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Over the course of 160 years, Ulster Bank grew from a small regional presence to being a major property lender in the Celtic Tiger boom years
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Bank’s UK parent looking to reduce its costs and improve capital efficiency
Move could end a costly seven-year process by RBS to offload the small business lender
Former AIB chief insists pay was not an issue in taking helm at CYBG for salary of £1m
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Cabinet expected to ‘broadly accept’ Bill to cut term to 12 months
Move by parent RBS results in NI business reporting to UK division
RBS owned bank says improving economy will lead to further impairment releases
Stephen Bell believed to have thrown hat in ring to replace Jim Brown as chief executive
Banks set for collision course with Government over mortgage rates
Bank made an operating profit of €752m last year
Maeve McMahon will report directly to Ulster chief executive Jim Brown
New measures will bring ‘significant challenges’ for lenders’ systems and processes
Report says bank tried to manage indebted commercial customers through recession
The bounce-back in spending will allow the bank to issue more credit cards and personal loans
CEO David Duffy says equity sale and dividends could permit return by 2024
AIB and Ulster Bank appeared before no more than one or two committee members at times
Breakdown in 2012 left 600,000 deprived of basic services over 28-day period
CEO Jim Brown says bank plans to lend more via credit cards and personal loans
Bank reports operating profit of £394m (€485m) for the three months to September
‘We are seeing a path for Ireland and what we do with that business, which is positive,’ says CEO
Clearer picture should emerge when RBS publishes its third quarter results on October 31st
A recommendation will be made to the UK bank’s executive committee shortly
Bank reports operating profit of £55 million (€67m) in the first half of the year as impairment losses fall
Ulster Bank is preparing to sell €800m of commercial real estate loans, according to sources
Ulster Bank in the North to forge closer ties with RBS in Britain
Institute of Bankers say numbers are rising for degree and masters courses
Bank also records €21 million operating profit, its first operating profit since 2009
Level of equity developers could put into schemes an issue, says chief executive
Banks told committee how they were addressing the 31,000 mortgage arrears accounts
Writing down debt for customers in arrears not an ‘appropriate solution’, says Jim Brown
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Noonan has revived the idea to challenge dominance of AIB and BoI
Ulster Bank chief confirms 1,000 jobs and 39 branches to go
Chief executive Jim Brown is confident the bank will be back in the black in 2014 and is open to discussions about plans for a ‘third force’
Bank stopped short of revealing the final shape of business in the Republic
Bank’s operating loss rose by 40% in 2013 to £1.5 billion due to higher loan impairments
Figure includes £2.2bn charge for transfer of £9bn in assets moved to RBS bad bank
TD tells House of Commons committee bank is ‘playing games’ with regulators over debtors
Bank chiefs are due to appear at Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
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