Banking Davy has upped share price targets for AIB and PTSB - here’s why Stockbroker has offered upbeat assessment of lenders’ prospects ahead of half-year results
Banking S&P: Irish banks showing ‘positive’ trends but better cost efficiencies ‘critical’Global ratings house issues positive assessment of Irish banking sector but warns lenders over high cost base
Banking PTSB offloads non-performing loans to Mars Capital in bid to loosen balance sheetLender says sale of €348 million loans to credit servicing firm will free it up to offer €2 billion of lending into the Irish market
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Twelve key questions we need to ask about the banks we bailed outSimon Harris’s tough-guy act with the banks shouldn’t fool you. There are important issues to be considered about our main financial service providers
Banking PTSB announces executive team adjustmentsThe bank will create a new chief sustainability and corporate affairs officer role
Energy Pillar banks buy in to state low-cost retrofitting schemeWith credit unions set to sign up in the coming weeks, the scheme is expected to boost market competition
Banking How much will rate cuts hurt Ireland’s banks? We crunched the numbers to find outAIB, PTSB and Bank of Ireland have enjoyed supercharged profitability thanks to rate hikes imposed by the ECB over recent years
Banking Most Irish consumers against AI-generated financial advice New survey shows high demand among Irish consumers for human support in banking, despite most managing money virtually
Banking PTSB aims for bigger slice of SME market as rate cuts set to kickstart lending surgeBusiness banking chief Seán Farrell said the bank was ‘anxious’ to grow its share of the SME lending market beyond 10 per cent
SMEs ‘Go back to Richie and tell him that’s what we’re doing’: PTSB boss on Boucher’s SME lending adviceEamonn Crowley says PTSB wants 10% of new business lending market as bank beefs up SME and asset finance unit
Banking PTSB wants to reclaim 20% share of mortgage marketPTSB chief said the lender doesn’t have specific market share target, but said it is eyeing up between 18 and 20 per cent
Banking Probes, regulatory ‘surprise’ and board strife: How the banks’ Revolut competitor fell apartThe three pillar banks combined to take on their tech-savvy competitors but the project ultimately failed to come to fruition
The Week Ahead Week Ahead: AGM season continues for PTSB, HVivo, and Tullow OilYour guide to major events in the world of business coming up this week
Banking Analysis: ‘Not much fat’ on Irish banks but takeover appeal may still linger for right suitorThe European Central Bank has taken steps to remove obstacles of cross-border integration
Mortgages Analysis: Dip in PTSB’s share of mortgage lending has its roots in 2022 rate movesThe addition of new products to PTSB’s mortgage range should boost activity in the second half of 2024, according to Diarmaid Sheridan, an analyst with Davy
Banking PTSB reports 10% increase in net interest income, despite fall in new mortgage lendingPTSB held customer deposits of €23.3 billion in March – up €1 billion annually and €0.3 billion since December 2023
Banking Richie Boucher: Time for Irish banks to step up and replace Ulster Bank’s business lendingThe former Bank of Ireland chief executive said competition in the SME lending market should be much stronger
Banking Exclusive: Irish banks ‘attractive takeover targets’ for big European lendersIrish lenders’ price along with low levels of competition and a strong economy makes them attractive M&A targets
Business Post's View Editorial: Arrival of a new entrant to the banking sector for the first time in almost 20 years is good newsFor a country with one of the youngest and wealthiest workforces in Europe it has long been a source of curiosity why international retail banks are so put coming here
Banking Lorcan Allen: Bankinter has its work cut out to bring real competition to Ireland’s mortgage marketThe Spanish lender will need time to grow its market share in Ireland as it seeks to erode the dominance of the two big pillar banks