IFSC accounts for €789.1 billion of €1.1 trillion of external Irish debt
Mar 10th, 2010 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
The Central Bank today published new statistics on securities issued by entities resident in Ireland. The new dataset contains information on the outstanding amount of external Irish debt and equity securities by sector of issuer, at end-December 2009 and end-January 2010. Debt of almost €1.1 trillion is mainly accounted for by the IFSC, Dublin's offshore financial services centre, which has a debt of €789.1 billion.