ONE MORE THING:ROYAL BANK of Scotland has extended to mid-September the deadline for first- round bids for its Dublin-based aircraft- leasing division. The original deadline was yesterday.
A number of parties have expressed an interest. Analysts value the business at $6-$8 billion (€4.2-€5.6 billion). Any deal is set to take months to conclude.
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Latest accounts for the American Chamber of Commerce here show its surplus last year more than trebled to €69,895.
Members’ subscriptions rose to €709,450 in 2010 from €638,114 in the previous year. This was in spite of the number of members declining to 338 from 415.
The chamber said a restructuring meant that multinationals no longer had to have full membership for every entity or facility in Ireland.
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Mark Dawson has stepped down as a director with NCB’s wealth- management division to join listed company IFG, where he will establish a new asset management division.
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Joachim Hunold’s resignation from the top job at Air Berlin, amid mounting losses, has set tongues wagging as to whether Aer Lingus’s German chief executive Christoph Mueller (left) might get a tap on the shoulder.
Mueller was unhappy at Aer Lingus being saddled with a €29.5 million tax bill earlier this year from a botched leave-and-return scheme that pre-dated his arrival at Aer Lingus.
Might a return home to sort out Air Berlin interest him?
