Ardagh slides into €685m loss amid charge against US glass business

Cyberattack that forced temporary systems shutdown cost $5m after insurance cover

Amryt prepares share buyback amid €110m debt refinancing

Dublin-based biopharma group says most of the funds to be used to repay existing loan

Corporate law shake-up as international legal eagles swoop on Ireland

Secrecy on fees survives for now but diversity beckons in post-Brexit blitz by top firms

KPMG and Deloitte ‘corporate undertakers’ make their move as Irish businesses face triple threat

Joe Brennan: Might upcoming wave of troubled companies be handled differently to the post-crash victims?

Rent inflation, resurgent consumer spending and cryptocurrencies

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‘Reforms to bring down insurance costs will take time to filter through’

Dubliner who never imagined working in insurance is now heading up Arachas – and he’s on an acquisition hunt

Irish bond prices move, Web Summit claims, and good riddance to restrictions

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Grid Finance names former top Department of Finance official John Moran as chairman

Company advances cash to micro and small businesses

Irish funds services firm Carne to buy WTW unit

Deal sees investment platform take ‘minority stake’ in Dublin firm

Will Covid go endemic? Wall Street is ready but the WHO is not so sure

Market Beat: Policy-makers face difficult choices as they track the path of the virus

Grafton raises 2021 profit forecast for second time in two months

Owner of Woodies DIY now expects to post an operating profit of £276.3m

Irish banking in 2022: retrenchment, reviews, retribution… and rates

Stock investors bet retreat of Ulster Bank and KBC will give surviving banks a fighting chance

The A to Z of financial markets in 2021

Apple soared and Zoom slumped in a year that saw markets surge to record levels

Credit unions lobby for co-lending amid Government review

Submission proposes that the sector be able to lend in groups on larger transactions

Insurers claim spike in PIAB award rejections limit premium cuts

Number of challenges to laws underpinning award guidelines have been launched

Credit union savings slow as households loosen purse strings, report finds

‘Credit unions remains heavily dependent on unsecured personal lending’

Travel stocks lead European markets lower amid heightened Omicron fears

Cautious approach spurred by impending policy decisions by central banks

First Citizen reports 2020 loss as it weighs mortgage market entry

Rival Dilosk sees consildated loans more than double to €566m, new figures show

Ulster Bank CEO says problem loans sale unlikely before 2023

Almost 300 Ulster Bank staff have left the exiting lender this year

Bank of Ireland fined €24.5m over IT flaws

Central Bank said IT service continuity provision was inadequate

Mazars partner Michael Tuohy fined over quality of Nama vehicle audit

Tuohy is third person fined by regulator since it took direct audit responsibility in 2016

AIB nears deal to sell £1bn British SME book to Allica Bank

Bank’s exit from market segment will save it an estimated €35m in coming years

Bank of Ireland corporate banking head Tom Hayes dies

Wexford native and bank veteran was member of group executive committee

Australian fintech EML confident regulator concerns can be resolved

Irish Central Bank concerned over how issues will be resolved at Irish-founded Prepaid Financial Services

Former colleagues and business figures attend Sean FitzPatrick’s funeral

‘Dad had a lot of professional highs and lows in his life’

Once more into the Covid breach as Coalition left with no easy choices

Insided Politics: ‘Grim’ the watchword in Government yesterday as Reid outlined risks

KBC books €319m charge for Irish exit plan

Charge includes €81m of staff restructuring costs and €170m of loan impairment charges

Warnings of market peak amid wave of ‘hot’ insurance broker deals

Consolidation at a tipping point amid surge in valuations, leading industry figure says

Seán FitzPatrick: Public opprobrium contrasts with praise over pre-Celtic Tiger role

Ex-Anglo Irish chief ‘unfairly vilified’ over financial collapse, say businesspeople

Campion Insurance to be sold to UK-based PIB Group for more than €70m

Deal is UK group’s third purchase of retail insurance broker this year in the Republic

Bumper tax receipts, AIB on track to pay dividend and low LPT returns

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Digicel’s ‘aggressive’ past limits debt ratings uplift, Fitch says

Company sells Pacific unit for €1.6bn

Irish Times journalists pick up 30 nominations in journalism awards

Awards are spread out over 14 categories

Custom House liquidator hopes court ruling will unlock payments

Former clients of failed investment firm await more than €12m in compensation

Ires shares drift as investors monitor Sinn Féin’s showing in the polls

Market Beat: Prime apartments in Dublin generate rent to deliver an investment yield of about 3.6%

Johnny Ronan secures injunction against Colony on Waterfront project

Joint venture partners in dispute over Colony’s $2.7bn sale of assets to Fortress

Ardagh Group sees more than 84% take-up of share swap offer

Swap will see group’s stake in Ardagh Metal Packaging fall to about 75% from 82%

Ardagh Group investors opt to swap shares into newly listed drinks cans unit

Exchange offer puts firm on track to see its stake in Ardagh Metal Packaging fall to 75%

Central Bank’s McEvoy to join US investments giant Pimco

Bank’s former director of consumer protection to take on senior position with company

Ardagh legacy investors eye slice of €252m special dividend

Dividend to be paid next month as company is delisted from New York Stock Exchange

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