The EU, UK and US have all ramped up sanctions on major Russian oil companies, namely Rosneft and Lukoil. It raises fresh questions about these firms' Irish subsidiaries and who has worked with them. thecurrency.news/articles/205...

Interview this morning on The Currency with Julius Baer's chief investment officer Yves Bonzon on the long slog towards EU unity on financial services. thecurrency.news/articles/202...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Chaos in London this week at the IMO meeting where the US and Saudi Arabia have managed to throw a spanner in the works on new emissions rules for shipping. Singapore also pushing for a delay on voting on the rules.

Games studios got a lift in the budget but will it be enough? People have thoughts. thecurrency.news/articles/204...

A Swiss case against one of the executives of controversial spyware company Intellexa once again raises questions about its sanctioned Irish companies. thecurrency.news/articles/204...

A Swiss case against one of the executives of controversial spyware company Intellexa once again raises questions about its sanctioned Irish companies. thecurrency.news/articles/204...

The IMO will likely adopt new climate rules for the maritime sector this week with Ireland on board - despite the Trump administration threatening sanctions against countries that support the framework. thecurrency.news/articles/204...

This one's been brewing for a long time and the fact that companies making this tech have not yet properly considered people with facial differences or people with disabilities speaks volumes. I mean, I wrote a piece about this almost 10 years ago. www.vice.com/en/article/f...?

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Want to read more about the budget? Of course you do. thecurrency.news/articles/203...

Billy Kelleher on hearing the Jim Gavin news 😂

Once in a lifetime moment for the sub. Savour it, man.

"Yeah, good luck with that" - the EU

Knotel, the one-time WeWork rival, is shutting up shop in Ireland and plans to appoint liquidators in the coming days. thecurrency.news/articles/203...

Coming soon to LinkedIn: More AI slop.

"Just because you do not like how the system works, that does not make it undemocratic." Something for all the sudden democracy defenders that came out of the woodwork this week.

There's a fair point to be made about reforming the nomination process but this is just reckless commentary. Steen was not "blocked". She was afforded the same opportunity as everyone else to get the numbers needed and she failed. Such a distortion of reality.

How Serbia could use EU Digital Services Act for state censorship euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Good BBC primer on the re-start of the Intellexa court case. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Irish aircraft lessor AerCap has settled another dispute with a Russian airline - this time, US-sanctioned Nordwind - over planes stranded in Russia since the start of the Ukrainian war. thecurrency.news/articles/202...

Temu's EU business, managed out of Dublin, saw revenues surge to $1.7bn in 2024, according to accounts filed in Ireland. thecurrency.news/articles/202...

Went on national radio to talk about the ECB and the digital euro. Lord help us. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

For all its many faults, the presidential nomination process can never be called boring.

E-book company Bookmate was founded in Russia but relocated its HQ to Ireland several years ago. It finds itself in an unusual position of being sanctioned by both Russia and Ukraine. thecurrency.news/articles/201...

🚨🇪🇺 EU cash💰 and taxpayer money in countries such as 🇮🇹Italy and 🇪🇸Spain are flowing to commercial #spyware firms, yet this public funding is not well-known or analysed. 🧵My investigation for @ftm.eu. 👇👇👇 www.ftm.eu/articles/spy...

Raphael Labs was set up by a group of researchers from Oxford to develop a nasal spray to treat Covid-19 but now it's facing collapse after an investor pulled out of backing the company and a legal question hangs over its IP. thecurrency.news/articles/201...

The Government unveiled its action plan on competitiveness today and its aspirations to make Ireland an "IP hub" but we're still no closer to holding a referendum on the Unified Patent Court. thecurrency.news/articles/201...

An Irish entity for the sanctioned Russian bank VTB was recently struck off by the CRO. But there's been more going on under the surface with VTB's Irish operations since the war in Ukraine started. thecurrency.news/articles/200...

It takes publishing a book to make Nick Clegg a staunch defender of intellectual property

An Irish entity for the sanctioned Russian bank VTB was recently struck off by the CRO. But there's been more going on under the surface with VTB's Irish operations since the war in Ukraine started. thecurrency.news/articles/200...

ICYMI

That time of year again.

US-sanctioned spyware firm Intellexa will be back in court in Greece this month. But questions still remain about its Irish companies. thecurrency.news/articles/200...

Belgium planning ban on imports from illegal Israeli settlements. www.politico.eu/article/belg...

HealthBeacon emerged from the brink after new owners Hamilton Beach swooped in to buy it out of examinership. Co-founder Kieran Daly and Hamilton Beach's Rob George explain what's next. thecurrency.news/articles/198...

BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr

Bertie Ahern is chairing the AB Charity Foundation, a non-profit set up by a crypto company called AB DAO. Just what is it all about? thecurrency.news/articles/198...

Yes, the FT has dubbed Ireland's post crash economy... the Celtic Tiger.

Inside the checkered past of Nutriband's interim CEO thecurrency.news/articles/199...

Ireland is late on transposing an EU directive on harmonising sanctions enforcement across the bloc. thecurrency.news/articles/198...

This is a must read on presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan, Nutriband, its backers and the money it's raised and lost. thecurrency.news/articles/198...

Earlier today I shared this article by my colleague Niall Sargent on the killing of Anas Al-Sharif by Israel across my different social media pages. LinkedIn has restricted my post, calling it "graphic content".

"His was no longer a voice they wanted speaking to the world about what is happening in Gaza day in, day out." thecurrency.news/articles/198...

Vigil this evening in Dublin for the Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel.

More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza. And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.

Huawei may be facing scrutiny at an EU level over the Huaweigate scandal but its European cloud business has started to rally, according to accounts filed in Ireland. thecurrency.news/articles/198...

Tariffs are all the rage these days but even with a fraught economic relationship with Europe, Irish tech companies are still bullish on the need to expand into the US asap. thecurrency.news/articles/197...