The company, founded by former Cablelink employee, Mr Tom Higgins, provides specialist products for next generation broadband operators. As a matter of fact, some would add a few spicier terms as well. Xilinx, the programmable logic design company which employs 250 people at Citywest, Dublin, has acquired Integral Design, a Dublin design services company. The US Nasdaq-quoted company plans to employ around 12 people here by the end of the year. Personal credit histories are on a database that may be accessed by lenders and borrowers in the State.
Moneylenders are often the only source of credit for economically disadvantaged individuals.
However, consumers who fail to read the small print may sign up to such loans, or other borrowing agreements, without knowing it. Investors who have remained loyal to Irish shares will be questioning that loyalty as they analyse the performance statistics for the second quarter of 2000. Over this quarter the ISEQ index fell by 13.5 per cent, making it by far the worst performing market in Europe. Unpublished letters and scripts belonging to leading figures of the film and theatre world can be worth thousands of pounds, writes Joe Armstrong . At least that's what the financial websites and stockbrokers would have you believe, reports Margaret E. Ward.