Making It Work: Visa partnership boosts rollout of loyalty app
Belfast start-up LoyalBe’s platform allows smaller retailers to automatically award points and rewards to customers paying by card
Potential ‘wave of legal claims over mis-sold home loans’
A former senior banker is seeking compensation for people who were granted mortgages which were unsuitable to their financial needs
Revolut’s Irish-based company to oversee its European operation
Digital bank also woos Irish politicians with view to post-Brexit collaboration
N26 heads for 200,000 Irish customers with no office here
Despite a 50 per cent increase in Irish customers, German digital bank N26 has no plans to open an office here but will serve its customers from Berlin
Lack of regulation at fund management companies is ‘unacceptable’
Central Bank review raises serious concerns about the failure of many FMCs to implement rules for governance
Motor insurance firms ‘made profits of €130 million in 2018’
Compensation took up slightly more than 40 per cent of insurers’ total income, while brokers and lawyers also earned millions in commissions and fees
US firm NFP plans to buy up more Irish insurance brokers
NFP bought Dún Laoghaire firm HMP Insurance and Pension Advisers in August and is eyeing more Irish acquisitions as part of a ‘push into Europe’
Analysis: Society cannot function with a zombie financial system
As corporate debt multiplies and the pandemic continues, the repercussions could be dire and wide-ranging
Think tank warns that hiking cost of financing now is a risky business
The Tax Strategy Group says adopting the EU’s directive on interest limitation now hits companies already reeling from Brexit and Covid-19
Acorn parent harvests €13m dividend
Investment gains helped the Galway-based firm return to profit last year
Former FBD chief says small firms will always need insurers
Fiona Muldoon warns that whatever plan we have for getting through the winter pandemic must ‘keep the show on the road’ when it comes to the economy
Ulster Bank’s future hanging in the balance
It’s business as usual at the country’s third largest bank for now, but no one really knows whether NatWest Group will keep it open here - and customers are getting worried
KBC fined €18.3m for serious failures over tracker customers
Central Bank says impact of overcharging led to the loss of 66 properties, 11 of which were family homes
US short traders undermine Bank of Ireland stock
Two US hedge funds have scooped up 1.2 per cent of the bank’s shares at a value of €22 million
Avant’s low-rate mortgages could spell trouble for banking's big two
Forgoing cash-back gimmicks to concentrate on competitively priced loans, the new contender aims to make serious inroads into the mortgage market
Comment: Crunch time for central banks which must adjust to new realities
Monetary policymakers who are slow to address rapidly changing concerns such as environmental risks and wealth inequality will suffer reputational damage
Pandemic losses can have silver lining for sole traders too
It’s not just companies that can claim tax relief upfront due to the Covid-19 crisis, the self-employed can aid cashflow in this way too
Details of dual pricing probe to be announced soon
Pearse Doherty has branded the practice a “rip-off on a grand scale”
Mortgage-to-rent body raises €26m via immigrant investor scheme
I Care founder David Hall expects his charitable body to have acquired more than 500 homes by year’s end