National Treasury Management Agency

The Agency tasked with managing State funding has now sold €4 billion of benchmark bonds this year

State’s debt management agency plans to raise between €6bn and €10bn in long-term debt this year

Rachael Ingle will succeed current NTMA chairwoman Susan Webb, whose term ends on 22 December 2023

Ibec’s podcast sponsorship, Collison’s Abbeyleix charity event, new roles for Altada’s co-founders, NTMA’s land deal in the docks and Digicel’s sports channel in the Caribbean

Debt-management agency has raised €7 billion through the sale of benchmark bonds this year

Minister for Finance Michael McGrath welcomes move and says Government will support ‘valuable conduit’ for exchequer funding

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Minister for Finance set to approve hike for State-backed savings schemes which could bring progress on bank rates

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State keen to close the door on the last of the debt used to prop up Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide whose failure triggered the financial crisis

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This was nearly €37m higher than the previous year

Corporation tax windfalls shielding agency from having to overly rely on international markets

Agency has raised 85% of the lower end of its target range for the year

State-backed fund is one of the founding investors in Just Climate’s inaugural $1.5bn fund

Change sees Irish debt rating now at fourth highest level on Moody's scale

Corrigan credited with helping pave the way for the government to return to international debt markets after bailout

Mass actions now comprising 10 per cent of all legal cases against the State

Nation’s debt to GDP ratio forecast to fall to less than a third of financial crisis

Bond sale comes a day after Government revealed €5.2bn budget surplus

Cash will be used to fund projects to help State meet greenhouse gas emission targets

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Debt office may be one of first EU nations to tap markets this year

Ireland has moved from a position when a lot of factors were in its favour to a more mixed picture

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The ECB’s deposit rate has swung from minus 0.5% to 2% since July

State’s funding agency had raised €7 billion of previous full-year target of €10 billion to €14 billion

Agency has raised €7bn on behalf of the State so far this year, a decline of up to 46% on the last year

National Treasury Management Agency has raised a total of €7 billion this year compared with a full year target of betwee €10bn and €14bn

European bond yields have risen amid growing sentiment the ECB could raise interest rates by as much as 0.75 of a percentage point

Forecasters expect economy to continue to grow, albeit not as strongly as before. But all acknowledge the uncertainty and the risks

Total bids amounted to almost twice the offer size

€50m fund will provide interim funding to hotels unable to raise finance from lenders

Agency has raised €5.75bn from benchmark debt sales in 2022

These bonds allow companies and governments raise funds for renewable energy projects and ‘green’ transport infrastructure

Businessman named one of seven people who engaged in ‘active concealment’

Cantillon: Borrowing outlook for many governments is changing

Sale received bids of twice the amount on offer

Agency has raised €4.5bn through benchmark bonds in 2022