European Banking Authority (EBA)

EU bank watchdog may need to revisit payment breaks

Further economic decline due to Covid-19 could warrant loan flexibility, ECB says

Banks urge borrowers facing hit from new restrictions to engage

Lenders no longer offering general payment breaks but treating customers on case-by-case basis

Irish borrowers secured second-highest payment breaks in Europe

Over 13% of Irish loans to households and businesses were subject to payment freezes

Borrowers return to normal loan repayments after Covid breaks

Agenda: ‘Unemployment is a lagging indicator in any recession because businesses will hang on for as long as they can before failing’

State ‘should bail out’ distressed homeowners

Call comes ahead of Government meeting with banks on extending mortgage breaks

State 'should bail out’ troubled homeowners with mortgage assistance payment

Call comes ahead of Government meeting with banks to discuss extension of Covid related mortgage breaks

Banks face ‘hectic’ loan restructuring as payment breaks end, Goodbody warns

Central Bank says there are 90,539 active payment breaks across Irish households

EU watchdog calls for end to Covid loan payment breaks

European Banking Authority says banks should return to offering relief on a ‘case-by-case’ basis

EU watchdog tells British banks to get ready for full Brexit

Warning no mechanism in place for direct EU access in deposits or loans at end of 2020

Banks are right to charge interest on mortgages with Covid payment breaks

Opinion: Government should focus on mortgage rates as Irish borrowers pay €300 more a month than the rest of the euro zone

State-guaranteed SME loans to be below market rates, Tánaiste says

Varadkar, Donohoe and McGrath meet AIB, Bank of Ireland and Ulster Bank chiefs

Banks will be judged less on payment breaks and more on next step

Joe Brennan: Interest rate row far cry from banks’ initial chance to be good guy in crisis

Covid-19 crisis triggers payment breaks on 28% of SME borrowing

Central Bank data shows almost 10% of Irish mortgage debt also subject to relief

Banks to keep charging interest on loans subject to Covid-19 payment break

Industry body denies banks misled government over accrual of interest on paused loans

Banks should not profit from mortgage payment break schemes, warns Taoiseach

Micheál Martin says Minister for Finance will be raising the issue with the banks

Banks charging interest on payment holiday loans undermined by EU guidance

Not applying interest for six months during Covid-19 payment holiday could cost banks up to €150m

Central Bank considers legal action over Covid-19 insurance cover

Four test cases being taken against FBD

Irish woman named first female head of top EU medicines agency

Emer Cooke to lead EMA at crucial time for the body due to Covid-19 pandemic

Lenders must engage ‘sympathetically’ with borrowers in difficulty, says Central Bank

Derville Rowland says regulatory focus remains unchanged

Covid-19 mortgage breaks: What’s the catch?

Emergency deferral of payments will add to the total cost of a loan

President says banks are ‘big gap’ in collective effort to survive Covid-19 crisis

Banking sector should help businesses with short term liquidity problems, Higgins says

Mortgage payment-break numbers rise to 78,000

Total of 140,000 mortgage, personal and business loans now paused temporarily

Central Bank faces calls to further delay new rules on online payments

Slow move to Strong Consumer Authentication on fears of Covid-19 ecommerce impact

EU offers banks relief on bad loans rules amid Covid-19

Banks have already announced billions of euros of bad debt charges

ECB pushes for euro zone bad bank to clean up soured loans

Move is expected to be resisted in some quarters as it breaches state aid rules

Covid mortgage payment breaks may be extended to six months

Bankers’ lobby in talks with Central Bank about longer payment breaks

Banks shares pricing in worst case scenario of €6bn in stress test losses – analysts

European Banking Authority defers examinations to 2021

Coronavirus: Banks agree mortgage breaks and repossession deferrals

Minister calls for contactless payment threshold to be raised from €30 to €50

Crisis-era tools to bring relief for banks in France, Italy and Germany

Economic upheaval could hardly have come at a worse time for banks

Donohoe to meet bank chiefs as Covid-19 crisis deepens

Minister will be updated on measures taken by lenders in the past week to combat crisis

‘The only time apartments were viable was in . . . Ballsbridge, Killiney and Dalkey’

Pat Farrell is putting lobbying skills to use representing institutional property investors

Bank’s planning of bonuses smacks of fantasy

Bank of Ireland chairman Patrick Kennedy highlights that its goal is to introduce a bonus policy consistent with EBA guidelines

EU banking watchdog describes rejection of Cross nomination as ‘unfortunate’

European Banking Authority chairman says regulator caught in spat with parliament

MEPs reject Central Bank’s Gerry Cross for key banking role

Irish banker’s past work as banking sector lobbyist cited by those voting down nomination

Central Bank director nominated for number two role at EU regulator

Gerry Cross has been nominated to join the European Banking Authority as its executive director

Some 28 bankers in Ireland earning €1m or more

Figures cover those working at foreign owned institutions, rather than Irish banks

Government officials raise concerns about Facebook cryptocurrency

Department of Finance working group has a list of reservations about Libra

Regulator gives businesses more time to comply with new ecommerce rules

Banking sector welcomes deadline extension for roll-out of online payments changes

Ban on bank bonuses works against hunt for Brexodus jobs

Toxic legacies of crash and tracker-mortgage scandal have yet to dissipate

Bank of Ireland gears up to refinance €375m of problem loans

Bank has mandated Lloyds and Morgan Stanley to find investors for securitisation

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