Banking Donohoe asked to consider subsidies to keep bank branches openThe Minister for Finance last month chaired a discussion in Tullamore, Co Offaly on the future of retail banking in Ireland, at which the suggestion was made by participants
Banking State to sell further 5 per cent of its AIB shareholding Overall size of the state’s shareholding will be reduced from 68.5 per cent to 63.5 per cent
Business Post's View Editorial: Questions remain for Central Bank over AIB tracker scandalThe tracker mortgage controversy has exposed the rotten culture that pervaded the bank’s entire organisation
Central Bank ‘very satisfied’ with handling of tracker mortgage scandalRegulator’s financial conduct head is confident it discharged its public accountability mandate and enforcement of cases
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Banking AIB fined a record €83.3m for its role in tracker scandal Bank’s EBS subsidiary sanctioned a further €13.4m after almost 13,000 customers were wrongly denied cheap tracker mortgages
Banks’ recovery since bailout leaves shortfall of €9.6 billion Even if all the state’s remaining shares were sold off today, taxpayers would still be €4.5 billion shy on their crisis-era bank investments
AIB to exempt all non-profits from negative interest chargesThe bank is broadening the range of eligible bodies ahead of imposing the rate on personal customers with balances of more than €1 million
Stung Belfry investors consider Ombudsman complaintsAIB’s €75 million redress scheme has caused confusion and anger due to long delays and its lack of clarity
AIB on ‘heightened alert’ against Russian cyber threats Irish banks working with National Cyber Security Centre amid fears of attacks
BoI boss says pay and bonus caps are now ‘out of step with reality’Francesca McDonagh said continuance of crisis-era restrictions meant banks had to compete for staff ‘with one arm tied behind their back’
Ian Guider: Big three banks sitting pretty as they wait for new customers to come callingThe departure of KBC and Ulster will release a lucrative abundance of personal account and business customers for the remaining three banks to divvy up
AIB ready to move quickly if given go-ahead for buyback of part of government’s stake in bankChief executive Colin Hunt said deal is ultimately a decision for the Minister for Finance
Irish banks ‘hit harder’ by Covid than others in EuropeStudy analysing financial performance of 123 banks across Europe found Irish banks had negative return on equity significantly below the European average
Solicitors’ accounts should be exempt from increased negative interest rates, Law Society saysAIB this week announced it is raising negative interest rates on business accounts
Consumer watchdog to launch full investigation into AIB-Ulster Bank loan dealAIB agreed to acquire €4.2 billion worth of performing business loans from Ulster Bank in June
Peter O’Dwyer: Why BoI sell-off was the template for state reducing its AIB stake Finance minister Paschal Donohoe may be tempted to launch a more ambitious sale of AIB shares in the new year
And then there were three: core banks look to the future after an eventful 2021From the departures of Ulster Bank and KBC to the opportunistic acquisition of Davy Stockbrokers by Bank of Ireland, it was a year of twists and turns in the Irish banking sector
Donohoe announces plan to reduce State-owned stake in AIBBank of America’s Merrill Lynch International unit has been hired to carry out ‘a measured and orderly sell down of shares’
Ian Guider: A banking duopoly would be as bad for Ireland’s interests as a limit of two supermarketsWe can’t afford to lose any more banks, so let’s revisit the idea of local banking or make the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland a standalone entity