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Regulator’s report also suggests State is struggling to rein in emissions from agriculture or get the necessary uptake in electric vehicles

Increase in domestic card spending could be attributable to Black Friday effect and early Christmas shopping

Labour Force Survey data suggests job switching is ‘important mechanism for wage growth’, especially in tight labour markets

Regulator also claims Government should be diverting more of these receipts into State’s two long-term savings funds

Little change in savings rates, monthly survey shows, while rates on non-mortgage borrowing jumped

Banks are the dominant player in borrowing but non-banks are big for businesses and credit unions are most popular for personal loans

Charging of annual interest rates higher than 23% was outlawed in 2022 legislation

Deposit accounts with agreed maturity of up to two years have increased by €7.9bn over the year to the end of October

BlueSnap ‘exposed its customers to significant risk’ by failing to deposit their funds in its designated safeguarding account

Central Bank governor insists he is ‘chilled’ on inflation reaching 2% target

Landmark court of appeal ruling piles pressure on UK regulator to impose large compensation scheme on lenders

Central Bank statistics show card payments overall declined in September compared to August, but contactless and NFC transactions have surged over past year

Deposit accounts with agreed maturity of up to two years have increased by €8.3bn in the year to the end of September

Motor insurance sector would have made a loss in 2023 had reserves not been released

To build 50,000 houses a year residential developers need a more diverse capital structure

Q&A: Man inheriting from parents worries about outstanding debt relating to vehicles seized during the post-financial crash slump

With climate change driving concerns, a report estimates losses from a quarter-of-a-century flooding event would top €510m

This kind of house is attracting bids both from those seeking to move and from first-time buyers

It is ‘extraordinary that arrears are running at such a high level 15 years after the crash’

‘Complacency must be avoided’ as flooding risk grows due to climate change

Gabriel Makhlouf assures Oireachtas committee he will examine options on bond issue authorisations

Budget 2025 marked the fourth straight year in which spending will breach the 5% growth rule set by Government

Tech firm tightening rules in effort to improve fraud prevention

Regulator has provided exchange service since switch to the euro two decades ago

The projected €10 billion plus package of permanent and temporary measures is expected to put up to €1,000 in the pocket of the average worker

Deadline for consensus on OECD plans for taxing of multinationals has come and gone

Just 39% of residential mortgage accounts in arrears in June held by banks, with the rest held by non-bank entities, Central Bank says

Central Bank warns further fiscal stimulus would boost inflation

Central Bank becomes latest to call for 50,000-plus homes a year

Central Bank data shows increased spending in airports and outside Ireland

Mortgage lending jumped 10% across the Irish League of Credit Unions’ membership base in the third quarter

Banks are getting 3.75% on your savings with the Central Bank and paying you an average of 0.13% in a demand deposit account

Seen and Heard: AIB and Bank of Ireland dividends; Cairn Homes deal in Bray; investment giants pushback against the Central Bank; Paddy Power racing remarks

Largest general insurer in the Republic acquired the second largest player in health cover market last year in €650m deal

Sector says overly aggressive action could prompt shift of financial assets into unregulated vehicles

Summer school told ‘very low or no tax rates on low income’ is a policy choice that would be very difficult to reverse

Car insurance premiums have increased by more than 8% in the past year, CSO figures show

Over more than a decade, the regulator has received 50,000 applications to approve individuals for key positions, approving 11,000 in the past four years alone

Central Bank’s latest retail interest rate figures show fixed-rate contracts constitued two thirds of mortgage contracts agreed in May

The study from Indeed and the Central Bank of Ireland shows wages remain higher than the pre-pandemic average of 2.5 per cent in 2019