Breakfast Business

Patricia Callan, Chief Executive of Financial Services Ireland, joins Breakfast Business to discuss the threats and opportunities facing Ireland’s financial services workers. From AI disruption to a global tariff war and unlocking €100bn in dormant savings.Listen here.

All the biggest business news stories on Tuesday, 3 June with Joe Lynam.Listen here.

Mortgage approvals continued to grow in April as first-time buyer activity reached new highs, that’s according to latest figures from the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland.Chief Economist at the BPFI, Ali Ugur joined Emmet to discuss these figures .

Bord Bia’s Bloom Festival is underway and will run until 2pm on Monday. Emmet was joined on the show this morning by Bord Bia CEO, Jim O’Toole to talk how sustainability takes centre stage this year. 

We get all the latest in the Markets with Aiden Donnelly from Davy and Emmet Oliver.

A new report reveals that 67% of businesses frequently experience payment system issues with over half saying refund processing problems have directly cost them customers.   To discuss with Emmet was is Alex Marsh, Chair of SALAD, and Non-Executive Director of the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology. 

Pat Lardner, CEO of Irish Funds joined Tom to talk through the competitiveness of the funds industry 

Wednesday's business news headlines with Tom McEnaney.

AI is changing the face of so many industries across the world, and that remains through for the manufacturing industry. To tell us more on this is Director for Manufacturing at PwC Ireland, Gary Hanniffy.

Tom McEnaney was joined on the show by Barry Manning after his re-appointment as Chair of the Irish Payments Council. 

Tom McEnaney looks at today's business news headlines.

On Monday May 19th, the company Egis was awarded a long-term contract to operate and maintain the Dublin Tunnel, the Jack Lynch Tunnel and monitor 1,200km of motorway across Ireland. Joining Tom on the show was Steve Preece, CEO of Egis.

Leonie MacCann from Irish Life Investment Managers looks through all the business news and markets with Joe Lynam.

Up to quite recently, if you had had a cancer diagnosis, you probably found it next to impossible to get life insurance cover even if you were fully recovered. There has been a code of practice in place from the insurance industry for the past year but no legislation. Now the insurance industry has stepped back and is supporting laws to enshrine the so-called “right to be forgotten“ when it comes to cancer survivors. Speaking to Joe this morning was Robert Troy the Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for Insurance. 

The domestic economy in Ireland will remain ticking along nicely with modified domestic demand set to be 2.5% this year.  Unemployment is set to pick up a little bit next year but it’s all clouded by the global macroeconomic perspective.  That’s the view of AIB in its latest economic snapshot.   The report expects GDP here to soar then fall notably next year while consumer spending is set to moderate next year.  To discuss the report findings Joe spoke to David McNamara is the AIB Chief Economist. 

Kate English Deloitte  joins Joe on the show to look through all the business news.

The government is setting up a new Small Business Unit within the department of Enterprise.  Its purpose is to test all proposed new laws to see if they meet the so-called ‘SME test’ and don't add unnecessarily to the cost and regulatory burden on small companies.   But will it just be a talking shop without teeth to really block legislation which might come from different parts of the government? All to discuss with Peter Burke Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment. 

Howden started off as a small mortgage broker in Britain but has grown to a worldwide operation with 22,000 staff.  They’ve grown to the point where they now sponsor the forthcoming Lions rugby tour of Australia this summer.  Here in Ireland they are known as Finance Solutions and they also act as brokers for insurance, home loans and now Life insurance products. They are creating 100 new jobs in the capital. Robert Kennedy, CEO of Howden Ireland joined Joe in studio this morning.

US and Japanese bond yields have been soaring in recent days.  To some it might be a reflection in recovery of stock markets in the 1st and 4th largest economies in the world.  Or it might be investors waking up to the fact that both nations are heavily in debt with no prospect of getting that debt mountain down. Joining Joe this morning was Gregory Perden, a well known fund manager and was named among Citywire's most ‘Influential Wealth Managers’. He’s also a Senior adviser with Moore Ireland.

Founded in 1997 in Galway by a very well known face and voice here in Newstalk Bobby Kerr. Insomnia coffee was the first of the new wave of American style frothy coffees in an Ireland which overwhelmingly drank only tea.  Bobby may have moved on but the Irish love affair with modern coffee continues at a pace to the point where Coffee has supplanted tea and Insomnia now has 157 outlets on both sides of the Irish Sea.To chat about the business of coffee Joe spoke to Harry O’Kelly the Chief Executive of Insomnia Coffee.