benefits
Those Irish businesses fretting over their preparedness or otherwise for th...
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e-Day seeks to change payments culture
“The cheque’s in the post.”. It’s one of the most familiar phrases ...
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Q1 2014 Top Judgments
The top judgments registered in the courts in Q1 of 2014   &...
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The frustration of the “P-PIP”
The designation Personal Insolvency Practitioner (PIP) is not something ear...
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The flavour of success
Alison Healy, The Irish Times, 26th March 2013. The Food Harvest export tar...
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The credit decision: adopting a multi-bureau approach
Here at StubbsGazette we pride ourselves on the lengths we go to in order t...
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Analysing the credit decision
It has emerged that the government has spent over €100 million on profess...
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One in five food and drink companies has poor credit rating, study finds
Alison Healy, The Irish Times, 27th February 2014. . One fifth of companies...
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Just Text to Collect
Text messaging in a social context has long past epidemic proportions and i...
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Nurses and teachers increasingly taking breaks in UK to go bankrupt
Mark O'Regan and Maeve Sheehan, Sunday Independent – 09 February 2014. NU...
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What’s left? Irish households show cost control
. It’s the time of year when many people sit down to ponder their financi...
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Top 5 Judgments January 2014
SurnameFirst Name. AddressReg DateAmountCountyPlaintiffCroftonMylesRenesca,...
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Report to deconstruct food and drinks industry
Ireland’s economic aspirations in fashionable high-tech and sciences indu...
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Senior barrister hit with €700k tax debts after major losses on property
Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor, Irish Independent – 20 January 2014. A B...
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James Treacy: It's time to accept that for many, their financial situation is hopeless
JAMES TREACY –  IRISH INDEPENDENT 03 JANUARY 2014. Back in March las...
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Number of people going bankrupt doubles in just a year
Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor Irish Independent- 26 December 2013 . ...
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Don't delay debt action
All suppliers know that the offer of credit terms is often essential to the...
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Get Paid Before Christmas
Niamh McArdle, StubbsGazette, 20th November 2013. There is always intense p...
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Bankrupt developer hit by €13m judgment
Dearbhail McDonald, Irish Indepenent – 12 November 2013. ENTREPRENEUR Gra...
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Let Ireland’s Leading Debt Collection Company Take Care of Those Unpaid Invoices
When you or your company is having a problem with debt management, then you...
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What is a demand letter?
Get Help Collecting Unpaid Debts. A demand letter is a letter for payment t...
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Top 5 Judgments from October 2013
SurnameFirst Name. AddressReg DateAmountCountyPlaintiffBeadesJerry162, Rich...
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Anatomy of a bust
The causes of Ireland’s great economic bust promise to provide rich picki...
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Gyles Callan, Strategic Account Manager
Gyles discusses how StubbsGazette can help companies improve their cash flo...
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Bank registers debt of €9.6m against Beades
Irish Independent - Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor – 14 October 2013. BA...
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Taxman hits owner of luxury yacht firm with €7.2m tax judgment
Shane Phelan and Cormac McQuinn, Irish Independent – 05 October 2013. A B...
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Debtors 'pay credit union before taxman'
Charlie Weston Personal Finance Editor, Irish Independent – 07 October 20...
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Top 5 Judgments from September 2013
Surname First Name. Address Reg Date AmountPlaintiff Milton John 3, Garvil...
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Niamh McArdle of StubbsGazette speaks about the newly enacted Personal Insolvency Regime on LMFM
An explanation of the three new solutions available to people in debt. ...
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StubbsGazette Personal Insolvency Survey Results
The Personal Insolvency Bill that was published in June of last year and en...
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Informal sector should be preserved
September 9th marked Day 1 of the new personal insolvency regime.. The day ...
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Choosing a PIP
The names of the first 40 or 50 personal insolvency practitioners (PIPS) to...
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€20m debt ruling against hotelier serving five-year rape sentence
Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor, Irish Independent – 31 August 2013. . A ...
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The future is prepaid
Irish consumers continue to fall out of love with the credit card. End of J...
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Ulster Bank has no plans to write off debt
Louise McBride, Sunday Independent  04 August 2013. Ulster Bank boss J...
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174 Irish consumers and companies had their name appear in Stubbs this week due for failure to repay debts to creditors.
The value of the judgments reached €8m (including joint and severally lia...
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Waterford, Cavan and Leitrim are Ireland's most debt-laden counties
Louise McBride,Sunday Independent, 04.08.2013 . Nationally, we owe four tim...
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Customer data key to card wars
The new rules on electronic payments in the European Union are nothing shor...
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Perry faces serious political consequences following €2.47m judgment
Harry McGee, The Irish Times,  23 July 2013 . Last April, Ministe...
