Ireland has a fight on its hands to attract headquarters of Europe’s new financial crime watchdog

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Bagging the EU’s new financial crime watchdog is likely to be a tougher task now than it was in 2017, as the Government grapples with a dire housing crisis and a trickier approval process in Brussels. Six years ago, Dublin narrowly lost out to Paris in a race to secure the EU’s banking regulator post-Brexit, after dropping its bid to lure the medicines agency away from London. This time around, the Government is again facing off against the French capital, as well as major financial centres Frankfurt and Luxembourg and six other countries: Spain, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Latvia and Lithuania....