Jeffrey Anderson of the IIF has a note here.
Month: March 2013
The NTMA release on the sale of a March 2023 government bond is here.
The CEPR has produced a study of the potential gains from a bilateral deal – it is here.
Today the Irish government and Central Bank together announced a new set of plans to tackle the mortgage arrears crisis. The new plan reverses two policy decisions from the recent past that are now acknowledged to be flawed: the 2009 Land Conveyancing Act, and the Financial Regulator’s 2011 Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears. The plan also imposes ambitious targets on all Irish domestic banks, first, to offer each mortgage holder in arrears a specific proposal for resolving their arrears problem, and second (during 2014) to ensure that a majority of these individual plans are implemented or suitably modified.
The targets seem fairly aggressive, with over 55,000 individual arrears resolution plans to be offered by December of this year. It is not clear when the new process can begin since the legislative changes to the 2009 Land Conveyancing Act may not be ready for several months (today they were promised to be completed by the summer recess of the Dail).
Key documents:
Irish Central Bank press announcement:
Mortgage arrears resolution targets:
Consultation on changes to the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears:
In this short brief, the European Commission explains its approach to fiscal adjustment – here.