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Judgment of €2.47m entered against minister and his wife
Mary Carolan, The Irish Times, 22 July 2013. . Fine Gael Minister of State ...
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Lorcan O’Connor, Director Designate of ISI indicates that they expect to take applications from debtors in the next few weeks
Lorcan O’Connor, Director Designate of Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI...
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New mortgage Code gets balance right
Anecdotal evidence suggests that until now mortgage holders in arrears have...
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New Framework a poser for credit unions
While much attention has been focused on the new insolvency regime and the ...
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Inexorable rise in Judgment values, sees unpaid debts return to crisis levels
The inexorable rise in unpaid debts sees registered judgment values climbin...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup 24 June 2013
There were 114 judgments registered in the courts last week. Creditors purs...
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The changing face of debt collection
Merci Kinahan is Collections Manager at StubbsGazette. She talks about her ...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup 14 June 2013
There were 110 cash strapped Irish debtors pursued in the courts this week ...
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Testimonials from our Seminars
Credit Unions that attended our Seminars on Suicide Awareness on 5 June 201...
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Maeve Sheehan: The four horsemen who came close to bringing an apocalypse
Maeve Sheehan – Irish Indipendent 09 June 2013 How the actions of so...
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Civil servants could be asked to work as debt collectors
Michael Brennan Deputy Political Editor – 17 May 2013 (Irish Independent)...
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Hayes promises action to recover the 'massive debts' owed to the state by social welfare claimants and commercial companies
Michael Brennan Deputy Political Editor – 16 May 2013 (Irish Independent)...
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Minister Hayes on delivering Better Debt Management
Today (16-May-2013) in Dublin’s Alexandra Hotel Minister of State for Pub...
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How much is reasonable?
The insolvency Service of Ireland’s newly-published Guidelines on reasona...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup
The latest issue of StubbsGazette details the 124 Irish debtors who were pu...
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Explosion of bankruptcies are on the way for Ireland
Sunday Business Post. 14 April 2013. Written by James Treacy, Managing Dire...
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Kenny defends 'private option' to recover debt
Michael Brennan, Deputy Political Editor. Irish Independent - 27th March 20...
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Personal Insolvency Seminar 25th February 2013
Aidan Eames, Personal Insolvency Seminar 25th February 2013Watch. Joseph Sh...
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Private debt collectors to go after welfare fraudsters
Michael Brennan, Deputy Political Editor, Irish Independent 26 March 2013. ...
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Niamh McArdle of StubbsGazette on LMFM
Niamh McArdle is always in Stubbs Gazette - because she works there. She ca...
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Record number of Irish avail of UK bankruptcy
Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor. Irish Independent. 19 March 2013. A RECORD...
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25,000 expected to seek debt deals under new insolvency rules
Charlie Weston . Personal Finance Editor. Irish Independent – 05 March 20...
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Many fear new debt laws will be exploited, StubbsGazette poll finds
Many fear new debt laws will be exploited, StubbsGazette poll finds. Irish ...
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Debt collectors are not vetted by Garda
Ruaidhri Giblin. Sunday Independent . 17 February 2013. Dreaded debt collec...
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IICM Code of Conduct for Debt Collection Agencies
IICM 2010 V1.R1 1. 1. General Conduct. Each member shall act responsibly an...
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Recourse for Creditors Post Judgment Registration
So, you have obtained a judgment against a customer and it has now appeared...
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HMV – the ugly reality of failure
If there is one positive to be taken from the fall of the HMV group into ad...
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January Judgments
The last four weeks has seen 479 plaintiffs take Irish Consumers and Corpor...
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Credit union debt judgments average €100,000
By Charlie Weston Personal Finance Editor. Irish Independent. Thursday Janu...
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Limerick solicitor owes €70 million
Kathy Masterson. Limerick Post . MONDAY, 21 JANUARY 2013. A LIMERICK solici...
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Credit unions seek payback
One of the biggest irritants felt by commercial banks at present is the mar...
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Limerick based solicitor has €70m in NAMA debt judgements
By PHILIP RYAN. Sunday Independent. Sunday January 20 2013. A SOLICITOR wit...
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Recourse for HMV Customers?
Without being an expert on the legalities, this is how we at StubbsGazette ...
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Solicitors in the dock on debt
Irish Independent. Tuesday January 15 2013. IT is an odd situation when sol...
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62 solicitors in court over failure to pay debts of €92m
By Charlie Weston Personal Finance Editor Irish Independent Tuesday January...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup
Irish debts amounting to nearly €4m were pursued in the Irish Courts this...
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The business of personal insolvency
It is well understood that developing economies follow a typical pattern of...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup
In the run up to Christmas and in the first week of 2013 there were 215 jud...
