Breaking through €1bn mark

In the first week of the year, Irish deposits at RaboDirect, an online savings and investment bank, topped €1 billion for the first time since it entered the Irish market less than two years ago. The Irish division of Europe’s largest online bank has almost 25,000 customers and recently appointed Wicklow woman Aoife Murphy as its investment marketing manager.

‘‘RaboDirect came onto the Irish market with a unique online investment offering, which is ...