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Over the last quarter of a century something fundamental seems to have changed in the way in which capitalism works.
The tendency since 1970 has been towards greater geographical mobility of capital.
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Rather than being a modest helper to the capital accumulation process, [finance] gradually turned into a driving force.
Speculative finance became a kind of secondary engine for growth given the weakness in the primary engine, productive investment.
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“As understood by the Financial Regulator, ‘principles-based’ regulation relied very heavily on making sure that appropriate governance structures and systems were in place in banks and building societies.
Honohan Report on the Irish banking crisis, May 2010, p.44.
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“As understood by the Financial Regulator, ‘principles-based’ regulation relied very heavily on making sure that appropriate governance structures and systems were in place in banks and building societies.
To this extent, the underlying philosophy was oriented towards trusting a properly governed firm; it was potentially only a short step from that trust to the emergence of a somewhat diffident attitude on the part of the regulators so far as challenging the decisions of firms was concerned.
Honohan Report on the Irish banking crisis, May 2010, p.44.
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“As understood by the Financial Regulator, ‘principles-based’ regulation relied very heavily on making sure that appropriate governance structures and systems were in place in banks and building societies.
To this extent, the underlying philosophy was oriented towards trusting a properly governed firm; it was potentially only a short step from that trust to the emergence of a somewhat diffident attitude on the part of the regulators so far as challenging the decisions of firms was concerned.
[Also], legislation set as a statutory objective of the [central bank and financial regulator] the promotion of the financial services industry in Ireland, the situation was ripe for the emergence of a rather accommodating stance vis-à-vis credit institutions.”
Honohan Report on the Irish banking crisis, May 2010, p.44.
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… Matheson attorney Dualta Counihan has served as a director of at least 274 entities, based on Irish records, while attorney George Brady has served as a director of at least 232 entities.
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