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Irish Times
28-04-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Portlaoise team wins Irish final of European money quiz
Jodie Komolafe and Richelle Alexander beat competition from more than 2,000 students across the State to win the Irish finals of the European Money Quiz. Now the third year students at Scoil Chríost Rí, Portlaoise are heading to Brussels to represent Ireland in the European Championships next month. Patrick Guilbaud on bringing fine dining to Ireland, retirement plans, and not getting that third Michelin star Listen | 47:51 The European Money Quiz is Europe's largest financial education competition which aims to promote financial literacy among 13- to 15-year-old students. The European finals, hosted by the European Banking Federation in Brussels, will have teams of two from 30 countries play against each other in an attempt to become European champions and share in a prize fund of €5,000 for their school. READ MORE The Irish competition was organised by Banking & Payments Federation Ireland with the support of the Business Studies Teachers' Association of Ireland.


Bloomberg
26-02-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Europe's Banks Warn of Hidden Credit Risk in Sudden ESG Retreat
The European Banking Federation is warning that the sheer scale of a proposed rollback of the bloc's ESG rules will make it harder for lenders to analyze credit risk. Banks in Europe have been waiting for years for their clients to start providing hundreds of data points under new ESG reporting rules. But as the European Union now looks set to dramatically water down planned regulations, banks fear they'll be left without the necessary tools to conduct proper credit risk analyses, according to the EBF, whose members include BNP Paribas SA, UniCredit SpA and Deutsche Bank AG.