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Credit unions three times more likely to recover debt
Dearbhail McDonald Legal Editor. Irish Independent (2nd January 2013). CRED...
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Bill Cullen hit with €8.2m judgement
By Tom Lyons. Sunday Independent. Sunday December 16 2012. Bill Cullen, the...
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The Irish Courts
To get help collecting bad debts or to find out more -  please call us...
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The 3 Most Dangerous Myths about Debt Recovery.... and what to do about them
People believe strange things about the debt collection process.. . Myth 1....
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Registered Judgments top €1billion in 2012
With a month to go in the calendar year the total value of Registered Judgm...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup
The value of judgments registered in Ireland against companies and individu...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup
The value of judgments registered in Ireland against companies and individu...
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StubbsGazette Announces New Mobile Website
We are excited to announce that StubbsGazette has launched its newly design...
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Weekly Judgment Roundup
The value of judgments registered in Ireland against companies and individu...
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Protecting the family home
For most of us, Christmas promises to be a happy time, secure in the family...
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Noonan gets Cabinet support to regulate debt-collection firms
By Tom Lyons. Sunday November 25 2012. Sunday Independent. THE Government h...
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Weekly Judgment Round-Up
The value of judgments registered in Ireland against companies and individu...
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Personal Insolvency: New Bill has much to prove
December will bring up the second anniversary of the EC-EU-IMF “troik...
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The disappearing bank branch
The Irish bank branch is the latest victim of the post-crisis banking fallo...
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Judgment registered against Dunne firm
SIMON CARSWELL, Finance Correspondent, The Irish TImes (6 November 2012). A...
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Sligo now least credit-worthy (Stubbs Gazette)
Sligo Today (5th November 2012). The average consumer now owes four times m...
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Our average debt is almost €10,000 now
We owe four times more than we did in 2008. By LOUISE McBRIDE Irish Indepen...
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No Holiday For Power Directors
Behind each and every case published in StubbsGazette each month there is s...
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Department consults on central credit register
Back in the days when credit was more plentiful than summer rain and the is...
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Debt magazine names property man
One of Northern Ireland's best known property developers has been named in ...
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Fewer Irish firms at risk of collapse -- Stubbs
By Peter Flanagan (Irish Independant, Monday August 20 2012)23pc of Irish f...
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Debtors' haircuts - the pain starts here
There is probably only one financial problem that surpasses the euro crisis...
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Fewer Irish firms at risk of collapse - Stubbs
23pc of Irish firms have weak credit scores, says Gazette. CREDIT. FAR fewe...
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Dodgy Directors: with no case to answer
StubbsGazette analysis shows that there were some 826 disqualified company ...
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Reilly took €10k State jet home to face debts storm
By Niall O'ConnorThe Evening Herald Tuesday July 17 2012EMBATTLED James Rei...
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Minister says care home debts will be paid
EOGHAN MacCONNELLThe Irish Times 17 July 2012MINISTER FOR Health Dr James R...
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Google is top Irish exporter of 2012
Business WorldThe Irish Exporters Association (IEA) today launched its annu...
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10 questions for Dr Reilly
Why is the minister being listed in 'Stubbs Gazette'?Is the debt paid?Does ...
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Pat Kenny with James Treacy and Fionnan Sheehan
StubbsGazette MD James Treacy and Independent Political Editor Fionnan Shea...
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James Reilly's personal statement to the Dáil
James Treacy of the Irish Fraud Bureau interviewed on the current situation...
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Reilly left red-faced as he's named on debt-default list
Donal O'Donovan and Fionnan SheahanIrish Independent 10th July 2012HEALTH M...
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Bankers’ new Fitness and Probity regime well earned
In a landmark address in May 2010, when he was just a year in the job, the ...
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Judgments for bank debt have soared to €5bn
By Philip Ryan, The Irish Mail on Sunday May 27 2012They won’t get money ...
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The New Payments Revolution
Banks have a fairly privileged position. We trust them with our deposits. T...
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Man whose sister bought his former home still owes €233,000 to Revenue
Charlie Weston and Colm Kelpie, Irish Independant, 24 May 2012A MAN whose s...
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Former Openet executive's firm pursued for €177,000 judgment
The Irish Times - Monday, May 21, 2012. A company associated with businessm...
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Credit union secures €108,000 judgment
By Charlie Weston, Personal Finance EditorIrish Independant  Tuesday M...
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Warning over 'unscrupulous behaviour' by directors
Peter Flanagan, Irish Independent 14th May 2012. The number of company dire...
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James Treacy Interview with Pat Kenny
Pat was joined in studio now by James Treacy, MD of StubbsGazette to talk a...
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Responsible Lending
Credit is an opportunity that should be universally available. Access to cr...
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